LOST SPACES Edinburgh Tramway Speculations Unit 2 AD:Tectonics 2017 Esala MA(hons) & BA Architecture
This booklet contains the work of students from the Unit 2 Design studio of the MA(Hons) & BA Architecture programmes at Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. The Unit - Lost Spaces, was started by Ivan Marquez in 2014 and was led this year by Jack Green and Nicky Thomson. The studio explores making interventions within the territory of Leith, Edinburgh that reimagine the derelict remnants of Leith’s industrial heritage. These ‘Lost Spaces’ are brought back into use and integrated in to the existing urban fabric with projects that contribute to the local social and cultural conditions.
Tectonics Unit 2 - 2017
Lost Spaces Edinburgh Tramway Speculations
This unit speculates on possible uses for the currently derelict site of the Edinburgh Tramway Depot situated between Leith Walk and Easter Road. Students contributed to the production of four alternative masterplans for this area that addressed a particular theme. Within these masterplans, individual students also developed an individual building at multiple scales of enquiry that considered; structural, material and environmental concerns. The studio was structured such that tectonic questions were addressed from the outset to ensure they are synthesised within the design process. Four groups each produced a masterplan for the redevelopment of the site. These masterplans consist of 3-5 individual projects that contain both living accommodation and additional programmes. Each masterplan and associated individual projects addresses one of four themes: - Leisure - Production - Health - Education Individual proposal: There was not be a prescribed single programme for the projects, and as such there is a broad range of proposals in the studio. There were however, some specific mandatory conditions to narrow down the scope of possible outcomes, as a common framework for the unit: 1. PROTAGONIST - Each project required the definition of a particular human individual as the protagonist for the intervention. This protagonist was used to establish a narrative that helped to define the components of the brief. Your protagonist needed to have concerns/interests that address the particular thematic focus of the group masterplan 2. PROPOSAL – The designed intervention had to provide living accommodation for at least twenty of the defined protagonist, with associated common facilities that accommodate additional program relating to the protagonists needs/theme.
EDUCATION
Education Masterplan The masterplan provides a hub for the education of art within a wider community in which art forms and practices already exist. Along with the four proposals, additional residential accommodation is proposed to close off the newly created blocks and streets and densify the site. The productive re-purposing of the site continues into the Tram Shed, where two of the horizontal bays are filled with residential accommodation, the other bay is used as a pedestrian-only passageway. Another street, created by the strategic linear arrangement of the proposals connects the existing educational infrastructure, in order to create a more cohesive community.
Group Members
Existing Site and Proposed Demolitions
Proposed Additions
Surfaces
1. Wayne Zhang 2. Emmy Rimmereid 3. Romila Strub 4. Rachel Briglio
Circulation
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Site Section
Site Elevation A
Site Elevation B
Education 1 - Wayne Zhang
Leith Pottery Retreat Following by the idea of creating a new ‘Art Centre’ in Leith area. Considering the building’s site is right next to Leith Walk-the busiest road in Leith area, the type of this art form should be something relatively easy for the basic public to understand and fun, but also simple to learn. By using this kind ‘simple’ form of art, lead the general public further into the main ‘core’ of this ‘Art Centre’. That’s the reason why this project is developed around pottery, using potters as main protagonists. By researching and discovering the basic requirements of potters, creating a new type of ‘Potters’ Retreat’, helping people learning pottery whilst having a leisurely time. The project started off from individual potter’s studio design,with required functions and features. Then assembled and extracted into a whole ‘art centre’ design including public spaces and studying facilities.
1:50 Studio Model
Ground Floor Individual Studio Plan
First Floor Individual Studio Plan
Front Elevation
Section A-A
Section B-B
Education 2 - Emmy Rimmereid
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Scupture centre The tectonic interaction in to the site will create a sculpting centre and co-exists and be a part of a wider art | education community [performance art, textile printing, pottery and sculpting] The building provides for artist who want to stay for a longer period of time. Hence, studio apartments with work space. It also allows for other students who are staying for a couple of week or months, and for shorter courses in the two workshops, where one can work with different materials.
