Visitors to Gros Morne National Park, located on the west coast of Newfoundland, currently experience seasonal, infrastructural, and accessibility constraints in existing campgrounds. Through examining the tectonics of culturally significant boats related to Newfoundland fisheries, such as the Atlantic dory with its characteristic overlapping rib structures and flatboat bottoms, I developed an approach to creating basic shelters.

In recombining prefabricated structural elements, light, moveable, easy-to-transport, adaptable seasonal modular dwelling units are created to provide visitor access to the more remote scenic areas in the national park, allowing intimate and ecologically responsible connections between humans and the natural realm.