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The Expressive Corner

A hybrid performance centre

1) The plot is 1025 sqm located along the Albert drive situated in the corner of the Glenapp street adjacent to it, The victorian garden allotments are on the north face of the site and Albert drive is located on the south. The Existing building is G+1 and is being demolished and the debris collected will be used as aggregates and to build the wall towards the entrance of the Victorian garden allotments.

2) The site is being expanded to incorporate activities in the built space, it takes over the victorian allotments partially to create a connection between the albert drive and victorian gardens at the back to create a free flowing spaces and remove the cul-de-sac.

3) The performance space will act as a hybrid workshop and theatre studios by reducing the Width of the Glenapp street wasted space for vehicular parking will be eliminated and provide usable activities for local markets, outdoor drama events, gardening workshops acting as a public plaza. The bustling albert drive will be sized down to reduce the vehicular movement and incorporate rain gardens along the Albert Drive and increase pedestrian movement.

4) The ground floor incorporates the assemble area, organisational spaces, cafe and bar spaces, The staircase in the center creates the dramatic effect of being visible even from the outside to shaowcase the dynamism of the space. The large theatre and small theatre spaces are on the higher floors with the large theatre studio having the background of the gardens and the smaller theatre facing the city scape creating 2 contrast of backgrounds for the theatre spaces.

gardens and the east gets the sunlight from and view of the church of scotland.

The incorporation of a cultural performance space to provide a free social and interaction zone for the diverse population existing in Pollokshields provides a good opportunity to have these spaces to better the solidarity and social interaction, especially in these times. Performance, art and culture are thriving scenarios and can be utilized to understand one another’s culture through these activities in the building space. The built space not only acts as a theatre or performance, but hybrid workshop spaces are set up to help people of Pollokshields to upskill themselves in drama, set design and other related activities as all over the world the power of drama and theatre can bring people together. To enhance the building the site provided the opportunity to create a plaza on Glenapp Street to eliminate the waste spaces which were utilized for parking. Converting the street into a social hub and creating a connection to the Victorian garden allotments behind could help improve the local business around the area by providing tours, and organizing workshops to help people understand growing their food and the power of self-sustaining especially with the cost-of-living crisis and supermarkets taking over the food industry. There are workshop spaces in the building providing direct access through Glenapp Street. The corner is providing a social interactive and entertainment zone that can convert Albert drive into a cultural street with the tramway being located along the same corridor making it a lively street. The whole neighbourhood lacks communal, or neighbourhood-level entertainment spaces and this corner could open-up to hybrid spaces like the performance centre. The site plan indicates the community buildings, green spaces and the site locations of the urban building and housing. The Victorian Garden allotments behind the urban building site are the biggest green scape in Pollokshields East. The urban housing is situated at the heart of the intersection where the east and west meet along Shields Road and Albert Drive. The St Albert’s church and Pollockshields catholic church is incidentally opposite to the urban building and housing sites making it a cross section of communal activity on either space on the ground floor creating public plazas and local markets. The Pollokshields Primary School being located on the Albert Drive provides an added feature to host art, cultural and drama/performance activities in the urban building, having a diverse population it will be critical for the young kids to understand one another’s culture through drama and performances providing an equal opportunity to create solidarity in the society and help to protect each other’s social and cultural beliefs making it an open society and developing one too.

Glenapp street

Existing condition of the

Albert Drive Existing condition

the Albert Drive Neighbourhood plan indicating site locations Heights of the Buildings around Pollockshields Neighbourhood Conceptual Design Strategy Sun-Path Analysis Urban Housing Urban Housing Urban Building Church Pollokshields Primary school Green scape areas Urban Building To include the context of the verticality observed bay windows and the openings of the tenement structures in the Albert drive and pollokshields region. To recreate these iconic windows as facade elements with the help of corten steel and also act as sun shades where the texture will showcase the rustic feel of the red and yellow sandstone tenements in the area. The outline dictates the busy facade and the angles formed by the bay windows. East facing elevation along the Public plaza and indicating the garden allotments Re-thinking of the urban street design Design Evolution Reducing the number of vehicular movement and parking on the streets took away the hierarchhy of the pedestrian and cyclists along the route, to ensure the pedestrian movement is prioritised. The idea of providing rain gardens and landscaping at the street edge is to reduce parking and flooding during rain or creating huge deep puddles that casue inconveineice to the pedestrians. There are various schemes that are being implemented to provide lanscaped street edges to the Albert drive. The

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Activities in the Built space

The ground floor has the organised service spaces like the cafe, ticketing booths, toilets and the hybrid workshop spaces that conducts gardening related and drama, set design related workshops in these spaces, The Glenapp street which is converted as a public plaza and a free flowing space between the bustling Albert drive and the pathway towards the victorian garden allotments.

