The Laurieston Atelier

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the provision of what is necessary for the health, welfare, maintenance, and protection of someone or something.

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look after and provide for the needs of. “he has numerous animals to care for”

With a design brief as open-ended as simply just “design a building to care for Laurieston” the question that started out as “what does it mean to care?” grew to become “how can a building, with both its function as well as its form, care for, and contribute to, a thriving and sustainable community?”

With the main design question clarifed, the questions then became: How can the programme care for the community? How can the materials care for the community? How can the facade care for the community? How can the structural system care for the community?

With the challenge of holistically designing a building to care for the community of Laurieston clearly understood the next task became to develop a clear understanding of Laurieston.

SITE ANALYSIS

1. Community Businesses & Cultural Establishments

“Laurieston is a changing, multi-ethnic and economic area. It’s also my home.” - Rosalind Lawless @ros_lawless

1. The Laurieston Bar | A longtime neighbourhood favourite

2. Namak Mandi | A popular Afghani restaurant

3. Zilch Deli | Vegan deli, since 2020

4. Kendall Koppe | Art gallery

5. Carlton Studios | Recording studio & rehearsal rooms

6. 16 Nicholson St | Art gallery

7. Patricia Fleming Gallery | Art gallery

8. Stallan-Brand | Architecture frm

9. Glasgow Central Mosque | Place of worship, built 1983

10. Sharkeys Bar | Neighbourhood bar

11. Citizens Theatre | Performing arts theatre

12. You + I | Kombucha brewer, since 2017

13. Gorbals Mens Shed | Social club

14. 02 Academy | Live music venue

15. The Barn Youth Centre | Youth centre, since 1967

Glasgow Central Mosque

The frst purpose-built mosque in Glasgow (1983). It is visited by thousands of Muslims every week and can accommodate 2,500 people, including 500 spaces dedicated to women. The mosque combines Islamic architecture with the characteristic Old Red Sandstone material used to build many of Glasgow’s buildings.

Citizens Theatre

A £20m redevelopment works began on the venue in September 2019 but was halted for three months after the start of lockdown. Construction resumed after receiving a vital funding boost from the Glasgow City Council.

O2 Academy Glasgow

A Grade B listed 2,500-person capacity event venue that primarily hosts live music and comedy. Notable acts hosted include: The White Stripes, The Killers, James Brown, Russell Brand and Frankie Boyle. It was purchased in 2002 and underwent a £3 million restoration.

Signifcant Buildings

Land Use

5. Usable Public Greenspace

Public Transit

3. Circulation (vehicular, primary)

2. Community Boundaries

Hutchesontown

Laurieston Tradeston

#LAURIESTON A SOCIAL MEDIA SURVEY

A social media survey was conducted in an attempt to understand what is already occuring in the community. The logic being that if it could be understood how spaces throughout the community are already being used, it would be that much easier to propose a project with a programme that would be well received. Suffce it to say, there is a lot of creativity in Laurieston.

DEVELOPMENT & REVITALIZATION

British Linen Bank restoration by Page\Park

Laurieston Living by Urban Union and others

Citizens Theatre Revovation by Bennetts Associates

Laurieston Arches by Page\Park

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The aim of this project is to provide a community not unfamiliar with the feelings of vulnerability and precarity with a sense of ownership and hope, independence and autonomy.

While Laurieston’s housing policy and solutions can be endlessly debated, one thing is clear, Laurieston will always be a place for the people.

With Urban Union focused on addressing the issue of access to quality housing covered in the Laurieston Transformational Regeneration Area (TRA), a project providing access to education or employment is of worthwhile consideration.

With the City of Glasgow College nearby, opportunities for employment become one of this community’s most pressing needs.

The Laurieston Atelier exists to provide opportunities for employment - self employment. Its intended user is the individual who has the knowledge and skills but lacks the funds to start their own artisanal business, be it a small bakeshop, caterer, or virtual kitchen, or a furniture maker, or a jewelry or pottery/ceramics artist.

The goal is simple - empower the people.

Energy & Ventilation Strategy

Design to maximise the benefts and usefulness of daylight in order to reduce dependency on artifcial lighting and electricity. Include operable windows in private studios to allow for isolated ventilation and thermal regulation according to user preferences and needs. Underfoor heating throughout.

Structural Strategy

An exterior CLT wall with a glulam post-and-beam interior frame, CLT foor plates. The exterior CLT wall provides protection against lateral forces (shear) while the glulam post-and-beam interior frame provides the opportuntity for future programme adaptation. The exterior CLT wall provides the additional beneft of increased air-tightness.

