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Bervie Brow Research Station & Reserve is a locus solus in north-east Scotland, taking its name from the high coastal promontory on which it stands. The Station's 28-acre site fuses a dramatic landscape with Cold War archaeology. As well as being a private residency, it is an artist's project with creative, educational, and environmental purposes.
'Deep-field research stations as a spatial type can be understood as remote sites of institutional living-working, temporary community, proximity to nature, and physical refuge in a landscape. They are often positioned geographically and conceptually on a frontier. In the polar regions, for instance, stations evolved through the twentieth century from simple wooden huts to sleek sci-fi styled architecture.' [L. 5. 1, p.14] The Station at Bervie Brow first opened in 1953 as a Royal Air Force technical site for radar, part of the UK's early-warning system against the threat of atomic attack. A decade later the installation was repurposed by the US Naval Security Group for signals intelligence and communications, annexed to RAF Edzell. In the latter part of the Cold War, the Station functioned as an emergency communications centre for the British Armed Forces. It was closed and sold by the Ministry of Defence in 1999.
The Station is available for professional filming/photography.
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