The first floor consists of a learning centre for kids and adoloscents for the students of the pollokshields primary school and the rest of the schools around pollokshields, the learning room can be converted into an externsion of the exhibition space for local cultural, arts and performances. There is ascreen room along the corridor and the rehearsal space that is flexible to increase the size or reduce to accomodated to rehearsal studios for dance and drama practices, it can be rented out for the schools around the pollokshields region for multi-purpose rehearsals.

The second floor consists of the main studio or theatre spaces with different capacities, the large theatre accomodates 175 people and the small studio space accomodates 80 people. cultural dramas, school plays and performances can be held in these spaces of diverse cultures and dramas to help in underdtanding each others cultures in achieving strong solidarity in the community. The third floor accomodates library spaces to educate people more on cultures, dramas and create a comfortable and warm lounge space for the elderly too. The set design studio can be accessed by locals and the admistration to create a upskilling events and workshops to help in designing various sets based on the performances, and create an environment for pursuing a passion for set designing. The theatre spaces extends onto the third floor providing multi-floor entry and exit. The terrace floor is covered with a extensive green roof to keep the roof warm and cool during summers and winters, it will also help the birdlife around pollokshields access these roof and help wth rain water harvesting and filtering of the rain water to take it to the underground tank which can be used for the buiding or by the garden allotments.

Site plan Albert Drive Incorporation of Tenament Tenament Urban Community Victorian Garden St Albert’s Church

First Floor Plan Second Floor Plan Third Floor Plan Terrace Floor Plan Interior renders Axonometric of the Urban building

Skylight for the auditorium

4mm thk Corten steel cladded clt roof supported by 140x280mm glulam joists which are supporting the skylight in the centre in the auditorium space.

160mm thk CLT slab held together with steel sections and studs to to the castellated beams as primary beams. The clt slabs are fixed to the beams and columns with the help of metal brackets and screws. Plastering to protect it from moisture in the junctions of clt slabs and walls.

Stepped seating for auditorium done with 200mm CLT slab with RHS 300X300 below and supported by beams as secondary beams.

Fire escape staircase that consists of concrete core that supports the structure and is 300mm thick Steel I columns 305x305mm at 6x6m maximum span.

500x175mm Casellated beams.

Steel I section primary beams that are 200x500mm deep

300mm Concrete Base slab and foundations

Steel staircase with intumiscent coating for fire resistance

South facing elevation along the Albert Drive Construction details South facing facade As per the detail provided by the Sika website for the extensive green roof 1) a) The top layer is the for the vegeation and called as sedum layer which is min 50mm thick. b) The next layer is the stratum layer which consists of the earth to grow and that is 75mm thk (Min). c) The layers after the stratum are the rigid drainage and geo drainage layers to avoid the damage to roof slab is a combined 50mm thk. d) There is the air, water membrane in between these layers with the protection fleece layer (5mm) thick just above the insulation layer which comes down to the last clt roof slab. 6mm thk Low-e glass fixed glazing 50x50mm timber framework with cork insulation supported by 160mm thk Cross laminated timber slab 500mm deep 150mm Sika extensive green roof 120mm CLT wall panel cladded with corten steel sheet avoid dampening from rain as parapet wall 6mm thick corten steel flasher on top insulation with air Stone screen scladding with steel channel framework and intermittent clips, steel framework is anchored the CLT wall. 100x300mm MS plate connected to the Metal plate welded I-beam supporting the corten steel vertical fins. 10mm Corten steel fins that act as sunshade 6mm corten steel plate that with perforations 50x100 RHS supporting the 6mm corten steel plate as the outer covering 8mm thick MS plate fixed to the beam supporting the corten steel fins Sliding folding wooden windows to open towards the double height space. 6mm thk Tapering metal bracket 50mm front supporting the corten steel fins. 75x250mm steel frame supporting the sliding folding shutters 150x75mm RHS 30mm thk beige sandstone rain screen cladding 50x100 metal plate that fixed the fins supporting the perforated metal sheet self-sustaining vegetation Cafe counter made of solid wood counter top 6mm thick corten steel flasher on top of insulation with air control and water membrane 100mm thk cork insulation 30mm thk beige sanstone cladding Concealed intermittent clip attached to the steel frame with anchors and rail for the cladding. Sika 225 extensive green roof as per detail on the website.(150mm thk) 6mm thick MS bracket attached to the clt wall support the aluminuim alloy framework. steel alloy or cold form steel vertical framework 6mm thk bracket support the corten steel fins with the help of metal studs. Plywood Insulation Screed Concrete Metal CLT LEGEND WOODEN PLANKS Sika roof Sedum Blanket Rigid drainage layer Tile flooring Pebbles Plaster board Structural Strategy

