The Agora of Glasgow
June 8, 2021 6:35 pm Comments Off on The Agora of Glasgow“At the end of the day, the protests change the narration of the city,” –... View Article
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Health, Ecology and Civic Life in Rainforest City
June 3, 2021 9:08 pm Comments Off on Health, Ecology and Civic Life in Rainforest CityThe space of the city can be said to be defined by our relationship to... View Article
The Acropolis of New Industrial Education
June 3, 2021 9:07 pm Comments Off on The Acropolis of New Industrial EducationThis thesis aims to respond to two juxtaposing ideas and interests that are present within... View Article
A Dear Green Place
June 3, 2021 9:05 pm Comments Off on A Dear Green PlaceThis thesis argues that while society influences architecture, architecture in turn conditions us through the... View Article
Past Forward
June 3, 2021 9:04 pm Comments Off on Past ForwardDerelict land and loss of identity are the common sore points for post-industrial cities. The... View Article
Bridgegate Market Meets the Union Highline
June 3, 2021 9:03 pm Comments Off on Bridgegate Market Meets the Union HighlineGlasgow’s history is shown through what’s left behind: the cranes that still sit along Clyde... View Article
A Material Algorithm: The Library as Word and World
June 3, 2021 9:01 pm Comments Off on A Material Algorithm: The Library as Word and WorldThe thesis takes basis in Jorge Luis Borges story ‘The Library of Babel’ where the... View Article
Govan Green Hub
June 3, 2021 8:58 pm Comments Off on Govan Green HubRapid urbanisation breaks the balance between nature and the city. It leads to the occupation... View Article
De-Scaling the City
June 3, 2021 8:49 pm Comments Off on De-Scaling the CityWe all occupy the places of people who have gone before us; those never known,... View Article
The Forgotten: Loss and Memory during the Pandemic
June 3, 2021 8:41 pm Comments Off on The Forgotten: Loss and Memory during the PandemicMany people have suffered different kinds of losses during the pandemic, some have lost family,... View Article
The Atlas of the North
June 3, 2021 8:37 pm Comments Off on The Atlas of the NorthTo preserve fragments of a disappearing Glasgow through a Monument to immortalise the lost and... View Article
Manifesto for Scarcity and Abundance
June 3, 2021 8:34 pm Comments Off on Manifesto for Scarcity and AbundanceThis thesis seeks to propose a controversial economy that profits from climate change to the... View Article
Autonomy through Modular Design, Supported by Industry and the Arts
June 3, 2021 8:30 pm Comments Off on Autonomy through Modular Design, Supported by Industry and the ArtsThe relationship between Living and Working in the city is in constant flux. As society... View Article
Mersus Memoria: Storytelling Underground
June 3, 2021 8:28 pm Comments Off on Mersus Memoria: Storytelling UndergroundOnce upon a time, Mersus Memoria began its life as two thesis ideas responding to... View Article
A Timber Academy for the Emerging Knowledge City
June 3, 2021 8:25 pm Comments Off on A Timber Academy for the Emerging Knowledge CityIn a post-pandemic world, the city centre of Glasgow is at risk of becoming a... View Article
In Place but out of Time
June 3, 2021 8:21 pm Comments Off on In Place but out of TimeIt has been proposed that Glasgow is a proto-knowledge city, reliant on its emergent knowledge... View Article
The Ecozoic: Herbarium of Reconnections
June 3, 2021 8:20 pm Comments Off on The Ecozoic: Herbarium of ReconnectionsWe are in the Anthropocene Era: a human-revolving society of mass consumption and lack of... View Article
Re-Made Nature
June 3, 2021 8:19 pm Comments Off on Re-Made NatureNatural resources are drawn from environments aggressively and with disregard toward the damage inflicted on... View Article
How can Successful River Edge Management Re-Activate the River Banks, Foster Future Developments and Reconnect the City?
