Greenpeace Airplot

In 2009 the Government announced that there were to be plans to build a thrid runway at Heathrow airport. Just two days before this, Greenpeace had bought a plot of land right in the middle of the proposed runway site. The airport expansion means the destruction of the entire village of Sipson, which lies just north of the current runways at Heathrow, along with many more losses & environmental issues.
Greenpeace have released an open ideas competition to architects, landscape architects, engineers, artists & architectural students to help fortify the Airplot site & aim to prevent expansion of the airport.

As our Semester 2 project we are complying to the Greenpeace brief to create a 'fortress' on the Airplot site. You must design a structure, or landscape, or anything really that will withstand pressure from airport security, police & anyone else that tries to stop Greenpeace from protesting against the expansion, & that allows dozens of protesters to live on site for a series of weeks. I have looked into the defensive systems that occur in nature; from animals nests/habitats to carnivorous plants. Below are some images of natures defenses that gave me inspiration for this project.