The ambition of the project is to propose a spatial intervention (mental health centre) that interogates the relationship between culture, nature, healing, and rewilding by engaging with the cultural, historical, and environmental narratives of the place. This involves bringing back the concept of slave trade through the use of copper and fabric whilst integrating certain textures and patterns that exist in Temple church gardens. As well as creating a structure that provides certain facilities for patients, the ecotherapy garden would be design to include plants, senses, and water that have a healing effect on those suffering with mental health.

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Through respecting, researching, and responding to the sites heritage, the vision of the church is to provide a public space & ecotherapy garden that is freely inhabitable alongside private mental health facilities where people can seek help. The project will address how the site will remain functional, whilst taking into consideration how the experience of spaces differs throughout the season. Given the increasing statistics of young adults seeking help regarding mental health, Bristol’s Temple church can serve as a safe haven over a proposed 10-year period.