June 3, 2021 8:18 pm Comments Off on How can Successful River Edge Management Re-Activate the River Banks, Foster Future Developments and Reconnect the City?The history of Glasgow and the Clyde are closely entwined, one wouldn’t truly exist without... View Article
The Urban Mantelpiece
June 3, 2021 8:10 pm Comments Off on The Urban MantelpieceThe Urban Mantelpiece is a speculative response to the the consequential effected of population displacement... View Article
Post-Industrial Re-Mediation of Scotland’s Coastal Condition
June 3, 2021 8:06 pm Comments Off on Post-Industrial Re-Mediation of Scotland’s Coastal ConditionThe Final Design Thesis considers the architectural relationship between the built and natural environment, and... View Article
The Child in the City
June 3, 2021 8:00 pm Comments Off on The Child in the CityIn modern society the design of spaces for play remains lost within a realm of... View Article
Beyond Barlinnie
June 3, 2021 7:58 pm Comments Off on Beyond Barlinnie“Every building creates associations in the mind of the beholder” (Nikolaus Pevsner) There are few... View Article
Opening the Edge
June 3, 2021 7:56 pm Comments Off on Opening the EdgeWe are facing a climate crisis that requires us to rethink about how we live... View Article
Creating Environments for People to Live ‘With’ rather than ‘In’
June 3, 2021 7:54 pm Comments Off on Creating Environments for People to Live ‘With’ rather than ‘In’Using landscape and context to inform the design process, how can we create a harmonious... View Article
(Un)natural Urban Seed
June 3, 2021 7:52 pm Comments Off on (Un)natural Urban SeedThis thesis speculates on the future of the urban city. By 2050 it is estimated... View Article
Return to Earth
June 3, 2021 7:42 pm Comments Off on Return to EarthThe year 2020 has left us facing a world we don’t recognise, we have been... View Article
Glasgow Mega City
June 3, 2021 7:39 pm Comments Off on Glasgow Mega CityGlasgow is a city of relatively low lying and small scale buildings compared to other... View Article
In the Edge
June 3, 2021 7:38 pm Comments Off on In the EdgeGlasgow is host to a breadth of challenging liminal spaces engendered by extreme physical boundaries... View Article
Remembering the Dark Past
June 3, 2021 7:37 pm Comments Off on Remembering the Dark PastGlasgow has a dark past associated with the transatlantic slave trade. Amid the rise of... View Article
A New Kinetic Architectural Approach for the Provision of Amenities in Glasgow
June 3, 2021 7:35 pm Comments Off on A New Kinetic Architectural Approach for the Provision of Amenities in GlasgowCovid-19 has exposed and exacerbated great inequalities across the UK: the more deprived the area,... View Article
The Living Artefact: A Space for Connection through Storytelling
June 3, 2021 5:16 pm Comments Off on The Living Artefact: A Space for Connection through StorytellingThis thesis investigates how reconfiguring a structure of historical significance can create a node of... View Article
Food for the Open City
June 3, 2021 5:14 pm Comments Off on Food for the Open CityContinuing on the themes of Richard Sennett’s Open City, the thesis acknowledges public space, movement... View Article
Situated Approaches to Urban Regeneration
June 3, 2021 5:13 pm Comments Off on Situated Approaches to Urban RegenerationAll across Glasgow’s post-industrial landscape, vital structures of the past are decaying and new ecologies... View Article
