Interscalar Fringes

Portsea Turton and Cat Brownell met as graduate students in urbanism at the Escola Técnica Superior de Arquitectura of Barcelona. With similar convictions about the role of design, the two make a well-balanced and passionate team that focuses on the joint vulnerabilities of society and ecology across scales. The team’s mission is to explore using these vulnerabilities as a nexus to project spatial evolutions, understandings, and transformations.
Portsea Turton graduated from Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane with a Bachelor of Design in Architecture and minor in Landscape Architecture and Universitat Internacional de Catalunya with a Masters in Urban Design for Healthy Cities, and will graduate from the ETSAB with a Masters of Architecture in Urbanism in February of 2027. She is interested in the interface of ecological and human behaviors in hinterland environments, stemming from her upbringing in coastal Australia. She explores these perspectives through cartography, art, and photography, often blending different scales, and research methodologies to distill ideas into an interdisciplinary language.
Cat Brownell graduated from Northeastern University in Boston with a Bachelor of Science in Architecture and minor in Urban Landscape Studies with Honors in the Discipline and the ETSAB with a Masters of Architecture in Urbanism. Cat has a fascination with how individual and community identity manifest in urban environments. With experience in non-profit and community design, she pursues grassroots movements in architecture and urbanism, exploring alternative forms of spatial inhabitation and representation.