1. Dean Village Wellbeing Centre

Wellbeing is not just for the ill. This project, completed during my undergraduate studies intended to act as an antithesis to the cold, often sterile and alienating government subsidised healthcare facilities. The project aimed to do this through use of natural light, passive ventilation and heating systems as well as through use of the tactility of its materials.

The project sits at the heart of the historic Dean Village site in Edinburgh, which offered a rich contextual palette to evoke and explore.

The building aims to create a front and back, spaces and thresholds public and private respectively. This is done through use of apertures and glazing, with the street presenting elevation acting as an austere, reserved point of entry and the rear of the building acting as an expansive oriel: opening toward the water of Leith.