[LOWER LEVEL]
Each studio apartment has a bedroom, bathroom, desk space, a kitchenette and a private studio. The studio has a sliding wall which allows for the studio to become larger and also to be able to close of the private [clean] part or for greater privacy as the studio section are not surrounded by solid walls. As the studios are positioned along a corridor which this space to become a shared common space studio|workspace for the artists to meet and get a larger space to work in between the accommodation.
[UPPER LEVEL]
P r o t a g o n i s t
R o o m
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Abstract Tectonic Model 1:200
COURTYARD VIEW
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Education 3 - Romila Strub
Encounter Encounter is a centre for performing arts that gathers together international artists from a diversity of cultural backgrounds to teach their traditional forms of art. In so doing, it creates an ‘inter-cultural’ setting for the exchange of artistic knowledge. Multicultural education is often criticised for being too top-down and not having adequate involvement of local populations. In contrast, this project aims to set up opportunities for active participation. The school acts as the middle ground in the ‘public plaza’ of the masterplan and is hence a key actor in the encouragement of positive encounters.
School entrance
Section AA’
Ambition
Section BB’
Expression
Evolution
Composition
Education 4 - Rachel Briglio
IMPRINT[ED] The project is focused on reconnecting the community of Leith through the introduction of a printmaking studio - a space for learning, teaching, sharing and interacting. Prominence lies in the building’s section; the extruded concrete frame and accentuated horizontality created allow for large voids, and the placement of the printmaking facilities and residential accommodation between them. The proposal’s architecture is influenced by and responds to the industrial buildings on site, primarily the existing tram shed to the south. Its pitched roof and metal cladding, which are mirrored in the proposal, lend themselves to an aesthetic the represents the production processes happening inside.
ROOF | REINFORCED CONCRETE AND TIMBER BEAMS
TIMBER ROOMS | NON-LOADBEARING TIMBER ROOM MODULES
CONCRETE FRAME | COLUMNS AND REINFORCED U-BEAMS
CONCRETE BASE | FLOORING AND FOUNDATIONS
Ground Floor Plan | Printmaking Facilities
Section A
Section B
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Section C
Structural Section | Section B
HEALTH
M O D E L MAT E R I A L I T Y
Social City Our masterplan seeks to create a place of connectivity and inclusion by utilising public architectures and maximising green spaces and active program. The site inspired us to rethink the role of health and health care architecture in the city. Rather than places of seclusion and introversion, we aim to bring the issues of social health; community relationships, safety and progress, to the forefront of Edinburgh’s political and urban agenda. Each project offers an element of public infrastructure and social opportunity to the masterplan. Open green spaces, sports complexes and activities bridge the gap between the built environment. As well as interconnecting the projects and existing fabric of Leith Walk to the wider city.
U R B A N FA B R I C
SI TE OUTLI NE
B I K E LANE
B US R OUTE
PEDESTRI AN R OUTE
TR AM
T H R E SH O L D S SI TE OUTLI NE
THRESHOLDS
C ARPE T
B UI LDI NG PR OPOSALS
Group Members 1. Sara Sako 2. Alex Wilson 3. Josh Siu 4. Andrew Lang 5. Naomi Rubbra
CO U R T YA R D V I E W
MAST ER PLAN
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C ARP E T
N OR TH S O U T H S E C T I O N
E A S T WE S T S E C T I O N
GR EEN SPACE
PATHWAYS
PR OGR AM M E
Health 1 - Sara Sako
(RE)ENGAGEMENT
EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC
The homeless women in Leith will be provided with accommodayion yo deal with their issues associated with homelessness as well as providing the women with the right tools in order for them to re-integrate in society. The project is about one woman helping the next, by engaging the residents in activities and services for other homeless women, and applying the idea of (re)engagement to these women’s stay.
EXTERIOR VIEW FROM LEITH WALK
INTERIOR VIEW OF MARKET HALL
PROTAGONIST ROOM WALL BUILD UP 21 mm larch boarding; 25 mm battens, 38 mm counter-battens; sealing layer; 180 mm mineral-wool thermal insulation; convection barrier; 120 mm CLT wall
PERSPECTIVE SECTION
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G R OU N D FLOOR PL AN
SE CON D FLOOR PL AN
FOU R TH FLOOR PL AN
Health 2 - Alexandra Wilson
Exploded Structural Layers
Leith Sanctuary This project aims to provide an important step in the life of the displaced; by sheltering families of refugees for a few years while they work to get their affairs in order, I aim to bring the stateless a little close to their most simple and basic human needs. This scheme proposes to re-use a ‘lost space’ within Leith, to provide shelter and care - both medical and social - to one of the most vulnerable and rejected minorities of this world. Additionally, the regeneration of a hisotric piece of decaying urban landscape, combined with the introduction of the green spaces hopes to provide a positive contribution to the city of Edinburgh.
