INCM012 Glasgow Bid Document

INCM012 [Glaschu]

Glasgow

[Alba]

Scotland

Co-chruinneachadh Oileanaich Eòrpach na h- Ailtearachd

EASA: European Architecture Students Assembly

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Bid Team Contact Details search on issuu for INCM012Glasgow

email: incm012Glasgow@gmail.com % @44 7748 966 243 (Jack)

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Contents 5 A New Start 7

Scotland: The Country 9 Glasgow: The City 15 The Venues 27 The Event 33 Preliminary Timetable 35

Living with the Machine: The Theme 37 Transport 43 In Conclusion 51

ClĂ r-innse

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Sam Patterson Former UK NC ‘Sam Patterson is in his final year of Diploma at the GSA. He has stood as the UK National Contact within EASA for 2 years attending 4 EASA assemblies, 2 INCM's and co-organising the 2010 Manchester summer assembly. He has tutored two easa workshops, participated in the first Scottish Architecture Students Assembly and is involved with the formation of the UK wide Architecture Students Network (ASN). During this time Sam has presented EASA to the annual 5 Presidents Meeting of the UK architectural professional bodies. He has secured funding from the RIAS, RIBA, SCHOSA and Makita for EASA in the past and as part of the promotion of EASA, Sam has contributed articles to the RIAS Quarterly, BD and Mac Mag 36.

Sam brings his experience of staging events, his network and his knowledge of EASA to the team in his role of bid adviser and volunteer.’

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Kevin Chim Corrie Rounding Bid Member ‘I am extremely excited and eager at the prospect of the INCM coming to Glasgow: it makes me particularly proud being a local Glaswegian.

Throughout my life I have been involved in major public events based within the Glasgow Chinese community, which has lead me to develop key life skills that would lend themselves well to working for the EASA Team. When delegated with tasks and roles I always perform them with the utmost diligence, making me both enthusiastic and reliable. I believe my practical and confident attitude will further strengthen our skilled Scottish Team.

This opportunity will allow the other team members and me to showcase our abilities, resulting in an exceptionally proficient bid. I am also sure it will be a unique experience for us all. ‘

Josh Murphy

New Scottish NC

New Scottish NC

‘As the only female member of the team, an important job during this bid will be keeping the boys in line! I am very personable and feel that if anyone were to have any issues during the event, I would be approachable and able to effectively deal with the situation. Recently, I have been involved in organizing MASS events, as well as coordinating promotional nights for the international company, ‘Southern Comfort’. I also have experience with accountancy and have been responsible for a budget of £10,000. This, I’m sure, will be very useful when tackling the impending problems of securing funding and controlling expenditure.

Having lived in Glasgow for two years now, I feel an undeniable affiliation with the city and would be very proud to bring such an amazing event to both the GSA and the Mackintosh School of Architecture.’

‘Like the rest of the team I am enthusiastic and ambitious about the future of EASA and the opportunity that Scotland may have next year to announce itself as the place to be for Architecture students across the continent. I feel privileged to be an active part of the bid team and hope to draw from my experience of event organising and fundraising that i have gained through involvement on the Glasgow university swimming committee, the architecture schools’ student society and the school’s growing debates club.

Other Bid Support: Josh Broomer Janneke Earl Jack Hughes Rory More

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Jack Taylor

A New Start

Bid President Hard working and ready for any challenge, I am determined to bring the INCM012 to Glasgow.

The challenge to organise such an event provides me with the chance to challenge my skills and attributes whilst at the same time allowing me to work with some of my closest colleagues to carry through this event with the upmost success. From experience in school as head of the sixth form council to now being part of an ambitious MASS Bar team this year, I feel that these skills bring more than enough experience and awareness to progress the bid successfully in the right direction. My attitude has always been ‘why not? lets do it’ – Lets bring INCM012 to Glasgow.

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This year, for the first time, Scotland will represent itself at EASA alongside the now devolved Northern Irish, Welsh and English teams.