Fire Strategy

Extensive studies have expanded our knowledge and understanding of the effects of fre on wooden materials and wooden structures. Wooden structures can now be designed for fre safety using new calculation models. Mass timber building materials (which include CLT and glulam) are suprisingly fre resistant. Also, efforts were made to ensure compliance with local fre exit regulations.

PURPOSE

The Laurieston Atelier is a co-working space for artisans and makers.

The Laurieston Atelier fosters collaboration and community among creatives and reduces barriers to entry by providing access to the equipment, space, and tools that are the greatest source of initial investment for creative start ups and entrepreneurs.

LOCATION

The Laurieston Atelier is located just minutes away from the Glasgow City Centre in the heart of Laurieston next to and occupying several of the historic railway arches.

Due to its proximity to main access roads, an indoor bike storage room and bus, subway and train stations all within walking distance, the Laurieston Atelier is easily accessed by all modes of transit.

PRECEDENT STUDY THE BRIGGAIT

Foci: Programme/Daylight

ARCHITECT/S: Clarke and Bell (original)

Nicoll Russell Studios (redevelopment)

LOCATION: Glasgow, Scotland

PROGRAM: Mixed-use

STATUS: Original completed 1873

Redevelopment completed 2010

The Briggait redevelopment project by Nicoll Russell Studios was selected as a precedent study because of how it successfully manages the project’s programme to allow for a variety of uses of space with an emphasis on daylighting.

The Briggait is a complex of Grade A-listed buildings beside the Clyde River in the Merchant City area of Glasgow. While its original use, and designed purpose, was as a marketplace for fsh, it is now home to many artists and creatives as well as the headquarters of WASPS (Workshop & Artist Studio Provision Scotland Ltd.).

The Briggait houses over 5,500m2 of public and private space including:

-45 studios for visual artists

-24 offces for cultural organisations

-4 shop-front units for creative industry companies

-A beautiful market hall available for public use circa 1873

-2 street-front exhibition spaces

-2 meeting room spaces

-A heritage space

-A multi-purpose unit on the Clyde facing side of the building (notably used as a public cafe).

The redevelopment of the Briggait complex enables it to service a variety of users through its simple but clever programmatic zoning. While space for artists is kept separate and secure from space open to the public, the two overlap in the Market/Exhibition Hall, mutually benefting from the ample daylight found there provided by the roof lights.

There are many carefully designed interior apertures throughout the project to ensure the building’s occupants are able to make fullest use of the daylight brought in through the equally abundant number of external apertures (roof lights). A primary example of this are the studios in the Guildry Court Atrium. The studios were designed with foor to ceiling double-glazed screens facing onto the triple-height atrium. The glazed walls are inclined at an angle of 6° to the vertical to maximise the available light, particularly to the lower-foor studios. The top-foor studios have a partly glazed roof, with large panels of glass fxed to a series of cast ‘spider’ fxings, in turn fxed to tubular steel bow trusses spanning between cross walls.

2. Exhibition Hall (facing Bridgegate)

1. Exhibition Hall (facing Clyde Street)

6. Exhibition Hall 2nd Floor Walkway

5. Guildry Court Atrium 2nd Floor Studio

4. Guildry Court Atrium (facing Bridgegate)

PRECEDENT STUDY DALSTON WORKS Foci: Envelope/Structure

ARCHITECT/S: Waugh Thistleton Architects

LOCATION: Hackney, London

PROGRAM: Mixed-use

STATUS: Completed 2017

The Dalston Works project by Waugh Thistleton Architects was selected as a precedent study because of its CLT structural frame/brick facade building envelope.

Upon its completion, Dalston Works was the world’s largest CLT building. It is an iconic example of Waugh Thistleton Architects’ ambition to use timber construction across a wide range of project types, including high-density urban housing, in London and beyond.

While the external walls may have been clad with brick, with the exception of the building’s minimal concrete raft foundation and podium, the structural frame of the multi-volume, ten-storey, 121-unit, mixed use development is entirely CLT - including the party walls, foors, ceilings, stairs and lift core. As a result, the project’s structure was calculated to being fve times lighter than if it were made from concrete.

With the site being situated directly above an HS1 tunnel (and a planned Crossrail 2 line) the fact that the project’s structure weighed fve times less than a comparable concrete structure enabled developers to build higher on the site than previously imagined, adding 35 units to the project.

The success of the Dalston Works project highlights the many benefts of using CLT. Benefts include those both economical as well ecological.

The economic benefts of using CLT include the reduction of both the project’s construction time and the number of deliveries during construction. Like a giant piece of fat-pack furniture, the Dalston Works frame was prefabricated off site and delivered in pieces before being assembled. The entire building’s structure took just 52 weeks to complete (overall constrction 130 weeks) and site deliveries were carefully orchestrated to be kept to a minimum to avoid disruption to the local area, resulting in an 80% reduction in the number of deliveries.

