Aino Larvala 

To ensure that Earth’s capacity can continue to sustain us in the future, we need to change our consumption habits and the narrative around it. This project titled Glasgow City Workshop proposes a concept for an accessible and inclusive space that strives to prolong the lifecycle of household objects by repairing and upcycling them in one convenient spot. The proposal explores how design could be used innovatively in a transition to a post-consumption world. The aim of this project is to challenge the ownership-based economy and promote a sharing-based economy by providing tools, space, and skills for the citizens. Instead of getting stimulation from buying ready-made products, the proposed space provides stimulation in the process of embedding value on retaining objects. The project reimagines department stores by replacing purchases with repair and remake in an empty commercial unit in the city centre. Creating a new market for such non-consumptive activities would avoid the environmental impact of buying new products and this should become the new normal in the shift to circular economy.

Bianka Laura Bizubova

The Acre House is a 2-storey Italianate villa with a 3-stage tower. It was built in about 1880 no one seems to know who the house was built for and by whom. It fell out of use in 2004. It is still lying empty, and damaged by sever fires. I have chosen this site based on the atmosphere and energy of the place. I was mesmerised by the Acre house’s hidden value of peaceful and energetic feeling even if it was left to dilapidate. Entering the site grounds, you forget you are still in an urban area. It is a very mysterious nature-like surrounding. My motive is an innovative renovation and revitalization of this building. Even in ruins, their foundations prove robust enough to support a new structure for new generations. My proposal is an adaptive reuse proposal using the ruin’s envelope.

Caitlyn Rintoul

Concept: A female-focused co-working space with nursery. Typology : Women’s / non-binary / trans co-working space defined as: a collaborative space promoting accessibility, community, collaboration, and sociality. What is co-working? : Co-working is a work style that involves sharing a work environment with other professionals who may be self-employed, freelancers, or working for different companies. Why? : Witnessing my mother’s struggles to balance work and raising a family has given me insight into the challenges that many mothers face after the birth of a child. Juggling these responsibilities can be incredibly difficult, and it’s not uncommon for families to experience changes in their structure and dynamics as a result. I recognise that these issues are often systematic and cannot be addressed without broader societal changes, but this project is an attempt in the right direction to achieve equality in the workplace. Only 27.8% of mothers return to full-time work within the first three years following the birth of a baby, compared to 90% of new fathers. Who? For all working mothers who require childcare support. The nursery focuses on children aged 0-5.

Louise Clayton

The aim of this project is to design an innovative and sustainable space that enhances traditional health and wellbeing centres. These existing interiors offer environments that
are too clinical and uninviting looking that therefore have a negative effect on the user physically and psychologically. An ambition for this project is to use a combination of personal experience alongside the
public’s desires and requirements for a space that will improve their way of living through their mind, body, and soul.

Matilde Finidori

WHAT IS THE CONCEPT?
The concept of the project is a paediatric hospital integrating inclusive design and biophilic
design:
– nature enters the hospital, a large biophilic atrium is the heart of the hospital, the views from the rooms look out onto a garden
– the school and library allow children to continue their education
– recreational, artistic and cultural activities are provided
– sports activities are integrated such as horse therapy, swimming, ball games
– cooking classes are organised especially for children with eating disorders
– accompanying families are not forgotten : I would like to create a new type of public hospital by integrating parents into the care process by creating accommodation for them
– nor the staff : I would also like to create a 24-hour day care centre to enable nursing staff who work at night to look after their children
In order to allow a return on investment, certain sports activities (introduction to horse riding, aqua gym), artistic and cultural activities will be accessible to the inhabitants of the district.

AIM OF THIS PROJECT
To create a space that looks as little like a medical centre as possible.
To bring normality, joy, colour, light and communal living spaces to facilitate meetings and games between children.

Rachel Mackay

Welcome to Obscura, the new multifunctional film space and hidden cinema in the centre of Glasgow. I have long had an interest in visual environments within film; in particular how production designers and cinematographers work with form, colour and lighting to create immersive new environments for audiences all over the world.

Film has the ability to change our understanding of the world and each other for the better, and I aim to create a space that inspires growth and connection. Obscura is comprised of three sections – the North Rotunda, the South Rotunda, and the Tunnel which connects both Rotundas under the River Clyde. The North Rotunda, inspired by the representation of home in film, is a welcoming social space, with a cafe-bar and film museum spanning across four levels. This building hosts the hidden entrance to the Tunnel, an ever-changing immersive experience and connection to the South Rotunda. Inspired by futuristic worlds featured in films of the past, the South Rotunda is split across three levels, and features the hidden cinema, snack bar and film booths.

Stephanie Jane Cronie

Olympia House will be turned into a community support centre for women who have at some point left the prison system and are looking to build a support network. It will be used by the women to gain valuable skills for independent living through education as well as childcare facilities for women with children and social areas to continue building support networks with others in similar situations.

There will also be a recreational sensory area to decompress and ground individuals struggling with reintegrating back into society as well as an outside courtyard space and salon for pampering. The block of flats, Olympia Apartments, to the right of the building will be used as a secure accommodation for people who are finding their footing post-incarceration that require a shelter to help prevent people falling back into bad habits and to reduce recidivism. This will be an indefinite living space that will be used in conjunction with the community centre to guide them going forward. The decision to separate the community centre and living space were to give privacy to reduce a hierarchy between the people inhabiting and the causal visitors of the centre.