This historic shift now allows Scotland to stand independant and have 100% control of its own affairs. For us this presents us with an obvious opportunity to host an EASA event and create our own identity within the european student network. It is Scotland’s time to show what it can do and what we have to offer, developing Scotland’s separate cultural identity to that of other UK countries. It was only this past year that the UK team had more than 2 participants from Scotland. The creation of the Scottish team gives us a full quota of our own.

As a team we are relatively new to the assembly therefore we believe it naïve to think that organising the full EASA for 450 students would be the best way to make a statement within the EASA network.

Nevertheless as a young enthusiastic team we are confident in our ability’s of managing the smaller scale of an INCM. We are bidding to host this event in Glasgow in the November of 2012, We see ourselves as a very strong team., you can see qualities that every team member brings to the bid in there personal introductions on the page opposite.

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Scotland Toiseachadh as 첫r

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Highest point:

Ben Nevis (1,343 m) Lowest point:

Bed of Loch Morar, Scotland (300 m below sea level) Longest river:

Tay (193 kilometres long) Largest Lake:

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Area:

78,789 sq km Population:

5,095,969 (2010) Capital City:

Inverness

Edinburgh Major Cities:

Aberdeen Perth Edinburgh

Glasgow

Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow Official Language:

English, Scots, Scots Gaelic Anthem:

Flower of Scotland Currency:

Pound Sterling (ÂŁ) Alba

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Scotland is Famous for....

Its fresh water lochs (lakes) – there are over 600 square miles of them.

One of the most famous is Loch Ness where a mysterious monster is said to lurk in the depths of the water.

It is also famous for its clans, kilts, medieval castles, whisky as well as the poetry and songs of Robert Burns.

Theatre lovers from around the world come to Edinburgh for its famous theatre and comedy festival, ‘The Edinburgh Fringe’.

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Famous People of Scotland

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Famous Scots include: Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the actors Sean Connery, Ewan Mcgreggor and Gerard Butler. Famous musicians of Scotland include Annie Lennox, Wet Wet Wet, Travis and Simple Minds.

Government On 1 July 1999, the Scottish Parliament was opened by HM the Queen, the first Scottish Parliament for 300 years.

Scottish parliament responsibilities include social work services, health, local government and education.

Until 1603, Scotland (like England) had its own Monarch. In 1603, the King of Scotland also became the King of England ruling both countries. Scotland remained an independant country until the Union of 1707 which formed the United Kingdom (UK).

A Separate Cultural Identity Fein-Aithne Chultarachd Shònraichte

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Glasgow Am Baile Mòr

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175.5 km2 Population 592,820 (2010) Density 3,298.0 /km2 Urban Area 1,750,000 Metro Est. 2,550,000 Language English, Scots, Scots Gaelic - Edinburgh 79 km - London 566 km Area

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Meadhan a Bhaile Ghlaschu

Glasgow City Centre

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Baile na Cruinne

A World City

Glasgow as a city and as an industrial powerhouse grew out of the aftermath of the Acts of Union in 1707, Scotland gained trading access to the vast markets of the new British Empire and Glasgow became prominent in international commerce as a hub of trade to the Americas.

In its subsequent industrial era, Glasgow produced textiles, chemicals, engineered goods and steel which were exported. After extensive engineering projects to dredge and deepen the River Clyde as far as Glasgow, shipbuilding became a major industry on the upper stretches of the river, The River Clyde also became an important source of inspiration for artists, such L. S. Lowry, who wished to depict the new industrial era and the modern world.

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Stàth ri lìnn na Bànrigh Bhictoria

A Victorian Powerhouse Glasgow’s population had surpassed that of Edinburgh by 1821. The development of civic institutions accelerated and by the end of the 19th century it was known as the second city of the British Empire and was producing more than half Britain’s tonnage of shipping and a quarter of all locomotives in the world.

During this period, the construction of many of the city’s greatest architectural masterpieces and most ambitious civil engineering projects were being funded by its wealth. These enterprises included the Loch Katrine aqueduct, the underground Subway, City Chambers, Mitchell Library and Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. The city also held a series of International Exhibitions at Kelvingrove Park, in 1888, 1901 and 1911.

