Core Principles MAXIMISING NATURAL LIGHT. - Extensive southern exporsure to reduce artificial
lighting, create “sun buffer zones� and utilise solar gains.
- ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE
The site is surrounded by the buzzing Merchant city. We decided to create a permeable barrier around the residential area to create a semi-private threshold and preserve the established civic space adjacent to Merchant square.
Create a more self sufficient economic community with greater immunity to economic depression; can resist commecial retraction to Buchanan street.
- CULTURAL INTEGRATION
Try to combat the effects of gentrification with a variety of housing types and prices but offering spaces for communal intergation between inhabitant types and privacy to encourage new communities to flourish.
- THREE DIMENSIONAL PLANNING
Vertical planes of pedestrian infrastructure to indicate levels of privacy and allow for a semmi-private courtyard.
We decided to create an avenue connecting the Merchant city to Trongate creating a link between the two areas.
Group Masterplan Merchant City, Glasgow
Jessica Gaudi Cowan
Year 3