Eyes Wide sHut - 21st Century Beach Hut
Location: Mablethorpe, South Promenade, Lincs
Status: Winning Competition Entry Completed September 2007
Client: Lincolnshire District Council
Contract Value: £25,000
Feix&Merlin have won the Bathing Beauties competition 'Re-Imagining the Beach Hut for the 21st Century' The winning design 'Eyes Wide sHut' is one of four beach hut designs that will be built over the next year.
The seaside is all about taking in the views, the great expanse of the beach, the sea and the horizon; capturing these images and framing them in the minds eye and recording them to memory.
Eyes Wide sHut features two ornate picture frames, one to the front and one to the rear. These frames carry floor-to-ceiling mirrored polycarbonate panels reflecting the view of the beach and the town back on itself as if someone had taken a picture and put it in the frame. The one-way mirrors allow a perfectly transparent and unobstructed view out from the inside, but seen from outside they are reflective and leave passers-by wondering what is going on inside.
“Oooh you could get up to all sorts in there”.