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The 20th century witnessed both decline and renewal in the city.

After World War I the city suffered from the impact of the Post War recession and later from the Great Depression.

This led to a rise of radical socialism such as the Red Clydeside movement.

The City had recovered by the outbreak of World War II and grew through the post-war boom that lasted through to the 1950s.

The Tenemant is the definiton of the Glasgow housing stock - a direct result of the deep and rapid urbanisation experienced in the 19th Century.

Teanamant

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By the 1960s, a lack of investment and innovation led to Glasgow entering a lengthy period of relative economic decline and rapid de-industrialisation leading to high unemployment, urban decay, population decline, welfare dependency and poor health for the city’s inhabitants.

By the late 80s there had been a significant resurgence in Glasgow’s economic fortunes. The ‘Glasgow’s miles better’ campaign and opening of the Burrell Collection in 1983 along with the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in ‘85 facilitated Glasgow’s new role as a European centre for business services and finance; promoting an increase in tourism and investment. This has gained momentum in the legacy of the city’s Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988, its status as European City of Culture in 1990, and continued attempts to diversify the City’s economy.

Stoidhle Glaschu ùr

The New Glasgow Style

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Chipperfield

Foster

This economic revival has continued into the 21st century with the ongoing regeneration of inner-city areas including the large-scale Clyde Waterfront Regeneration.

Over the past 15 years, many of the world’s most successful architects have built in Glasgow, further establishing it as a centre for architectue on the world stage.

No city in Europe can claim to have projects completed by so many world class architects in such small proximity of each other.

Hadid

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Glasgow has many live music venues, pubs and clubs. Some of the city’s more well-known sites include the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, the SECC, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut (where Oasis were spotted and signed), the Queen Margaret Union (who have Kurt Cobain’s footprint locked in a safe) and the Barrowland; a ballroom converted into a live music space. More recent mid-sized venues include ABC and the O2 Academy, which plays host to a wide range of acts.

Baile Ciùil

A City of Music

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There are also a large number of smaller places which host many musicians. These include Stereo, 13th Note and Nice N Sleazy.

The MOBO Awards were held at the SECC on 30 September 2009, making Glasgow the first city outside of London to host the event since its inception.

In recent years, the music scene has been further bolstered by the success of bands such as Biffy Clyro, Franz Ferdinand, Mogwai, Snow Patrol and Travis. Since 2008, the city of Glasgow has been a UNESCO World City of Music.

In addition to its fertile live music scene, Glasgow is commonly recognised as the UK’s most vibrant clubbing city outside London, with house and techno high on the menu at clubs.

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Baile Spòrs

A City of Sport

Glasgow has gained an international reputation in recent years for the provision of sport, having recieved the accolade of UK City of Sport and the title of European Capital of Sport in 2003.

Football forms the main focus of the city’s sporting community, with the two most succesful SPL Teams, Rangers and Celtic competing four times a year in the world famous ‘Old Firm’ game. The City boasts three 50,000+ seater stadia.

Glasgow’s sporting future is securely focused on being the host city for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

Currently large scale construction and renovation of venues all over the city is taking place to transform areas in need of regeneration into world class places to host this event.

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Tramway One of our chief backers in this bid is ‘Glasgow Life’. This organisation owns and maintains many of Glasgow’s prime cultural sites giving us the opportunity to use some fantastic spaces for architectural discussion that are close to the city centre.

The ‘Tramway’ is a perfoming and visual arts centre; which since being established in 1988 has evolved into an important space for the arts in Glasgow and Scotland. The award-winning Tramway houses many unique and versatile spaces. It boasts open plan meeting spaces, a cafe/bar, a huge theatre, hidden gardens and large, flexible exhibition spaces capable of meeting the needs of demanding projects and ambitious ideas.