Winter
PASSIVE SOLAR ENERGY AIR TO AIR HEAT PUMP
MIN 16O
TEMPERED ENVIRONEMENT
MIN 14O
RAINWATER COLLECTION IRRIGATION OF PLANTS
EARTH TUBES
ENVIRONMENTAL SECTIONS
COOLING
CROSS VENTILATION
SOLAR GAIN (PHOTOVOLTAICS)
MAX 22O
MAX 25O
RAINWATER COLLECTION IRRIGATION OF PLANTS
EARTH TUBES
Summer
Sectional Perspective
Model Details
Interior Visualisations
Model Structual Layers
Health 3 - Joshua Siu
Home for The Elderly
Protagonist Bedroom I
Timber and concrete are two new materials added to the existing steel structure of the tram shed and the brick gable walls enclosing it. A new set of timber frame structure is introduced adjcent to the tram shed to encourage a closer interaction with the central green designed during the master planning stage. The existing brick wall between the two framed structures are penetrated to allow movements between the two spaces. A new brick wall facade, facing North, is designed informed by the pattern of the penetration of the existing. Lastly, a large concrete church is added, closing up an existing opening (fenced) towards the site, concluding the design with a climax with its highest point at 25 metres above ground level. The protagonist bedrooms are located in the tram shed, in the very centre of the entire design, allowing easy and direct access towards all activity spaces. The activities are designed to fulfill everyday life of a retired elderly person, ranging from quiet and calm activities like playing chess to more phyiscally-demanding like dancing, all to promote a healthy and balanced lifestyle.
Exploded Axonometric
Tectonic Expression
Protagonist Bedroom II
Tram Shed I
Tram Shed II
Visual Activity Space in Timber Frame Structure
Visual Terrace in Tram Shed
Axonometric on Site
Section with Exploded Construction Details
Cycling into the complex
Design Abstract
Protagonist
Church; visual connection within and out
Different Spaces in Tram Shed
Verticality in Tram Shed
Health 4 - Andrew Lang
Re-juven (ate) (ile) With a masterplan dedicated to improving the environmental and social health of the surrounding area and community, this project is more specifically aimed at the areas of physical and mental health targeting diet and lifestyle and a way of projecting worth on the individual. The building is to accommodate a link between public and private and aims to approach these diferences through tectonic quality. The programme is an initiative that aims to train these protagonists for work through the skills learned and developed through sport. The protagonist is in need of a safe place to stay, where alcohol and drug consumption do not take a stranglehold and where their physical and mental health are cared for through a changed lifestyle in this scheme.
Individual room (closed)
Individual room (open)
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Health 5 - Naomi Rubbra
BLOCK PARTY An activist in the face of the housing crisis yet passive in its concept to heal broken urban fabric, BLOCK PARTY seeks to redefine urban development in light of the importance of social health and well-being in our cities. The Agenda has undergone an exploration across three scales of inquiry; the masterplan, the community, and the plot. These three studies form the foundations of the scheme, and have stirred a dialogue and interest in the community of Leith beyond my original expectations. The project maps this journey, my findings and my idea for how best to cure lost spaces in the precious and competitive footprint of the city; to benefit the people who already live in and around the block, and serve as an opportunity for the people at the most vulnerable fringes of our cities today.
