This project is an experiment in isolated communal living. Originally spurred by a call for proposals for offshore prison designs. We discarded this dystopian concept. Instead, we designed a monastery. A voluntary, self-sufficient, retreat from the world. A stationary ship, like an oil platform for living. Built of timber with a communal workshop, greenhouse, kitchen, and gathering space. We took inspiration from Bentham’s Panopticon prison design, but inverted it. Monks’ cells, rather than being on view for a centralized authority, were themselves placed in the central viewing position, collectively looking out on the communal life of the vessel.