Between Form and Life
June 3, 2021 5:11 pm Comments Off on Between Form and LifeThe thesis explores the interconnection between patterns of urban form and the creation of livable... View Article
Commonplace: Terra Firma
June 3, 2021 5:10 pm Comments Off on Commonplace: Terra FirmaThe language around migration in many western countries have been weaponised with terms such as... View Article
Glasgow’s Show Quarter
June 3, 2021 5:09 pm Comments Off on Glasgow’s Show QuarterThe show people of Scotland have an incredibly rich history and have been providing services... View Article
Urban Hybrid: The Redesign of the Urban Block
June 3, 2021 5:07 pm Comments Off on Urban Hybrid: The Redesign of the Urban BlockAs the contemporary city advances to the digital age, it shifts away from the previously... View Article
The Child’s City
June 3, 2021 5:07 pm Comments Off on The Child’s CityThe current bubble wrapping of children and increased focus on risk reduction has seen a... View Article
Assembling Communities by Disassembly
June 3, 2021 4:28 pm Comments Off on Assembling Communities by DisassemblyToday’s construction industry mainly functions within the principles of the linear economy. This finite one-way... View Article
Connecting through Fragmented Landscapes
June 3, 2021 4:26 pm Comments Off on Connecting through Fragmented LandscapesHistorically a site of extraction and only recently incorporated into the city, Easterhouse sits on... View Article
Industry, Landscape and the City
June 3, 2021 4:25 pm Comments Off on Industry, Landscape and the CityFor as long as cities have existed, they have held a relationship both productive and... View Article
Under the M74: Celebrating Glasgow’s Gaps
June 3, 2021 4:23 pm Comments Off on Under the M74: Celebrating Glasgow’s GapsHow can building upon existing urban and cultural fabric revitalise local centres and create sense... View Article
Perception of Permanance
June 3, 2021 4:20 pm Comments Off on Perception of PermananceThe vast body of scientific research shows we are causing irreversible damage to our environment,... View Article
A Place for Culinary Exchange
June 3, 2021 4:16 pm Comments Off on A Place for Culinary ExchangeIntervening in the existing built fabric to represent the migrant cultures of Glasgow through a... View Article
A City Defined by Sound
June 3, 2021 4:12 pm Comments Off on A City Defined by SoundLife is experienced through listening, and place is defined through its specific soundscape. The acoustic... View Article
Reconnecting Food and the City
June 3, 2021 4:08 pm Comments Off on Reconnecting Food and the CityMy thesis focuses on the issue of global food security and the rising concern that... View Article
Landscapes of Activism: A Piece of Urban Dialogue
June 3, 2021 4:06 pm Comments Off on Landscapes of Activism: A Piece of Urban DialogueThere is a natural imbalance developed by the centrality of the Glaswegian institutions, in comparison... View Article
Meeting with Govan Graving Docks Halfway
June 3, 2021 4:05 pm Comments Off on Meeting with Govan Graving Docks HalfwayOur Thesis explores ways in which people can meet with Govan Graving Docks, through direct... View Article
The Ruin and the Garden
June 3, 2021 3:31 pm Comments Off on The Ruin and the GardenThis thesis utilises uses repurposing of existing urban fabric as an ethical approach to architectural... View Article
Healing the Wound
