1.1, 1.11 Conor Hacon, Y2 ‘Construction College, Glasgow’. A construction college in Glasgow’s East End, underneath an existing cattle shed. The project attempts to produce and communicate a reciprocity between three subjects – construction, care and the city – and is framed by the question: What reciprocal object-tools can manifest a complexity, enabling us to act out, physically and mentally, the larger patterns we are in a fold with? 1.2 Asya Peker, Y2 ‘The Govan Early Years Centre’. This building project forms part of scheme to rewild an abandoned graving dock, attempting to enable a sesnitive reframing of perceptions of the area as a place for young children and parents to engage with the with the natural world and their (post)industrial history. Providing care for children aged 18 months to five years in a fully accessible building, the designs make a virtue of a challenging site by employing multiple circulation routes including a 48-metre ramp, weaving between insulated and permeable spaces for learning and play. 1.3–1.6 Gabriel Healy, Y3 ‘Forest Living’. The project articulates a forestry/housing scheme that could be replicated on alternative sites, where local natural materials are used to construct communities. Postindustrial Glasgow has been subject to rushed decisions which have torn apart social fabrics. Informed by explorations in the art of joinery, the project promotes a more nurturing approach, where a community can develop organically through generations, encouraging a culture of environmental education centred on the inventive reuse of waste products. 1.7 Guiming He, Y2 ‘Botanic Laboratory and Garden at Cloch Point, Gourock’. A small-scale research hub for the University of Glasgow located 40km west of the city centre on the Upper Firth of Clyde. Functioning as a facility for testing different growing conditions for plants, with the aim of improving life and wellbeing in Glasgow, the project has been developed through aesthetic and strategic considerations, including the employment of lowembodied energy materials to minimise environmental impact in both a local and planetary sense. 1.8 Michael Rossiter, Y2 ‘2-8 Landressy Street’. This project is a pilot scheme for infill housing to be owned and managed by Hawthorn Housing Co-operative as it expands to the east of the city, using vacant or derelict land (VDL) to redensify east Glasgow. The proposal comprises six family homes with kitchens overlooking a shared garden. The façades celebrate Bridgeton’s architectural history and the interiors are designed to be generous and legible. The project challenges UK housing standards and sets an example for urban redensification through the characterful development of VDL. 1.9–1.10 Rory Cariss, Y3 ‘Landressy Gardens: Social Co-Housing for Bridgeton’. This project consists of a social co-housing scheme and a series of communal infrastructures intended for use by both residents and the wider community. The scheme seeks to utilise shared resource as a means of encouraging social cohesion, and acknowledges the agency people deserve in relation to the physical fabric of their homes. Technologies used in its construction encourage and facilitate the easy maintenance and adaption of residences over time. 1.12 Angharad James, Y2 ‘How to be invisible: Rewilders’ Residence, Cowal Peninsula’. The proposal is framed by a wider speculative scheme: that the Scottish Government would endorse the rewilding of the West of Scotland in order to reduce carbon impact through the regeneration of the Caledonian Forest. The Cowal Peninsula, an hour west of Glasgow, would act as the pilot site. By translating the relationship with the landscape that rewilding promotes into a set of design principles, the project attempts to explore how architecture can embody wider ideas around ecology and land use. 38
1.14 Mabel McCabe, Y3 ‘Village for Children, Bridgeton’. Most cities are accidentally designed around adults. But what happens when you put children at the forefront? In tackling this question, the proposed housing scheme consists of multiple-sized apartments, employing playable thresholds and generous balconies, while also reproviding the functions of an existing single-use low-density medical centre and incorporating a large play space between blocks, allowing for parental oversight and vibrant connectivity to the adjacent highstreet. 1.12–13 Zeb Le Voi, Y2 ‘Parkhead Mental Health Centre’. The project propses a mental health clinic with onsite crisis housing for 16-25 year olds. Organised around two courtyards, the scheme offers an intermediate environment, bridging from a permeable street-side condition to a formal institution. The project seeks to address the treatment gap between diagnosis and hospital inpatient care or medication, and attempts to open up awareness of mental illness and wellness for those undiagnosed within the community. The design is informed by Stefan Linden’s thesis ‘Healing Architecture’ whereby the building should promote and encourage social interaction, normality and dignity within a free and open atmosphere. 1.15 Rhiannon Howes, Y2 ‘Horticultural Therapy Centre at Barmulloch, Glasgow’. In the context of post-industrial north Glasgow, the project proposes a horticultural therapy centre that contributes to the rewilding of Barmulloch’s brownfield sites – providing healing for both the people and the land. Inspired by the threshold of the walled garden, the project blends built and natural in a series of spaces that guides the healing process, easing patients into the surrounding landscape by gradually re-orientating according to its features. 1.16–1.18 Ellen Nankivell, Y3 Migrating/Making Ground: A New Settlement for a Flood Risk Community.’ The proposal is framed by the brief, whereby a radical new Scottish government takes a long-term approach to anthropocenic induced flooding. Within the first five years of a 100-year timeframe, a new settlement is built to stimulate the migration of a threatened low-lying community away from the ever-rising waters on the Firth of Clyde. The pilot site acts as a prototype or springboard for future settlement, utilising adaptable timber spaces and landscaping for water management, exploring how architecture in an age of climate change can withstand, embrace and enable changes to unfold through time. 1.19–20 Samuel Dodgshon, Y3 ‘The Charing Cross Theatre’. The project examines the M8 urban motorway in Glasgow, exploring its environmental impacts and planning its effective closure. Within this framework, the Charing Cross Theatre develops a precedent for how a set of closed motorway cuttings and flyovers in central Glasgow could be physically recycled and tied back to the city in cultural, programmatic and spatial terms. 1.21–1.23 Thomas Richardson, Y3 ‘Bridgeton: An Urban Agricultural Community’. Bridgeton, in Glasgow’s East End, is a ‘food desert’ and suffers from high unemployment, low life expectancy and a lack of essential community services. The project envisions a community-led agricultural transformation of the area, through the introduction of farming to low-density, car-dependent housing estates, offering employment, reducing food poverty, and improving biodiversity through stewardship of the land. Key to residents’ essential agency in this process will be the development of skills in farming, food preparation and construction. ‘Phase 1’ focuses on the construction of a new market, bakery and mill within a former shopping parade, seeding the wider regeneration of the area’s neglected high street. The transition sees Main Street as the new centre for community life: offering a space for industry, education and exchange.