Nestled in a corner

Design proposal & Site Introduction

The visual representation through the units through the double height spaces and the lounge in the terrace floor describing the activities and movement of the site corner with aslo providing a scale of the heights of these spaces to understand the massing and pedestrian movmement around it. These spaces area created to make it an invitining corner junction rather tha close it wilth a compound wall and to create a safe and open space for young kids and families around the site rather than restricting them in an enclosed boundary.

The ground floor plaza has rotating pivoted glass door that helps in opening up the plaza space in summer and creating a visual connection wit the street and tenament and becomes a warm space for the community to gather in the winter when the pivoted door close and not obstructing the visual connection to the street.

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build. The Terraces will enhance the connection with the existing and new build creating an interaction with the existing users and the new build users. With an

The site is located in knowehead gardens located in pollockshields, Glasgow. It is surrounded in a dense residential locality with pollokshields church sitting opposite to the selected site. The area is surrounded by villas and schools which is indcating a family oriented area with good amenities and security for the surrounding area. It is a peaceful locality with tenements, individual villas on the Albert drive stream and the Aytoun road stream. The site by itself guided the project towards building a young family oriented community housing space which is secure and promotes the social value of pollokshields area, by creating community spaces on the ground floor and residential units above, creating social harmony between the two. The new build consists of 10 units (4 two-bedroom units and 2 three bedroom units (G+1) with a double height living on the corner of the site. The site selected has the potential to provide a more wholesome user experience for the people in the locality to promote the ideology of Living in Agreement.This area of the site is the corner plot of the shields road and the Albert drive which provides ample amount of ventilation on 2 sides and was wasted by providing garages. Site plan of housing in the Knowehead gardens North elevation with respect to the neighbourhood Section A showing the existing knowehead gardens tenaments East Elevation

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outdoor reading space, or a quiet space, to catch the sun’s warmth in the summers, a space to dry clothes outdoors to prevent the tireless rains. The terrace is interconnected on all the adjoining tenaments to provide access to the whole community and linking some kind of social interaction. Retrofit Details First floor plan Second floor plan (With typical layout along the southern corner) Terrace retrofit plan Parapet detail Corner view of the junction of Knowehead gardens

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the

Terrace plan

understand the relation with the existing building

the new build, The new build will share the back wall with the

By Placing the blocks at 45 degrees to avail atmost views around

The ground has all the services and semi-public places to keep it as

interaction The complete massing

with 10 units in the first

and second floor, Double height ground floor.

Stagerring the blocks and achieving voids for skylights and the main corridor

Architectural Technology (Elevations and material tectonic models) - Lavender hill, London. Sergison Bates Architects

The section model is cut on the elevation that is overlooking the courtyard space from the corridors that leads to the flats in the built space. the retrofit project talks about the tectonic of different brick patterns and the subtle facade that makes it feel like home. The details talk about what materials have gone in the walls and floors that is emborsed on acrylic sheets to create this simple yet detail oriented section.

Cast model of the brick texture and detailed section of the internal and exterior wall

SPR Residence (Architecture & Interiors)

Living

First

Informal Living

(Double Height) Ground Floor Formal Living Area Ground Floor Formal Living Area Ground Floor Formal Living Area Third Floor Private Living Space (Bar Unit) First FloorDining Area

Front

Elevation First Floor Informal

Area (Double Height)

Floor

Area

SVASA Homes (Interiors)

Living room Dining room Kitchen and Crockery unit Dressing room ( Concrete flooring with brass inlay) Kids Bedroom Parents Bedroom Master Bedroom