Upstream Part 1 Project 2025 Nathan Dixon Lancaster University | UK The threshold of the Brathey, Upstream is a centre for watercraft, repair, and material re-use. Positioned at the water’s edge in Skelwith Bridge in the Lake District, it is a site of making, a site of passage, and a site of reuse. A kayak’s repair and reuse, and the layered journey from river to workshop embody craft as it moves upstream, against the current of waste and toward renewal.The project acknowledges the area’s historic relationship with boat building and river use, and proposes an architecture that engages with sustainability, flow, and tradition. The old mill is retrofit as a plastic processing workshop and adapted to reuse materials for circular production. South of the mill, the new-build watercraft centre opens to the river, enabling kayak manufacture, repair, and reuse through contemporary craft. Beyond its productive function, the site becomes a vessel for experience and interaction. Set between the sloping terraces and the flowing river, a responsive intervention of movement and reuse.As water flows past and visitors move through, Upstream establishes an architectural rhythm of making and unmaking, linking craft to current, and community to the river. Tutor(s)