Architects Matthew Butcher, Kieran Wardle and Owain Williams have built a factory-inspired mobile structure that will travel along Hadrian's Wall in northern England to provide a temporary residency for writers (+ slideshow).

The unusual structure consists of a streel frame clad in panels of translucent polycarbonate, and features a dysfunctional chimney stack and a set of fin-like shutters ? all references to the region's industrial architecture.
It is set to travel to several archaeological locations along Hadrian's Wall, a crumbling fortress that once marked the northern border of the Roman empire.

London-based architects Butcher, Wardle and Williams named the structure The Mansio, after the roadside teahouses and meeting spots constructed along Roman roads. They describe it as a "mobile ruin".
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"There are two main references for the structure. The first are the industrial architectures seen in the northeast and northwest of England, both operational and in ruin," Butcher told Dezeen.
"These architectures and environments are what The Mansio will be travelling through, and past, as it moves from destination to destination along Hadrian's wall."

"The second is the idea of a structure as a signpost or marker in the landscape, one that can be seen from a distance," he added. "In this way it is intended to function in a similar way to how a Rom...