Democratic Form
The monumental as a form of public building. Democratic : relating to or supporting democracy or its principles.
Within the civic surroundings, public and monumental forms hold unique qualities as opposed to the economic city of comodity and private space which surrounds it. The Civic space is a refelection of secular society which we all inhabit. Tension is created by the juxtoposition of these two types of space in relation to each other. The private and the public offer depth and complexity to the urban form and clarity to the layout of the city. The monumental and the public scale is a definging difference between the public and private spaces of the city. Scale is used within glasgow green to this end with the oversized typologys of built form indicating communal and shared space in which the population of the city can interact. “What is clear is that primary elements and monuments, because they directly represent the public sphere, acqurie an increasingly nessary and complex character which is not so easly modified. The residental quarter, being an area , has a more dynamic character but it nevertheless depends on the life of these primary elements and monuments and participates in the system constituted by the city as a whole.� Aldo Rossi, Pg. 95, The Architecture of the city.
McLennan Arch, 1890
Nelson's Monument, built 1806.
Form in Relation to the City
To better understand the relationship the park maintains with the surrounding city I have employed the three basis building types as described by Martins and March in the 1972 publication ‘Urban Space and Structure’. Pavilion Type
These forms being in the pavilion type, the street type and the court type. These have then been ploted on a diagram of the surrounding city to illustrate the differences in form that is exipited by the park in relation to its evvirons. This is an intersting excerise as allows me to draw conclusions which can be drawn upon in how to place the building on site and how to define its relationship with the wider city.
Street Type
Court Type
The Three Fundamental Building Types - Pavilion, Street and Court Types Martin and March (1972), Pg36
Diagram of the city environs designated by type - Pavilion, Street and Court
Public Space and the City
Diagram of Public Space
Setting and Plan
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1 Squash Court 2 Spectator Area 3 Gym Studio 4 Athletic Gym 5 Studio
First Floor
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1 Entrance 2 Refectory 3 Reading Room 4 Staff Area 5 Changing Room 6 Yoga Studio 7 Plunge Pool 8 Treatment Rooms 9 Main Pool 10 External Pool
Ground Floor
Water & Entrance
Water and Space
Context and Setting