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The upper level of the building links to the Scottish Ballet Headquarters that has showers and changing facilities. The theatre would be used for lectures and live music, the cafe space for discussion, studios for workshops and the exhibition space for accomodation. The main exhibition space in the Tramway is one of Europes largest at 1030m2, which is flexible and multi-functional.

We would also utilise the diverse nature of the cityscape to host workshops where appropriate.

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Charles Rennie Mackintosh won the competition to redesign the Art School, the building was completed in two phases, the first in 1899 and the second in 1909.

Sited at the edge of a steep gradient on Renfrew Street, Glasgow School of Art is an imposing and remarkable structure, stretching along an entire block.

The building is a prime example of Mackintosh’s eclectic architectural style, bearing influences from Scottish baronial architecture and art nouveau. The exquisitely designed symbolism in the building features floral and geometric motifs in iron work, interior tiles and fittings. Visitors to one of the world’s finest art schools will notice that Rennie Mackintosh selected contemporary materials and techniques in the design of his former place of study, particularly the large and industrial braced windows.

The School plan is an elongated ‘E’ shape featuring corridors along the spine of the building. This links the large studios on the street –side to offices and ancillary rooms situated at the rear. The two largest rooms are located at both the east and west side, most significantly the two-story library on the west.

The main entrance is located slightly off centre and visitors will notice the striking art nouveau arch before the entrance steps. The interiors are designed with equal ingenuity in collaboration with Mackintosh’s wife, Margaret Macdonald. Art nouveau floral and geometric emblems in ots detailing add scale and colour to the rooms and studios.

The Glasgow School of Art

As one of our main supporters, the GSA has given us permission for full use of required facilties for the week, pending avaliability.

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We will utilise Glasgow’s fantastic architectural heritage to provide a truly enthralling environment for discussion about architecture.

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House for an Art Lover In 1901 Charles Rennie Mackintosh entered a German-based competition to design a ‘Grand Residence for an Art Lover’. The rules stated that ‘only genuinely original modern designs will be considered’.

The rules of the competition were comprehensive and included a specification of client requirements such as room sizes, position of staircases, external finishes and a maximum cost. The rules also indicated a serious intention of the original promoter to build the winning design. Within these practical constraints, Mackintosh and Macdonald were able to exercise considerable freedom of design expression.

In the event, the Mackintosh entry was disqualified from the competition on the grounds of incomplete submission, but after three required interior perspectives were completed and submitted, the designs were awarded a purchase prize for ‘their pronounced personal quality, their novel and austere form and the uniform configuration of interior and exterior’. .

The Mackintosh competition entry has been admired by academics and architects alike over the last century. It was in 1987 that Glasgow civil engineer Graham Roxburgh conceived and developed the idea of building the House for an Art Lover, from the competition drawings, on a site he had identified in Bellahouston Park Glasgow.

His dream to build the House for an Art Lover became a reality in 1990 when the building exterior and much of the interior and craftwork were completed by his remarkable team of architects, designers, builders and craftsmen.

Situated within the beautiful landscape of Bellahouston Park, the House for an Art Lover today represents one of Glasgow’s most popular cultural and corporate assets.

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3mh - 12mh An t-Samhain 2012

3rd - 12th November 2012 (TBC) An Tachartas

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Afternoon

Morning Saturday

ARRIVAL

Sunday

Tours of Glasgow

Monday

EASA014 Presentations

Tuesday INCM013 Presentations

Arrival Town

EASA014 Debate INCM013 Debate

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Evening INCM Organisers Workshop Welcome Hall

Night

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Night Out - Sub Club Movie Night Night Out - West End Night Out - Sauchiehall Street

Bonfire Night/ Final Party

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Clàr-ama Tòiseachail

Lighthouse Event

Preliminary Timetable

Summaries from Past events/ Introductions to Future events

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A bhith beò leis an Inneal

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‘Living with the Machine’: this is the heading under which all discussions, lectures and debates will relate to ...

Like many european cities Glasgow has experienced the uncomfortable shift from industrial to postindustrial; from the City as a manufacturing base to a 21st century City that requires a whole host of different functions that coalesce and overlap.

