The Village: Notes on the Neolithic

Maintaining that the experience of time passing is fundamental to human existence and therefore inseparable from architecture, Unit K aims to create clearly defined spatial arrangements that have the capacity to enrich the monumental depth of the practice of everyday life. Our main narrative and investigative tool is film, with its unique ability to capture, resequence and recreate time, space and experience.

Avebury is a village in Wiltshire, England, half enclosed into Avebury Henge, the largest Neolithic stone circle in the world. Avebury’s unique notion of time comes from layers of history and relationships between structures built by humans millennia apart and landscape’s evolving topography, geology and climate. Today, reflected in buildings, landscape and socio-political relations, the complex nature of this settlement will be a fascinating terrain for a cinematic architecture of the landscape.