Through the Cracks: A New Home for Seahenge Part 2 Dissertation 2024 Thomas Conradie University of the Free State Bloemfontein | South Africa The story of Seahenge, the late Bronze Age artefact found outside the town of Holme- next-the-sea in 1999, remains unfinished. While its discovery and removal were highly contested and published, the public consciousness has since moved on. The circle of split timber log has since been studied, preserved and today exhibited in King’s Lynn. This project proposes that the remains of Seahenge returns to its original context, exhibited in the salt marsh it originally inhabited. Within the design process, considerations were made to create an atmosphere within which visitors may engage with Seahenge as it originally existed and not as archaeological artefact to be viewed through museum glass. While the building mass intruding on the sensitive salt marsh is reduced, care was also taken to minimise the impact of the construction process on the natural landscape through various methods of prefabrication and assembly of timber frames. The proposed design entails 4 pavilions raised above the landscape, connected by walkways to each other and a visitor centre proposed at the edge of the town. Thomas Conradie Tutor(s)Mr Jan Smit