A Controlled Retreat: A Fusion of Metabolizing Structures Breaking the Mould in Landscape’s Transformation Part 2 Project 2024 Georgina Cameron University of Plymouth | UK A new understanding of working landscape, envisioned as a site of both production and consumption, proposes a brief recognising the motion of territories, engaging with dialogic forces, and embracing impermanence. It envisions the River Plym as an instrumentalised landscape shaped by ritualised movements. Co-joining economic production with cultural heritage, it utilises urban skin grafts concurrent with controlled retreat from sea level rise aim, reshaping the landscape socially, economically, and culturally while critically challenging hegemonic economic forces and so confronting landscape commercialisation and exploitation. The Urban Skin Graft repairs through bioengineered transformations, healing disparate forces and fostering sustainable mutual growth, offering an insight into tackling global challenges. The productive programmes become catalysts, metabolizing landscape growth for a long-term vision of a transformative future. The developed design praxis embodies fragile architecture—responsive to real sensory interaction rather than idealised perception, thus enabling resilience in a 2054-based context of change. How do we deal with change? Conventional building methods often overlook rhythmic change patterns, whereas fragile architecture can adapt through its layered nature. This approach promotes agility in working with earth's transformation. The Controlled Retreat becomes an acceptance of change within this reimagined landscape of a more productive future. Tutor(s)