3. Detailed
Cross Section
3rd Year - Building Study - Ar tists’ Herbarium - Benmore Botanical Gardens
Herbaria are plant libraries that contain, collect and expand our knowledge about plants. The proposed Herbarium provides a focus
for the study of botany through art. By embedding the building in its context and creating a dramatic sense of place the herbarium
connects the artists with both the preserved specimens and the surrounding landscape of Benmore Gardens.
Atmospheric
Cross Section
Site Section
Long Section
7. Historical Narrative Fragments Re-connection to specific
landmarks on each floor rep-
resenting that specific layer of
history.
Fragments collected.
Re-connection to heritage & history while moving up
through tower.
Representing the stratified layers of history.
Connections
3rd Year - Town Study - Dunoon Museum & Ar tists’ Residences - Dunoon
Dunoon had enjoyed a prosperous and successful history until the closure of the American naval base in 1992. This event marked a
fracture in Dunoon’s history which was accompanied by a loss of identity and historical knowledge. The Museum repairs, collects and
cultivates the scattered historical fragments of the town, reconnecting the residents and visitors of Dunoon to the town’s landmarks,
its heritage and its history. PS Waverley, an old passenger ferry that visited Dunoon regularly during the great days of Glaswegians
taking a trip ‘Doon the Watter’, has been renovated and becomes an extension of the Museum positioned on the coast line to act as a
focal point drawing people down to the coast and a catalyst to stimulate the regeneration of the waterfront. The Museum’s artist-in-
residence programme provides spaces for artists to stay and work for long periods of time in the heart of Dunoon using art to help
reconnect its communities. Workshop spaces connect to a new public square next to the Burgh Halls. In conjunction with the restored
Burgh Halls the scheme reinforces Dunoon’s growing reputation as the cultural centre of Scotland’s west coast towns.
Development Areas
PS WAVERLEY,
EXTENSION OF
DUNOON MUSEUM
FUTURE DEVELOPMENT TO
COMPLETE WATERFRONT
FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF
MORE STUDIOS/ HOUS-
ING/SHOPS TO COMPLETE
CHURCH STREET
DUNOON MUSEUM
AND ARTISTS’ RESI-
DENCES
Model
8.
9. Ground Floor Plan
Waterfront Visualisation
2nd Year - Dwelling Place - Family Dwelling Block - Inveraray
The form for the dwelling block is derived from an analysis of the town’s fabric and its relation to the landscape around it. The form
bears a direct correlation to the views from interior to exterior. The plan is anchored around a central atrium with circulation wrapped
around it, driven by the need for changing interior spaces within family dwellings the plan can be adapted to suit needs. Changes in
floor level within the plan provide a mixture of communal and private spaces while defining thresholds between volumes in section.
The sculpted form gives back to the immediate town fabric by creating a new communal garden space to the West of the site while
simultaneously blocking a busy road to the East. Based on common Inveraray dwelling typologies the ground floor is raised a half
level up to provide more privacy.
Exploded Perspective
10. Exploded Axonometric
1st Year - Symbiont - Writer’s Retreat - Por tencross
The tower is located on the west coast of Scotland on the outskirts of a small Hamlet, Portencross.
Designed for a writer, the small single celled structure secludes itself from civilisation using the natural phenomenon of tides. The
tower can only be accessed twice a day during low tide before it isolates itself and the writer as the tide comes in. The structure
evokes a feeling of intimacy and protection with the writer shielding them from the environment yet placing them within the heart of
it. The single window isolates the view away from land and any form of civilisation and towards the sea leaving the writer at one with
themselves and their surroundings.
Exterior Visualisation
Plan
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