Selected artist with Nicholas Taggart
Installation of 8,640 litres of expanded polystyrene void former
INSTALLATION 002
The Ideal Hut Show
Brief:
To adapt a common garden shed to sit within a 'street' of 20 others, designed by architects from around the world as part of a travelling exhibition for the Festival of Architecture 2016
HOUSE 003 STAGE 2 DESIGN
Rothwell House 003
Design and planning submission for a 300m², 5 bed family home, situated in Aberdeen.
SCOTTISH SCENIC ROUTES - PHASE THREE
SCOTTISH SCENIC ROUTES PHASE THREE
The Devil's Elbow, Glenshee
Competition Website
A site specific response to a brief requiring a roadside installation. It proposes a ‘sharing’ table and references forms found in the immediate context, such as the remains of the Allt a’Choire Dhirich Bridge (part of the old military road) and anti-tank cubes. The aims was to create a communal place passers by could rest and enjoy the landscape. Referencing the few man made elements found close by creates an opportunity to educate people about the fascinating social history of what would otherwise seem a beautiful yet barren wilderness. These 'found forms' relate directly to colourful episodes in the history of Scotland and thus provide a unique opportunity to mark out the site.
Competition Website
A site specific response to a brief requiring a roadside installation. It proposes a ‘sharing’ table and references forms found in the immediate context, such as the remains of the Allt a’Choire Dhirich Bridge (part of the old military road) and anti-tank cubes. The aims was to create a communal place passers by could rest and enjoy the landscape. Referencing the few man made elements found close by creates an opportunity to educate people about the fascinating social history of what would otherwise seem a beautiful yet barren wilderness. These 'found forms' relate directly to colourful episodes in the history of Scotland and thus provide a unique opportunity to mark out the site.
SITOOTERIE
SITOOTERIE [sit - oot - ery] noun, a place to sit out in
RIBAJ MICROARCHITECTURE AWARD
Competition Website
Inspired by Le Corbusier’s Cabanon, the ‘Sitooterie’ offers a small retreat where two people can eat, rest and sleep. It seeks to provide an immersive experience with the landscape while offering comfort and protection.
The self-supporting structure allows the cabin to be fully moveable, while the glazed screen can be orientated to take full advantage of the setting and environmental factors.
KINETIC FAÇADE 01
KINETIC FAÇADE 01
Folded mild-steel panels are suspended by stainless-steel wire rope so that they are free to move in the wind. Welded pegs accentuate the movement while the spacing allows for 'glimpses' through the metalwork as the panels pivot. A soft chiming noise is created and a counterweight at the bottom acts as a damper in stronger weather.
Possible building façade / sculpture? More photos below.
Possible building façade / sculpture? More photos below.
EDINBURGH SKYLINE
EDINBURGH SKYLINE
A few panoramas from the top of the St James centre in Edinburgh.
SCOTTISH SCENIC ROUTES - PHASE TWO
GLENSHEE SHELTER
SCOTTISH SCENIC ROUTES PHASE TWO
Competition Website
BRIEF
To create a point of interest along the old military road just prior to the Glenshee Ski Centre. It would be one of a series of structures forming a ‘Scenic Route’ throughout the highlands to enhance Scotland’s tourism provision. It encourages the experience of the landscape, complimenting the context by reflecting the “Human, Enduring and Dramatic” aspects of the site.
MOVED TO CARE COMPETITION
MOVED TO CARE - BUILDING TRUST INTERNATIONAL
SHORTLISTED
Competition in collaboration with Nicola Jackson from Subtil Design
Competition Website
Facebook link to shortlisted entry
BRIEF
"To design a small relocatable healthcare facility that promotes health and well-being in a safe and clean environment. The design should respond to the tropical environment in some of the poorest nations to provide a sustainable solution, keeping capital and maintenance costs low to increase the potential of multiple projects being realised."
GLASGOW WETLANDS BRIDGE COMPETITION
GLASGOW WETLANDS BRIDGE COMPETITION
Collaboration with Nicola Jackson from Subtil Design - Competition Website
This competition was run by the Glasgow Institute of Architects, Glasgow and Clyde Valley Green Network Partnership and the Central Scotland Green Network. The Brief was to create a 'green' bridging structure connecting the parkland bisected by the M73 Motorway. It's function was to be part bridge, part environmental link and part educational while acting as a sign post for the park's visitor centre.