BLOCK PARTY MAY 3 2017
1 BRICK + STEEL SUPPORT
POLYCARBONATE SCREEN WATER PERMEABLE OPAQUE
2 HYBRID GLULAM + STEEL
1:20 Detail
3 MEDIUM FAMILY UNIT
4 STUDENT LIVING UNIT
5 TIMBER PIVOT JOINTS
POLYCARBONATE SCREEN IMPERMEABLE CLEAR
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TIMBER CONSTRUCTION NO GLUE PIVOT JOINTS PLASTER, PLYWOOD + MDF
PRODUCTION
Production Due to the site’s strong historical connection to production and industry, the Production Masterplan looks at reintegrating this historical link back into the modern day city, whilst simultaneously creating a central hub for the community in this large, lost space of Leith. As large scale production now takes place outside of the city, small scale artisan industry has taken its place on the site, allowing for smaller building footprints and more public space. The hierarchy of public squares and streets throughout the masterplan mirrors the internalised communal square seen in the city blocks, and all direct the public to the main market hall - situated in the remains of the industrial tram shed. Within this market, produce from each individual design can be sold: artisan beer, Scottish-Italo ice cream, bespoke weaving, hand crafted furniture, and wooden goods.
Group Members 1. Lucy Blackstone 2. Oliver Hay 3. Rebecca Robertson 4. Clyde Russell 5. Fengyi Wang
Historic Industrial Photographs
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Site: Historic
Site: Removals
Elevation A-A
Section A-A
Elevation B-B
Site: Proposed
Site: Public Spaces
Site: Movement
Site: Deliveries
Production 1 - Lucy Blackstone
Edinburgh Furniture Workshop The principal output of the production centre will be bespoke furniture, conceptualised and crafted from the purpose built Edinburgh Furniture Workshop. The two protagonists - Masters and Apprentices in timber and metal product design and fabrication - are provided with working a living space to develop their trade. Workshops such as these are not common and can be expensive, this project aims to provide the protagonists with the opportunity to explore techniques and participate in public exhibits on site. The rich history of metal and timber production on site still exists today, thus the proposal for a 3900sqm project over four stories will have a connection to the existing industries on site, attracting young professionals to the area. Large, flexible working spaces in a stereotomic concrete mass, are coupled with a light-weight steel structure and corten cladding. An internal street draws natural light into the space - bridging the gap between old and new and reviving the past production of the site.
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Production 2 - Oliver Hay
Vicca’s Ice Cream The design of the Vicca ice cream factory is an architecture with an ambition to support both the everyday production of traditional Italian ice cream, and provide opportunity for the consumption of a rich and diverse Italo – Scottish culture. The tectonic reflects the contrasting elements of production and consumption in the narrative. The rigor and functionality of steel reflects the efficiency of producing ice cream. This contrasts with a more playful and sculpted concrete and terrazzo language that reflects the consumption of ice cream itself and the culture that comes with it.
Steel upper
Concrete base
Consolodated steel and concrete
Engagement with site
Production 3 - Rebecca Robertson
Leith Walk Weavery This project aims to house Leith’s interesting weaving production community, and the designers who seek to learn more about this production process. The building’s tectonic ambition stems from the strong essence of the verticality and horizontality of the act of weaving - primary vertical strands being supported, held together and filled in by smaller, tighter-woven secondary elements. Through having a strategically gridded steel frame, spaces between these vertical columns can alter the size and place of a space, and the curving concrete ceiling and floor slabs span between these creating different hierarchies of space. This woven analogy is inherent in the building skin, as through the process of layering bricks, the textures mirror that of woven fabric as well as being a reference to the industrial use of brick. The use of large studio windows and north roof lighting contains elements of traditional studio-workshop space, and allows views onto the public square of the masterplan.
Section A-A
1:50 Sectional Model Build-up
1: 5 0 F A C A D E E L E V A T I O N A L D E T A I L
Facade Section
Facade Elevation
1:100 Structural Model
Production 4 - Clyde Russell
Tramshed Brewery ‘Tramshed Brewery’ is a proposal for a new brewery in the heart of Leith, which offers graduates from the Brewing and Distilling course at Herriot Watt University with a short placement of ‘Working learning’ to help them gain valuable experience in the industry before embarking into the real world. This proposal will use brick as a tectonic means to deliver architecture which will endure and embrace an industrial function for many years to come.
