the Scar
the Scar is a landscape intervention that explores the visual, ecological, and political impact of power lines in the Scottish Highlands. Situated north of Fort William, the project responds to the infrastructural scarring of the landscape, where high-voltage pylons carve corridors through native woodland, breaking the continuity in ecology, dwarfing its context and distorting the sightlines of the Highlands. The project frames these clearings as invasive spatial violence. Exploring the tectonics of pylons and their components, the intervention Kit-of-parts utilises steel lattice frames, tensile mesh, rammed earth, and quarried slate to convey architectural intent. These materials express both weight and dissonance, grounding the project in the physical logic of pylons while disrupting any illusion of harmony. The design introduces three interwoven paths, each with its own spatial logic, thus creating an experience of reflection, tension, and disorientation. This intervention hopes to make legible the neglected relationship between landscape and infrastructure. By choreographing unease and atmospheric awareness, the project invites visitors to reckon with the cost of progress… not through erasure, but through presence.
