Framing & Containing Part 1 Project 2021 Mentor Voyatzakis Mackintosh School of Architecture | UK Narratives, invisible yet present. The scheme's purpose is to discover and engage in overarching yet specific events throughout space and time; To make them experienceable in the human-scaled presence.Building a residential retreat and performance hall in the harbour town of Balloch, on the boundary between the Scottish High-and-Low-lands, forgotten stories are revealed by the caring ethos of Sistema, the client, a charity organisation helping children from disadvantaged backgrounds.Unfolding sequences of events that took place in the landscape’s region is essential to identify and thus celebrate the site's significance, namely geographic phenomena, a human historic response, and consequently, the present local culture. Appreciating and empathising with Sistema’s aspirations is essential to translate tectonically and subsequently cultivate their values: building a community and giving meaning to children through playing music. Place and People are integrated through material intervention.Energy facilitates basic needs - to form a stage. Metaphorically transcending the notion of energy from physical to spiritual, construction aims to trigger an emotional response to its users - to set the scene.Essentially, the scheme is a reminder of identity; articulated by a series of basalt splaying columns and orthogonally arranged timber beams, with the roles of framing & containing. Tutor(s)