AD: Ghost Stories: Architecture and the Intangible

Designing Absence: The Invisible Bridge and the Ghost Barn by Ian Ritchie features in Architectural Design: Volume 94, Issue 4 Ghost Stories: Architecture and the Intangible July/August 2024
Issue Edited by: Peter J Baldwin

Straddling the fine line between architecture and art, London-based architects ritchie*studio have designed an Invisible Bridge and a Ghost Barn on a private, historic and protected estate in Hampshire, Southeast England. These delicate propositions juggle presence and absence informed by the site’s history, by poetry, Charles Darwin, local flint and an intelligent and thoughtful client. Ian Ritchie writes about the concepts for these two interventions and their associated inspirational narratives.