June 3, 2021 3:12 pm Comments Off on Healing the WoundThe influence of modernist town planning in Glasgow and the creation of the M8 motorway... View Article
“IT WISNAE US” : Rewriting Glasgow’s Historical Narrative
June 3, 2021 3:06 pm Comments Off on “IT WISNAE US” : Rewriting Glasgow’s Historical NarrativeMonuments and placenames across Glasgow’s urban fabric give an insight into the cultural hegemony of... View Article
Burn to the Light
June 3, 2021 2:53 pm Comments Off on Burn to the LightThis thesis centres around the idea of rediscovering what is lost.A thriving birthplace of a... View Article
The Weird New Clyde
June 3, 2021 2:50 pm Comments Off on The Weird New ClydeMany Post-industrial cities have taken it upon themselves to revive their once key industrial rivers.... View Article
Weaving the Context
June 3, 2021 2:44 pm Comments Off on Weaving the ContextThe most sustainable building is the one that already exists. However, all buildings are designed... View Article
Islands in the City
June 3, 2021 2:42 pm Comments Off on Islands in the CityFragmented pockets of vacant land litter the city. These weaken the city structure, creating undesirable... View Article
Nurturing Creativity through the Structuring, Layering and Planning of our Cities
June 3, 2021 2:39 pm Comments Off on Nurturing Creativity through the Structuring, Layering and Planning of our CitiesMy thesis investigation looks at how places in our cities can encourage, value and nurture... View Article
Weaving Routes Together to Reconnect Glasgow
June 3, 2021 2:28 pm Comments Off on Weaving Routes Together to Reconnect GlasgowGlasgow is a city with spatial experiences that are unique. Many of the densely populated... View Article
Theatre Hybrid: Reconnect the Fragmented
June 3, 2021 2:17 pm Comments Off on Theatre Hybrid: Reconnect the FragmentedOver the years, Glasgow witnesses all kinds of transformation from an industrial centre to culture... View Article
Reverse, Re-Balance, Re-Connect: The Ethical Grid
June 3, 2021 2:15 pm Comments Off on Reverse, Re-Balance, Re-Connect: The Ethical GridThinking about the future of our cities, can we affirm that they are ready for... View Article
A Living Monument: The Re-Use Centre
June 3, 2021 2:07 pm Comments Off on A Living Monument: The Re-Use CentreGovan was once a neighbourhood formerly at heart of Glasgow’s ship-building industry. However, there is... View Article
MC² – The Maryhill Connection Centre
June 3, 2021 2:06 pm Comments Off on MC² – The Maryhill Connection CentreIn order for Glasgow to create a fairer, low carbon future it needs to invest... View Article
The Tectonic Poetics of Empathy
June 3, 2021 11:12 am Comments Off on The Tectonic Poetics of EmpathyToday’s current monocultural climate pushed forward by the post-industrialist modernist agenda is actively un-weaving the... View Article
Imagine a City
June 3, 2021 10:41 am Comments Off on Imagine a CityPublic spaces have played a major role in the development of democracy, serving as places... View Article
Regenerating the South-Side of Glasgow
June 3, 2021 10:39 am Comments Off on Regenerating the South-Side of GlasgowThe context of his thesis is about the idea that the problem of dereliction and... View Article
The Re-Imagine Glasgow City Sketch
November 13, 2020 12:19 pm Comments Off on The Re-Imagine Glasgow City SketchThe Postgraduate event brief for ‘Re-Imagine Glasgow’ set only one task – “We want to... View Article
Stage 5 The Ethical City
