Civic Fabrications

Eleanor MarshallMA (Hons) Architecture

ESALA2016

Contents

Material Inversitgations Knapping

Craft Hierarchies

Urban Futures Scappling

The Found Photographs

Masterplanning Using ‘The Meanwhile’

Civic Fabrication: A Further Education College Fettlling/Arris

Dalmarnock Site Investigations

Civic Hierarchies

Material Investigations

Knapping

Material Investigations Craft Hierarchies

Using the medium of art, the ideas of civicness and craft were explored through the making of objects, with Patrick Heron’s painting

Azalea Garden used as inspiration. The essence of Heron’s original artwork Azalea Garden is the polychromatic layering of vertical

forms. The three monolithic forms were cast in plaster, a tactile technique that also represents a second theme, craft. This introduces

the notion that craft is not only something deliberate and precise, but it also contains the memory of the human hand.

Three casted forms were sculpted in mimicry of the hierarchy of rustification in the New Town of Edinburgh. The three chosen hierarchies

depict stone carving from the delicate to the rough. The three plaster objects were carved in the three styles of rustification, with the

smallest having the most delicate carving and the largest having the roughest carving.

The reveal of the embedded stones and the juxtaposition of the different styles of carving embodies both the humanistic and precise;

a vein that runs through all stages of the iterations. This produced the generative idea for the project: the juxtaposition between civic and craft.

Cast forms with embedded coloured stonesPatrick Heron, Azalea Garden, 1956

Heirarchies of Rustification Edinburgh New Town

Cast forms representing hierarchies of rustification, embedded with coloured stones

UrbanFutures

Scappling

Eleanor Marshall, Freddie Steel, Rachel Smillie, Nutthanee Banditakkarakul, Max Milton, Andy Ly

Urban FuturesThe Found Photographs

In January of 2016 on a site visit, bags of photographs were discovered beside Dalmarnock station. Bonded together by mud and

damp, when cleaned they revealed a fascinating story. The photographs chronicle the construction of the Sustainable Urban

Drainage systems in 1999. The group of photographs depicted construction workers, site surveys and live construction. The Sustain-

able Urban Drainage System (SUDS) enabled the site to be built upon today. The memory of these photographs and their signifi-

cance to the site provides a datum point for future development.

Found on Site: Construction of the Sustainable Urban Drainage System, 1999

Found on Site: The Railway Lines, 1999

Found on Site: Live Construction Site, 1999

Found on Site: The Construction Team, 1999

Urban Futures ‘Masterplanning using ‘The Meanwhile’

The site, once industrial, has been cleared and SUDS installed to decontaminate the land. The site contains a railway, a com-

munity of show people, Dalmarnock station and a sewage plant. The concept of ‘The Meanwhile’ is to immediately activate the

site for the community surrounding it. Often building work can take years or decades, but temporary structures and events can

provide instant anchors for community and development. Thus, 10, 30, 50 and 70 year masterplans have been proposed using ‘The

Meanwhile’ as their source.

Civic Fabrications: Masterplan Group Model of Dalmarnock

10 Year Masterplan

In addition to the existing infrastructure on the site, the addition of a further education college, a music and arts venue, a sports

green and the beginnings of a high street through a temporary market are proposed. An adventure playground and the establish-

ment of co-housing are started within the decade.

30 Year Masterplan

In 30 years, student housing has been built to accommodate the further education college. New build housing begins to cover a

swathe of the site, and the high street begins to establish itself with a greater permanence. ‘The Meanwhile’ continues to aid the

spread of the new community forming.

50 Year Masterplan

The sewage plant that once covered a large section of the site has been turned into a more eco friendly process. The high street

is now fully established. The co-housing model of the previous 50 years has transformed into permanent new build housing with a

greater density. The high street begins to extend further, ‘The Meanwhile’ aids this growth as in previous decades. Through this, a

new creative hub for the area is created.

70 Year Masterplan

In 70 years, the high street is established within a dense neighborhood of housing. The sewage treatment works are removed, allow-

ing commerce, residential and the civic to completely occupy the site and establish the density of Glasgow’s city centre. A trade

network, named ‘The Artisan Trade Network’ establishes a brand for the area. This complete commodification allows Dalmarnock

to become a hub for commerce and production, harking back to its previous industrial age.

10 Years

30 Years

50 Years

70 Years

Dalmarnock Station Design District

10 Years

30 Years

50 Years

70 Years

High Street Waterfront

Civic Fabrication: Further Education College

Fettling/Arris

Civic Fabrication: Further Education CollegeDalmarnock Site Investigations

The site is located between Dalmarnock Road and a railway line, and is close to Dalmarnock station. Thus, the site of the further

education college is well connected and forms an important part of the immediate fabric of central Dalmarnock. As of early 2016,

the site is derelict and covered in refuse. There is however, the memory of a lost Dalmarnock present. The bold orange colours of

SPT are still visible, fragmented around the site. It is both the site’s industrial past and its colours that root the proposed design in the

heritage of the site. A few remaining red sandstone tenements are examples of stone buildings in the area, this establishes a con-

textual history for the concrete and red brick aesthetic for the further education college design.

Site January 2016

Site January 2016

Site January 2016

Stone Tenements in Dalmarnock

Civic Fabrication: Further Education CollegeCivic Hierarchies

The further education college is located in Dalmarnock, Glasgow. It is an area with a strong industrial heritage, and also the site of the Commonwealth Games. At the crux of the design is the tension between the civic and craft. The civic nature of the building is represented by using an industrial red brick language, the red brick faces the street and forms the approach to the building. Craft

is represented by bush-hammered ‘corduroy’ concrete, which is the language in which the workshops are expressed. A central light-flooded circulation atrium and juxtaposes and connects the civic and the craft.

Juxtaposition of civic and craft, Knapping

Location Plan 1:1000

Dalmarnock Station

Music Venue

Student Accomodation

Location on Masterplan

Dalmarn

ock

Road

1:200

1:200

1:200

Dalmarnock Road

Entrance

General Programme

Classrooms, staff and services

Circulation atrium

Break out space

Service Road

Civic Area: cafe and reception

Public realm

Workshop

Kitchen, meeting room

Eleva

tion

of c

ivic fro

nt

View from Dalmarnock Road

Massing model

Massing model

Short Section through workshop, circulation atrium and classroom spaces

Sectional study model through workshop space, circulation atrium and classrooms

Long Section through workshops and entrance space

Massing model

Interior view of entrace space

Interior view of circulation atrium

Technical Section 1:20

Sectional study model cast brick facade