The ecological benefts of using CLT include a reduction in the project’s embodied CO2 (the amount of energy required to produce and form a material) and the frame’s ability to sequester (store) CO2. Dalston Works timber frame has 50% less embodied CO2 than a traditional concrete frame and stores 2,600 tonnes of CO2. An additional beneft of using CLT is its increased airtightness (compared to concrete).

2. Photo taken during construction showing CLT structural core

1. Photo taken after completion showing fnished brick facade

6. Roof terrace detail section

5. Axonometric section

4. Photo taken during construction showing CLT structural core

3. Photo taken after completion showing fnished brick facade

PRECEDENT STUDY E CAMPBELL ST STUDIOS

Focus: Facade

ARCHITECT/S: unknown

LOCATION: Glasgow, Scotland

PROGRAM: Industry & Manufacturing (original)

STATUS: Estimated completion c. 1854

The WASPS East Campbell Street Studios was selected as a precedent study because of its industrial Victorian Era brick facade.

East Campbell Street Studios is one of the few remaining buildings of the Saracen Tool Works industrial complex. It is also known as the Dovehill Studios or Gallowgate Studios. It is a rectangular-plan fve-bay three-storeyed block built from red facing brick. The use of brick in this building serves both structural as well as aesthetic purposes.

Victorian Era architects took full advantage of the dual functionality of brick when designing the facades of buildings with load-bearing masonry walls. By employing design strategies as simple as breaking up the face of a plane with a horizontal element or stepping portions of a wall back from its face, they created facades full of shadows, pattern, and repetition, all elements of the the timeless, humble, subtle, and enduring beauty of Victorian Era industrial buildings.

3. View from SE of 27 East Campbell Street

2. Ground foor arched bay detail (moulded convex brick)

1. View from NE of 27 East Campbell Street

4, 5, 6, 7 Jon Farmer

7. Facade detail: Red facing brick (brick type), 1:3 Scottish Bond (one course of headers to every three course of stretchers)

6. Flat/camber arch above window

5. Facade study

Bay width

Centre of bay / bay line of symmetry

4. Facade photo stitch

PRECEDENT STUDY UoL GARDEN HALLS

Focus: Precast Facade

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ARCHITECT/S: tp bennett (executive architects), Maccreanor Lavington (principal facade)

LOCATION: London, England

PROGRAM: Student Residence Hall

STATUS: Completed 2017

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3 Pr eca st r econ sti tu ted Por tl a n d ston e spa n dr el a n d m u l l i on

The University of London Cartwright Garden Hall student residence was selected as a precedent study because of its brick-faced precast facade.

4 Pr eca st r econ sti tu ted ston e si l l

5 B r i ck -f a ced pr eca st con cr ete pi er u si n g D -7 1 Peter sen br i ck

6 Pr eca st con cr ete spa n dr el pa n el f a ced w i th

7 B r i ck -f a ced pr eca st con cr ete l i n tel by T h or pe Pr eca st, u si n

Using approximately 1100 precast panels throughout the project and incorporating four brick types, the University of London Cartwright Garden Hall student residence is an impressive example of Modern Methods of Construction (MMC).

The decision to use a brick-faced precast facade was infuenced by a number of different factors including time, money, and design character. Located in a central London conservation area, the use of a prefabricated facade enabled designers to cost-effectively develop brick details that reference the detailing of traditional load-bearing masonry while minimising the amount of road closures and on-site labour.

The prefabricated facade is self-supporting. Because the large load-bearing units don’t add any additional stresses to the frame the only purpose of the connections between the frame-facade is to prevent it from tipping forward. Also, and in comparison to contemporary site-laid brick cladding, by being self-supported fewer movement joints are required to allow for a near ‘seamless’ connection between prefabricated elements.

Reynaers aluminium windows with laser-cut aluminium decorative screen powder-coated in ‘Unpolished Bronze’

Precast reconstituted Portland stone spandrel and mullion

Precast reconstituted stone sill

Brick-faced precast concrete pier using D-71 Petersen brick

Precast concrete spandrel panel faced with D-71 Petersen brick and glazed ceramic sill

Brick-faced precast concrete lintel by Thorpe Precast, using D-71 Petersen brick

Rusticated brick-faced precast concrete pier

Schueco FW50+ anodised aluminium-framed window

Precast reconstituted Portland stone coping and brick-clad cill

Laser-cut aluminium decorative screen fxed to aluminium louvres powdercoated in RAL 7008