Progress?

Charing Cross, Glasgow City Centre 1960

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Slum Clearance The Industrial Revolution went very much further than the invention of new machines; it changed society in Scotland and abroad forever. However it it did a great deal more; the industrial revolution , clearly one of the most important factors in shaping British history, also gave Europe two great systems of thought; economic science and its antithesis, socialism.

In the post-industrial melee of architectural thought, European cities such as Glasgow were severely damaged: the human notions of family and community suffered at the hands of developers and poorly thought out ‘master-plans’ for cities became commonplace.

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1970 As the current financial revolution now begins to slow and new waves of political thought begin to hit our Parliaments and streets, how do we as architects respond to these changes to ensure the maintenance and continued success of our cities? ‘Living with the Machine’ will concern itself with the past whilst looking towards the future in the hope that the new generation of architects can learn from previous mistakes in order to tackle emerging issues.

Comprehensive Redevlopment

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Glasgow more than most cities has been badly affected by piecemeal planning laws throughout the last few centuries. Most of these laws have been little more than a rebranding of the notion to tackle the symptoms rather than address the causes of problems.

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As a result the Glasgow of today sees Victorian apartments facing busy motorways, abandoned high rises and under-used public spaces. Despite this Glasgow has managed to keep its excellent spirit and unique humour, and in so doing has retained its robust identity: Glasgow presents itself as the perfect place to host a series of lectures and debates on ‘Living with the Machine’.

Under the banner of the INCM our plan is to open up the series of lectures and debates to all Scottish architecture schools, revitalising the student community in Scotland and bringing together those architects, collectives, trusts, boards and committees that our Country must come to be proud of.

Renewal?

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Còmhdhail

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Edinburgh Highlands and the Western Isles

M8 (M898)

M8 Edinburgh

M74 South (London/ Wales/ England)

M77

Stranraer (Northern Island BOAT)

Glasgow City Area Motorways Railways River

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South (London/ Wales/ England)

Parks Development Areas

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Full International Links via London Airports

Direct Flights London to Glasgow 1hr to Glasgow

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Inverness Western Isles Aberdeen Stirling Dundee

Glasgow Central/ Queen Street =

Haymarket =

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Manchester (MAN Liverpool Birmingham (BHX Bristol Cardiff London ( LHR, LGW

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EDI

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London

4hr

Brussels Paris

5.45hr 6hr

Cologne

8hr

Amsterdam

8.15 hr

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Seyoisfjorour LOST COUNTRY

Torshaven Lerwick Scrabster Stromness

Bergen

Aberdeen Belfast/ Rosyth Larne Stranraer

Hantstholm

Zeebrugge

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agus nuair a tha thu an seo

and for when you are here

The Clockwork Orange

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Mar Co-dh첫nadh

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‘Big city Glasgow. Big in a way that Chicago, London and New York feel big. Something to do with the scale and ambition of its principal buildings, the determined grid-iron plan of its central streets, its beetling black cabs, 24-hour bustle, underground railway (‘the Clockwork Orange’), cocksure street life and a local accent as distinct as that of Bow or the Bronx.’

Jonathan Glancey- The Guardian – Chief Architecture Critic

We feel that we have a strong bid; an interesting and relevant theme, an exciting timetable and a great city.

The quote above may make you want to experience the city. Maybe it is the cities architectural heritage, or even maybe an interest in visiting this fascinating country. I however feel a personal endorsement from me and the rest of the team is most valued.

Since arriving in Glasgow and Scotland two years ago, I have never wanted to be anywhere else. As an architecture student, the City is enthralling – it serves as a living environment for architectural education in its complex layers of history. Glasgow is perfect for me, the nightlife is unique and the energy of the streets and its citizens is unrelenting.

The best outcome of bringing INCM012 to Glasgow would be introducing this city to you all.

Jack Taylor Bid President

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Josh Murphy New Scottish NC

Corrie Rounding New Scottish NC

Kevin Chim Bid Member

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Sin a thuirt iad.

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