Art and Heritage Online Database

Collection: Scott Sutherland School of Architecture Collection
Object Type: Architectural Drawing CAD
Artist/Maker: Wilkie, Ross
Date: 2017
Media/Materials: CAD
Awards: RGU Architecture Purchase Award
Classification: architecture

Description:

Project Summary

Introduction

Situated on the periphery, six miles outside Aberdeen. The masterplan features a grid framework that has been proposed as a vehicle for expansion along the new city bypass.

The units aim was to develop alternative solutions to mass volume housing. Solutions that consider their context and environmental conditions. Higher density alternatives that contribute towards a masterplan that sets out to achieve amenity and accessibility for all.


Brief

The project brief was focused around the neighbouring research institutes and proposes housing for researchers whilst meeting the density ambitions of our masterplan

The researchers study agriculture and the environment. They find therapy in plantsmanship and require space enough to grow their own plants and crops. The researchers are organised, responsible individuals that desire to live as part of a community where they are intertwined in each others social lives. The power to govern their own space and manage their community as they see fit is fundamental to the way they want to live.

The researchers wish to minimise living space and pool together resources as a community to afford a variety of shared facilities. Facilities that would be otherwise unattainable to a single household. They intend to run a car share and so do not require a parking space per residence.

The residents have deemed it necessary that there is workshop space within the block which they can use to craft and repair belongings.

The neighbouring institutes specify that there must be a block to house temporary stay researchers.

Object Number: ABDRG2017,44.1