November 13, 2020 12:12 pm Comments Off on Stage 5 The Ethical CityThe Ethical City? Glasgow, Gaelic Glaschu, city, west-central Scotland, is situated along both banks of... View Article
Streets of Merchant City
November 13, 2020 1:04 am Comments Off on Streets of Merchant CityMerchant city is the richest district in Glasgow in terms of history and culture. In... View Article
Cabins on the Clyde
November 13, 2020 12:42 am Comments Off on Cabins on the ClydeGroup 32 : Maisie Tudge, Matthew Smith, Calum Weir, Magdalena Wloczka, Sin-Ting Wong, Ailish Whooley
Plan Bee
November 13, 2020 12:39 am Comments Off on Plan BeeGroup 31 : Tamsin Le Roux, William Macdonald, Luiza Queiroz Silva, Imraan J. Smith, Ilia Voulgari and... View Article
Energy Re-Imagined
November 13, 2020 12:37 am Comments Off on Energy Re-ImaginedGroup 30 : Margaux Philips, Lotta Pulkkinen, Callum Smith, Jorge Velasco Velasco, Floris van Manen, Nikitas... View Article
Ecological Evolution
November 13, 2020 12:34 am Comments Off on Ecological EvolutionGrou 29 : Sarah Owens, Joe Sampey, Norbu Verhagen, Laura Stevenson, Karolina Pluta
Clyde Crane Market
November 13, 2020 12:31 am Comments Off on Clyde Crane MarketGroup 28 : Alexander Vile, Xanthe Wilkins, Tarn-Afeni Zaidi, Wai Hei Leung, Alexander Mallalieu, Donald... View Article
Tunnel Vision
November 13, 2020 12:25 am Comments Off on Tunnel VisionGroup 27 : Kyle Mac Connell, Katy McGregor, Elaine Yu, Serene Nemer, Jessica Xie, Sylvia... View Article
Queen’s Park
November 12, 2020 11:59 pm Comments Off on Queen’s ParkOne of Glasgow’s cherished historic green spaces is the South Side’s Queen’s Park. The park... View Article
The Dear Green Place
November 12, 2020 11:24 pm Comments Off on The Dear Green PlaceThe original name of Glasgow in Gaelic has proven in time to reflect an remarkable... View Article
Life of the Streets
November 12, 2020 10:44 pm Comments Off on Life of the StreetsIn this short film, I have looked into the life of the streets in the... View Article
The Urban Burn
November 12, 2020 10:25 pm Comments Off on The Urban BurnGroup 09 : Ewan Hepburn, Douglas Baldwin, Kryslynn D’sa, Martin Zizka, Charles Dunn, Marilena Kynigou
Beaches Make Glasgow
November 12, 2020 10:18 pm Comments Off on Beaches Make GlasgowGroup 08 : Yik Man Chuen, Martha Duncan, Rebecca Hodalova, Gaelen Britton, Emily Dan, Paula Gómez... View Article
Glasgow Canals
November 12, 2020 10:17 pm Comments Off on Glasgow CanalsGroup 07 : John Cummins, Timothy Khoo, Pavandip Sian, Youngeun Cho, Huyen Anh Do, Euan... View Article
River Living
November 12, 2020 10:04 pm Comments Off on River LivingGroup 06 : Chiara Chisai, Fredrik Frendin, Hannah Keane, Sebastian A Jonsson, Erica Brunno, Megan... View Article
Vision of Green
November 12, 2020 10:01 pm Comments Off on Vision of GreenGroup 05 : Mutsa Chinembiri, Jonathan Hill, William White-Howe, Elias Wahlstrom, Angeliki Sachiki, Sam Smith
Arterial Blue
November 12, 2020 9:54 pm Comments Off on Arterial BlueGroup 04 : Jordan Barrett, Siyana Borisova, Anjolaoluwa Soji-Oyawoy, Polina Efthymiadou, Robyn Gibson, Ebba Holst
Pods
November 12, 2020 9:38 pm Comments Off on PodsGroup 01 : Alesia Berahavaya, Pui Yee Wang, Lily Sinclair, Kirve Shubham, Alexandros Tzamperi
The Fabric of Glasgow
November 12, 2020 7:55 pm Comments Off on The Fabric of GlasgowPattern, fabric, stitch, tie – textiles terminologies have become synonymous with the urban realm. How... View Article
What Makes a Building Glaswegian?
