Written on Stone: A geological archive Part 1 Project 2025 Harriet Nixon Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | UK Written on Stone is a geological archive and public fossil workshop, housed within the former Madras College in St Andrews. It was designed to create a space for learning, observation and participation. The archive does so slowly, through atmosphere, texture, and time. The building is tuned to its contents - cooled for the fossils it houses. Fossil drawers open with weight; shale is split to reveal organisms never seen by human eyes, the echo of each tap of a hammer held in the architecture.The design draws from research into the geology of Fife and the work of geologist Charles Lapworth, who taught us to read history through stones strata. The building is designed to be uncovered. Surfaces are left exposed, materials chosen to age and return to the landscape. Inclusivity is embedded through feeling: light levels guide, textures orient, sound helps situate. There are no glass barriers between the visitor and the object - fossils are handled, studied, shared.In a town shaped by scholarship, the project offers a quiet continuation of that legacy. It is a place for observation, care, and return. Not a monument, but a ground for gathering - attentive to the rhythms beneath our feet. Tutor(s) Victoria Clare Bernie Adrian Hawker