GLASGOW WETLANDS BRIDGE COMPETITION - BRIDGE ISOMETRIC
GLASGOW WETLANDS BRIDGE COMPETITION - BRIDGE ISOMETRIC
GLASGOW WETLANDS BRIDGE COMPETITION - SECTIONAL BAY STUDY
GLASGOW WETLANDS BRIDGE COMPETITION - SECTIONAL BAY STUDY
SCOTTISH SCENIC ROUTES - PHASE ONE
SCOTTISH SCENIC ROUTES PHASE ONE
REFLECTOR - Competition Website
The first round of a competition run by the Glasgow Institute of Architects, this was an entry for Inverglas, a lock side site on top of a small hill with a great vista down Loch Lomond. The brief was to design a structure with a budget of £125 000 that would serve as a point of interest along a popular tourist route.
REFLECTOR is an immersive architectural installation. A timber walkway ramps up from the existing path network and cumulates in a viewing platform surrounded on one side by a mirrored dome.
Acknowledging that the site is already served by a popular visitors centre with coach parking facilities, the strategy was to create a structure that would enrich the experience; increase visitor numbers and extend their dwell time. It is imagined that REFLECTOR would be visible while driving up the A82 thus improving trade and small business opportunities. The structure also seeks to draw attention to and compliment the other cultural activities around the Loch as well as playing with and subverting the visitor’s experience of the landscape around them.
To this affect the dome is directed south, down Loch Lomond, towards Ben Lomond and the Rowardennan War Memorial which is the most popular staring point for the walk up the hill and sits on the West Highland Way.
The form is a direct interpretation of a lighthouse filament on exhibition in the National Museum of Scotland and a connection can be drawn through this to Scotland’s industrial and romantic past. Like a lighthouse, the proposal provides a vantage point but conversely jumbles the reflections of the surrounding countryside so that each panel contains its own unique view.
LARBERT LOCH DESIGN COMPETITION - EXHIBITION
http://www.ads.org.uk/sust/news/larbert-loch-design-competition-exhibition
So while not winning, there is at least a exhibition of all the entries on show at Larbert Hospital and later in the Lighthouse Gallery in Glasgow. Looks like we are number 28!
ALEXANDER THOMSON COMPETITION - GLASGOW INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS
This was a competition to design an installation for the parlor room in Holmwood House, a local National Trust of Scotland property designed by Alexander 'Greek' Thomson.
LARBERT HOSPITAL LOCH WALKWAY
A loch side walkway / lookout point next to the Forth Valley Hospital near Sterling.
VENICE URBAN FORUM
VENICE URBAN FORUM
Theoretical Proposal
The program is fundamentally a response to the site, a relationship with the immediate location and an attitude towards the urban fabric.
The building borrows from the Venetian typology of a Palazzo, a sequence of intimate spaces cumulating in a forum for organisations such as 'Venice In Peril' to discuss the city's ecological issues. The programme also creates a new Piazzetta, an external public 'room' akin to the larger Piazza San Marco.
A suspended metal ramp winds its way up the south façade of an adjoining Palazzo. It is screened by aluminium fins, hung with steel wires that twist in the wind. This forms one elevation of the 'Urban Room' while the West vista opens up to the Grand Canal and the ground plain dips into the water. These 'interventions' are inspired by the long and intricate Venetian culture of pattern and kinship with it's environment.
The architecture of the building hopes to broadcast the ecological, social and cultural issues facing the city to tourist and resident alike. Intern, this encourages a cross-fertilisation of ideas to the widest demographic or in other words, an urban approach to crowd-sourcing the city's ecological agenda.
GLASGOW READING
Queen's Street Library - A Sculpted Solid
Scottish Baronial Architecture with its deep walls, for defence, structure and environmental control is strong influence in the design and it is reflected in the Library's reading carrels, circulation and windows.
The dialogue between the city and library begins at a distance, communicating a civic structure in the urban residential context. On a more intimate scale, a narrative of shapes link the different ground floor spaces through to the collection of books that twist their way up the tower. At ground level, the podium competes a broken urban block, while a sheltered external square sweeps under the tower creating gathering and performance spaces.
GLASGOW LIVING
Beginning as a residential masterplan to link disparate sites across the West End of Glasgow, the project then focused on designing a new infill 'Urban Block' - Lilybank Gardens.
Based on a tenement typology, the form mediates between the solar orientation and alignment to the urban grid. The resultant building offers a series of private roof top terraces and public neighbourhood courtyards that serve as functional amenity spaces for the local community.
