the tower project

live-work space design

Client Profile

The Four Winds Pavilion is a 19th century industrial brick building on Glasgow’s Clydeside. It was formerly a hydraulic pumping station used to power the cranes on the dockside housing a number of steam engines and water tanks.

The internal footprint is 6.8m square and it is a tall vertical space 14.9m high. It is an empty shell and the internal walls of the tower are exposed brickwork. There are 3 potential points of entrance, 2 of which are a doorway openings on the south face at ground level and in the same location at a height of 3m.

The only other windows tall slots at the top of the space – these tall windows are 9.2m above ground level. They offers great views of the city.

Precedent from https://decoracion.trendencias.com/casas/casas-poco-convencionalesvivir-en-una-torre-de-agua

Precedent from https://www. remodelista.com/posts/thearchitect-is-in-a-nyc-firm-answers-your-questions/

The client is a light blacksmith (or metalworker) who creates objects such as gates, railings, sculpture, tools... The materials that they use the most are wrought iron and steel.

The tools that they use are a hammer, an anvil (which is the surface on which the material is worked) and a chisel (used to cut hard materials).

Blacksmiths work by heating pieces of wrought iron or steel until the metal becomes soft enough for shaping with hand tools.

To make their work, the metalworkers need:

1.A Forge: a type of hearth used for heating metals

2.A Smithy: where a forge is located

3.An Anvil: surface where the material is worked

4.Vises/Grinders/Belt Sanders

5.Storage