Brick Arch
Public Winter Garden
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North Facade Detail
North Facade
Production 5 - Fengyi Wang
Urban Retreat People’s well-being while they are working is a topic that is worth to explore on. This design is aiming to propose an ideal working environment for people who perceived a certain level of stress in their everyday life in the current urban environment. The interaction between built environment and the nature became a point of entry to this exploration. Contact with nature has a close relationship with people’s condition of well-being and feeling of involvement to their surrouding. While architectural space has the ability to make emphasis on particular views and create variety of spatial experience. Based on these, I have decided to design an urban retreat that involves the production from nature such as timber objects and fruit jams production. The choice of production has the aim of redefining the ‘profits’ and ‘efficiency’ aspects of production, but only to enjoy production and interpret it in a very different way.
Detailed Section
LEISURE
Leisure Square The design for the masterplan stemmed from a line of questioning which began with our interpretation of the activities surrounding Leisure. The ambition was to create a meaningful place within this abandoned area of Leith by promoting social interactions through activities of making and learning. The site is divided into two urban ‘rooms’ with a larger public square to the south, which is defined on three sides by the group’s proposals and the fourth by the tram shed. As part of the proposal, we suggest repurposing the tram shed as a tram stop in order to attract a greater number of people onto the site
Group Members 1. Andrew Chavet 2. William Guild 3. Katie Shannon
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Site Plan
Site Section
Perspective
Diagrams
Leisure 1 - Andrew Chavet
Velo City Leith A hostel with cyclists in mind. Located upon the proposed Northern Cycle Bypass and as part of the proposed Leisure Square, Velo City Leith acts as the perfect pit stop for touring cyclists keen to visit Edinburgh. Further to the provision of single and double accommodation as well as the requisite hostel spaces for shared cooking, dining and living, Velo City Leith has been designed around the needs of the cycling enthusiast, offering facilities for post-ride swimming, bike maintenance and cycling lectures.
Protagonist
Exploded Axonometric
External Perspective
Sectional Model
Short Section
Leisure 2 - William Guild
Leith: Design Lab The aim of the proposal is to create a centrepiece to the masterplan developed over the course of the project. At the scale of the city, the building should aim to celebrate this new public space and redefine Leith’s image within the wider context of Edinburgh. Furthermore, the proposal should contribute to the character of the masterplan by defining the edge condition of the urban square. To ensure the success of the wider project, the program for the proposal will focus on encouraging social interactions through the process of making. As a workshop / lab space, the design should also include a residential component to provide accommodation for designers wishing the pursue their personal projects.
Tectonic Model
Exploded Axonometric
External Perspective
Courtyard Perspective
Leisure 3 - Katie Shannon
BRICK BOX
Something Old / Something New
TWO TOWERS WITH PLINTH
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PANIONSHIP
ADJUSTMENT FOR SUNLIGHT A N D VI E W S
The site is exposed to sunlight all day, as it is situated within a city block, the access to daylight and open spaces make it a calm and peaceful place to inhabit. Close proximity to other green oases in the city and bus links to health facilities equally ground the scheme. Tectonically, the project aims to create a community, and as such it is introspective on upper floors while remaining permeable at ground level. The expression of the circulation will emphasise this.
PUNCTURE
PUBLIC FACING ARM
COOKING
CULTIVATION
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COMMUNITY
COMPANIONSHIP
COOKING
CULTIVATION
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FLOOR PLATES Post-tensioned Concrete
4 UNIT CLUSTER Interlocking Individual rooms
DIVIDERS Enclosing and merging spaces
STRUCTURE Brick Masonry - English Bond
GROUND PLANE Landscaped for Access
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SXPLODED STRUCTURE
FOURTH FLOOR
THIRD FLOOR
SECOND FLOOR
FIRST FLOOR
GROUND FLOOR
SXPLODED FLOOR PLATES
Tectonics Unit 2 - 2017
Lost Spaces
UNIT 2 Students (L-R) Leisure
Edinburgh Tramway Speculations
William Guild Andrew Chavet (Katie Shannon)
Tutors:
Production
Jack Green Nicky Thomson Guests: Robin Livingston Pierre Forissier Nick Mills Mark Dawson (Ivan Marquez)
Clyde Russell Oliver Hay Rebecca Robertson Lucy Blackstone Fengyi Wang Health Andrew Lang Joshua Siu Alex Wilson Sara Sako Naomi Rubbra Education Wayne Zhang Romila Strub Emmy Rimmereid Rachel Briglio
ESALA - The University of Edinburgh 2017