Painted metal railings fnished in gloss black

7. Precast element install 6. Precast element install

5. Precast elements

4. Precast process

3. Facade detail photo

2. View of the University of London Cartwright Garden Hall student residence

Laurieston Atelier LA DRAWING SET

Norfolk St

BallaterSt

GorbalsSt

Gorbals St

ClelandSt

Cleland St

Gorbals St

Citizen’s Theatre

Laurieston Living Residential Development (brick facade)

Grassy area

Grassy area

Limestone pavers

Limestone pavers

IDP Architects/Network Rail proposed pedestrian pass through arch

Public bike rack/Next Bike

Bus stop

Urban Union/Laurieston Living Development

Janitor’s Closet

West Elevation

View of the West Elevation looking north along Gorbals St

Interior view from underneath the glazing enclosed walkway looking up the stairs that lead to frst foor private studios. Community workshop on left. Doors on right lead to the exhibition space/gallery and fre exit stairwell.

View of the double helix staircase from the frst foor

View of the double helix staircase from the exhibition space/gallery underneath.

80mm concrete screed with integrated underfloor heating (ROM A393 10mm wire mesh, Warmup PE-RT 16mm OD pipe)

Separating layer

30mm acoustic matting

200 CLT slab

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Axonometric Floor (General)

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80mm concrete screed with integrated underfloor heating

Separating layer

30mm acoustic matting

200 CLT slab

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Detail: Floor (General)

Scale 1:5 @ A3

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The Laurieston Atelier

Detail: Internal Partition Wall (General)

Scale 1:20 @ A3

Screws

350mm x 600mm glulam beam (load bearing)

90mm CLT (non-load bearing)

12.5mm ADAPTAVATE BREATHABOARD (to height 3132mm)

150mm solid wood flush baseboard

63mm x 38mm timber guide rail

Screws

80mm concrete screed with integrated underfloor heating

Separating layer

30mm acoustic matting

200 CLT slab

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90mm CLT (non-load bearing)

Taped J-Bead

Drywall compound

12.5mm ADAPTAVATE BREATHABOARD (to height 3132mm)

6mm x 6mm reveal

150mm solid wood baseboard planed to matching thickness & scribed to finish floor

63mm x 38mm timber guide rail

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Detail: Blunted Wallboard/Flush Baseboard Finish for Internal Partition Walls

Scale 1:2 @ A3

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Dogtooth soldier course

12.5mm ADAPTAVATE BREATHABOARD (not seen here, below cut)

100mm CLT

Vapour barrier

110mm rigid cavity insulation

27mm cavity

Brick-faced precast facade (min. 150mm concrete required on back of brick, halved bricks are used to reduce material waste/consumption)

1:3 Scottish Bond (one course of headers to every three course of stretchers)

Flat/camber arch above window

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Detail: External Wall (General - as seen at corbel above second floor windows) Scale 1:5 @ A3

Laurieston Atelier

The Laurieston Atelier

Detail: External Wall-Beam-Floor Connection

Scale 1:5 @ A3

12.5mm ADAPTAVATE BREATHABOARD

Solid wood baseboard

Angle bracket

80mm concrete screed with integrated underfloor heating

Separating layer

30mm acoustic matting

200 CLT slab

Extruded aluminium bracket

600mm glulam beam

100mm CLT

Vapour barrier

110mm rigid insulation

27mm cavity

370mm brick-faced precast facade

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Brick-faced precast facade dowelled into cast stone sill below (which is dowelled into the brick-faced precast facade below it, at other points not shown)

Fabricated bracket fixed to face of CLT, location identified by recesses cut during manufacturing of CLT elements.

Halfen channel cast vertically into back of brick-faced precast facade

Pocket cast in back of brick-faced precast facade to provide space for installation and insulation clearances

Brick-faced precast facade dowelled into footer below

40mm rigid insulation

Sealing layer

200mm reinforced concrete upstand

220mm trowel-finished reinforced concrete ground slab with underfloor heating

PE-foil separating layer

50mm rigid insulation

Sealing layer

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Detail: Brick-Faced Precast Facade-CLT Attachment and Foundation Scale 1:10 @ A3

Laurieston Atelier

The Laurieston Atelier

Brick-Faced Precast Facade Panels

Scale 1:100 @ A3 (panels only)

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Modular roof-light system thermal glazing

Sealing layer

Synthetic roofing

Foil

200mm PIR thermal insulation

Vapour barrier

90mm CLT

240mm IPE steel beam

350mm x 600mm glulam beam

The Laurieston Atelier

Detail: Roof Lights

Scale 1:10 @ A3

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Photovoltaic module (out of frame)

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