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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 was built as a Royal Air Force technical site for secret signals intelligence, first becoming operational in 1953 as part of the UK's early-warning radar network against the threat of atomic attack. Later, the installation was repurposed as a listening station for US Naval cryptologists and latterly as an emergency communications centre for the British Army. It was closed and sold by the Ministry of Defence in 1999.
The Station is available for professional filming/photography.
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