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Location Glasgow G3 | ARB/RIBA courses BArch/BA (Hons) Architecture, MArch/Diploma in Architecture | Head of school Sally Stewart | Full-time tutors 15 | Part-time tutors 29 | Students 550 | Staff to student ratio 1:17 | Bursaries available No
Undergraduate
Ailsa Hutton
Course BA (Hons) Architecture
Studio/unit brief Socialising Tourism in the Critical Zone: Lochaber Observatory
Project title The Hidden Network of Mycelium
Project description The deforestation of the Highlands has contributed to the erosion of traditional Gaelic culture, loss of biodiversity and ecological degradation in Scotland. The Knoydart Forest Trust, faced with the challenge of rewilding, has difficulty accessing and occupying the sites. The proposal is a semi-permanent structure to house the team during the planting season and additionally focused on improving soil structure to ensure its success. The design is a physical manifestation of reciprocity in ecology, as it demonstrates the attitudes of responsibility for our planet aren’t a ‘one-way’ relationship. If people give to the earth, the earth will nurture people back.
Tutor citation Ailsa’s work achieves a delicate and poetic investigation into how the provision of shelter can become a material expression of an ecological inhabitation of the land, supporting a remote rural community. Luca Brunelli
Postgraduate
Jamie Begg
Course Diploma in Architecture
Studio/unit brief Final Design Thesis
Project title îlot Faubourg des Fiacres: New Psychiatric Care Spaces for Marseille
Project description This project investigates the destigmatisation of psychiatric care spaces in Marseille by developing an architecture which is compassionate and caring. The building integrates with its surroundings by preserving remnants of an urban block and combining these with new fragments to foster a domestic, non-institutional atmosphere. The proposal is formed around a series of courtyards, which offer calming green and blue spaces and are essential to the building’s passive cooling approach. It offers a variety of images and spaces which are permeable and overlap with the life of surrounding communities, while providing spaces for social interaction, quiet reflection, and personalised care.
Tutor citation Jamie’s project is a thorough investigation which takes an ethical position on urban development, broadening the scope of ‘care’ to include wider civic and planetary care. Graeme Massie
