To create a destination, the building itself becomes a journey. The translucent principle room uses light and activity to become a “way-finder”, which highlights the church spire as an existing navigation point. Circulation rises from the site’s natural slope, circling and aspiring toward these. The proposal aims to counter fast tourism with a slow, secular form of “pilgrimage”.
Space is given to the permanent local population whilst the transient tourist population are encouraged to circle around and through, looking in and out.