Energy, Landscape, Culture Part 1 Project 2020 Tobias Deckker Mackintosh School of Architecture | UK The project takes a critical look at processes and methodologies. It sought to truly understand and negotiate between spatial memories and contextual and programmatic preoccupations. A performative series of investigations of Balloch, Scotland, at a number of different dimensions and time scales, laid bare its history. Balloch is at the southern basin of Loch Lomond and was formed by a fascinating geological history - it is the point where the landscape transitions from Lowland sandstone to Highland granite. The site itself epitomises this, moving from the town of Balloch, a western tip of the conurbation and contemporary sprawl that spans the country, to the dramatic vistas of the Loch and Northern landscape. Recent human history has read Balloch as both terminus for sprawl and a harbour for the Highlands.The school of music finds itself here. The shift in landscape and move from urbanity to wilderness is a critical marker for the arrangement of rooms and spaces. The landscape creates private spaces for living and practice while spaces for performance are in the town. The civic ambition folds many functions together in a very urban way, rejecting generic sprawl. Tobias Deckker Tutor(s) Tilo Einert