Designer Giles Miller worked alongside visualiser Forbes Massie to create this concept for a public artwork clad in moveable slate shingles.
The conceptual Conduit project sees a cone-shaped wooden structure covered in hundreds of slate shingles backed with plywood.
Towards the front of the structure, the shingles are designed to be moveable. This would allow visitors to manipulate its surface ? opening up the panels to bring light into the installation or closing them to create a cocooned hideaway.

London-based Miller describes the installation as an "experiment in space definition", likening its ability to change to a flock of migrating birds or the "ebb of a changing tide".
"As our studio continues to conflate the practices of sculpture and architecture, we are finding that artistic conception can often give rise to functional outcomes," he said. "Our primary interest is in the relationship between light and geometry, and in this context Conduit is an experiment in space definition," continued Miller.

Inside the structure, a dry stone wall seat would offer visitors a place of rest. The would be encouraged to engrave messages on the slate backing ? leaving behind messages for visitors yet to come.
"We want to ask how an artwork can celebrate the connection between the people who will live with it and the landscape that will become its home," said Miller.
"Local residents have the opportunity to engrave messages and...