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Scottish City / Scottish Landscape

Part 2 Project 2006
Laura Kinnaird
 Edinburgh College of Art | UK
The architectural conclusions rely not only on the beauty of clean forms and materials but on the exceptional control of the special impression the buildings give to their environment.

The simplicity of the architectural forms have an elegance which is achieved through precision, craftsmanship skills, transformation and language of materiality – creating attractiveness to the simplicity and clarity of the architecture. I have experimented with the coalition of colour, light/dark, inside/outside, natural/manmade, horizontal/vertical as an effective interpretation of our holistic response to place.

The main psychological intensity is found in the contrast between urban form/industrial water and a landscape/natural water.


Scottish Landscape

The portfolio demonstrates a stunning and powerful expression of the genius loci of the Scottish natural landscape. The design interpretation is borne out of the deep ontological forces of the chosen place producing a most poetic building which, not only sits in harmony with its natural surroundings, but intensifies the awareness and attachment to the place. Carl Jung’s theory of attachment is the model for the analysis, interpretation and making of the architecture.

Dr Faozi Ujam

2006
Scottish City - The water of leith holds its urban context but is guided by the importance of the waters edge
Scottish City - context plan: lines of light identify the edge and guide the orientation of the plan
Scottish City - the building is divided into elements of serviced and served the clarity of which is experimented in concepts of materiality and light/dark.
Scottish city - the building identifies the ground plane and informs the nature of the public space through the entrance and lecture theatre by cutting into the ground as the occasion requires
Scottish city - design detail continues the development of the serviced and served building concept by evoking the ideas of solid and void between the stone and glass facades. (The dividing line of light from the plan is clearly the connection between th
Scottish city - exterior perspective
Scottish city - model: the dynamics between light and dark, inside and outside, solid and void, horizontal and vertical are all experienced in the exchange of the building's facades
Scottish landscape - the context alters but the dynamics of experimentation remain - solid and void, light and dark, horizontal and vertical, natural and man-made. The significance of natural water now governs the project.
Scottish landscape - the development of certain ontological forces - with preference to the symbolism of "attachment". These resin images and their compositions have become an important driving force in the process of design
Scottish landscape - the intensity of experience in the place is identified by connection of land and water and its exchange thoughout the site from horizontal to vertical creating a dynamic intervention into the surrounding context
Scottish landscape - the plan starts to trace the importance of water and its intervention with the ground plane as it twists and opens to address characteristic features around the context of the place
Scottish landscape - the building takes advantage of the vertical layers from earlier resin image by incorporation along the facade - this creats a rhythm of solid and void to the interior of the baths and the water's surface maintains the patterns of lig
Scottish landscape - design detail focused on the buildability in the remotness of the place. Focusing the building to provide a self-sufficiency through natrual water filtration and energy use. Studies were made on access, materiality etc
Scottish landscape - the interior examines the exchange of surfaces concepts of solid and void, light and dark, natural and man-made etc
Scottish landscape - model
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