The Glowing Network

Intertwining food within labour will restore Glasgow as a food and produce market town by increasing its on-site production and exchange of food between its residents, the public and the market stalls/commercial outlets. Both the public and private spaces within the scheme celebrate the rituals of cooking, eating and growing. Recreating a community who grow, eat, and cook together will help build a lively, sustainable, and selfsufficient community on site at the Barras.

This way of living aims to re-instate the historic links to water and agriculture in Calton as well as re-connecting us to the origins of what we consume. Creating a new network based around food production will help re-educate a population on healthier diets during an obesity crisis, reduce plastic waste production during a global plastic pollution crisis and help cut carbon emissions during a climate crisis – all problems which are at tipping point in today s global society.

Calton Climatrium NANCY MARRS

Calton’s Climatorium, consisting of a school and cultural centre, will teach Calton, Glasgow, and the wider country context, the importance of green spaces and urban biodiversity when looking into the climate crisis.

Coronavirus has prompted increasing studies which highlight the lack of green, accessible space within our cities, especially in deprived areas, and its consequential negative impacts on our health and well-being. This building will give the power of regeneration back to the community by educating the users on how to redevelop nearby vacant plots of land to increase urban biodiversity. It will also strive to provide more opportunities for children within the area through outdoor learning spaces which teach a new generation the importance of climate change mitigation.

The programme aims to expand the current climate change education programme for all whilst giving back to the immediate surrounding population by providing a wider range of good quality green spaces which positively impacts their health and wellbeing.

Urban Building: A Gallery in the East End OLIVIA

BISSELL

This Gallery in the East End of Glasgow explores the celebration of a culture of art and making in the East End of Glasgow.

Taking influence from other civic exhibition spaces around the city, cultivating an accessible space for the showcasing of local and current art, whilst supporting the archival experience of the historic memory of artistry in the East End. The GIA festival supports the scheme on a nationwide scale, with the building acting as a hub space for this event, as well as the rich artistic heritage of the East End grounding it into its site in the Barras. Although it’s core purpose is in showcasing varied and relevant exhibits from local artists and community projects.

The footprint of the building infills the site amongst a collection of existing buildings, completing the corners of the block whilst maintaining an accessible and permeable facade. Hosting a series of gallery spaces, interweaving lobby spaces, archival rooms on upper levels, a theatre and humble courtyards creating space for the gallery experience to flow into.

The programme of past and present is echoed in the contrast of lightweight and monolithic structure, and the lightness and darkness of space. Contrasting atmospheres arranged programmatically create a journey through the scheme as inspiring as the experience of the art, media and artefacts displayed within it; with ground floor galleries capturing bright and ethereal space in contrast with the archival and theatre spaces capturing darker, moodier atmospheres.

The scheme’s ethereal and intimate atmospheres contrast with the vibrancy and buzz of the Barra’s Market and music venues, celebrating the beauty the climate has on the built environment.