November 11, 2020 2:10 am Comments Off on What Makes a Building Glaswegian?“Each great civilization arrived at its apogee when subject to geographical and material conditions, its... View Article
The Phases of Glasgow’s Regeneration
November 11, 2020 2:06 am Comments Off on The Phases of Glasgow’s RegenerationGlasgow has experienced many changes over it’s recent urban history, some of which have left visual scars... View Article
A City Touched By Rain
November 11, 2020 2:02 am Comments Off on A City Touched By RainThe effect rain has on the urban fabric of Glasgow is unmistakable. I decided on... View Article
Food as an Expression of African-Caribbean Cultural Identity in Glasgow
November 11, 2020 1:57 am Comments Off on Food as an Expression of African-Caribbean Cultural Identity in GlasgowIn investigating ways in which people express their cultural identity, nothing is as undeniable as... View Article
Queer Occupation in Glasgow
November 11, 2020 1:49 am Comments Off on Queer Occupation in GlasgowDiscrete, Legal, Celebrated This short study looks at the queer history within the city of... View Article
Community No(de) More
November 11, 2020 1:45 am Comments Off on Community No(de) MoreIn the 1960s and 70s Glasgow went through a radical transformation through the City Comprehensive... View Article
Fragments of Sacred Space
November 11, 2020 1:39 am Comments Off on Fragments of Sacred SpaceGlasgow as a city did not begin to develop until 6th Century with the arrival of St. Mungo who... View Article
Neglected People and Places
November 11, 2020 1:10 am Comments Off on Neglected People and PlacesIs there a correlation between an abundance of man-made edges and an abundance of derelict... View Article
Significant Examples of Civil Unrest in Glasgow’s History
November 10, 2020 5:00 pm Comments Off on Significant Examples of Civil Unrest in Glasgow’s HistoryFirst World War has caused housing shortage all over Europe; in February 1915 landlords in... View Article
The Displaced and Deprivation
November 9, 2020 7:31 pm Comments Off on The Displaced and DeprivationFocusing on integration, the map highlights the areas which are the most deprived 10% in... View Article
Environmental Impact and Action
November 9, 2020 7:28 pm Comments Off on Environmental Impact and ActionScotland was one of the first countries in the world to acknowledge the global climate... View Article
Future Skyline
November 9, 2020 7:20 pm Comments Off on Future SkylineBy 2050 the population in Glasgow City Centre is expected to double, resulting in a... View Article
The Study of the Relationship Between Motorway and Railway Infrastructure and Deprivation in Glasgow
November 9, 2020 7:16 pm Comments Off on The Study of the Relationship Between Motorway and Railway Infrastructure and Deprivation in GlasgowIn the City Groups project I am studying the relationship between heavy infrastructure and deprivation in Glasgow City... View Article
Historical and Remaining Traces of Gaelic Culture Across Glasgow
November 9, 2020 7:05 pm Comments Off on Historical and Remaining Traces of Gaelic Culture Across GlasgowThis map aims to display the layering of historical routes, remains and current social traces of Gaelic and... View Article
The Riddle of the Clyde
November 9, 2020 6:57 pm Comments Off on The Riddle of the ClydeThe Clyde has always had a key role in shaping Glasgow, as the city’s history can be read through the changes... View Article
Deep Fried Mars Bars
November 9, 2020 6:49 pm Comments Off on Deep Fried Mars BarsGlasgow has the lowest life expectancy of any area across Scotland, something perhaps more interesting... View Article
Planned Shrinkage and Local Community
November 9, 2020 6:41 pm Comments Off on Planned Shrinkage and Local CommunityAfter the Second World War, Glasgow was experiencing mass overcrowding. From the 1940s, the government... View Article
Rethinking Material
November 9, 2020 6:33 pm Comments Off on Rethinking Material‘‘Construction Declares a Climate and Biodiversity emergency: For everyone working in construction and the built... View Article
The Evolution of Urban Greenery
November 9, 2020 6:27 pm Comments Off on The Evolution of Urban GreeneryThe distribution of green space within the urban realm has always been interlinked with the... View Article
Past Forward
November 9, 2020 6:16 pm Comments Off on Past ForwardExcess mortality appears in Glasgow, known as the ‘Glasgow effect’, refers to the lowlife expectancy... View Article
Rediscovering the Clyde | How can successful river management foster future developments and reconnect a city?
November 9, 2020 6:07 pm Comments Off on Rediscovering the Clyde | How can successful river management foster future developments and reconnect a city?Glasgow struggles with a disconnect between the River Clyde and the city. Even though Glasgow was... View Article
A Fence to Gossip Over
November 5, 2020 3:15 pm Comments Off on A Fence to Gossip OverThe few isolated towers left standing are the remnants of Glasgow City Council’s mass housing... View Article
Divergent Cuisines
November 4, 2020 1:28 pm Comments Off on Divergent CuisinesGovanhill is a neighbourhood in the south of Glasgow which is the most ethnically diverse... View Article