Projects

START-UP WORKSPACES, INVERCLYDE

Baker Street Food Innovation Hub

We have been commissioned by Riverside Inverclyde to design a series of inter-connected work spaces for the production of food to Salsa accreditation standards by upstart businesses from the local Inverclyde area. The aim is to provide a workplace environment that promotes shared learning through shared experience aiding in business development through the critical early years.

The project will provide 6 stand-alone work spaces with shared office, administration, hygiene and storage facilities with an overall internal footprint of 430m2. The individual workspaces vary in size up to a maximum of 60m2 providing adequate space for starter businesses moving out of the domestic kitchen for the first time.

The design aims to take advantage of the prominent site at the top of Bakers Brae and demonstrate the innovation with use of a double pitch form and modern materials common in the commercial kitchen environment.

Projects

NATIONAL SHOOTING CENTRE, FALKIRK

New multi discipline shotgun layouts for Skeet, Trap and Down-the-Line at the National Shooting Centre, Falkirk.

The first phase of refurbishment included the design of these steel and timber shelters which were required to provide cover over the three discipline shooting points with uninterrupted clearance to ensure compliance for both local and international shooting competitions.

Using the ISSF guidance and shooting typology as a lead, the shelters sit on an exposed former quarry site and are designed to be fully functional, robust and distinguishable to ensure the client’s brand is promoted.

Shooting towers, multi-trap firing shelters and significant retaining walls also form part of the project.

Projects

DENTAL PRACTICE, MERCHANT CITY, GLASGOW

Ferguson & Glover (Dental Surgeons)

The site is within the ground floor of the ‘B’ listed former Sheriff Courthouse in a conservation area of the Merchant City and had been occupied previously by a lighting showroom. The brief included a generous reception / waiting area, surgery rooms, an interview room, x-ray room, a local decontamination unit, toilet, staff kitchen, plant room and storage facilities.

With an existing unconventional trapezoidal site footprint and irregular glazing-wall-structural column rhythm, the required relationship between various parts of the brief resulted in a subtly twisted arrangement of forms within the new plan layout: To the building user however the interior appears to merge as a cohesive and fluid series of spaces.

Dynamic ceiling and ramp forms contain lighting and a busy services system but also differentiate between intimate and more open spaces, ie between the circulation and surgery rooms or between the reception and waiting area. The ceiling and ramp geometry also relates to a new diagonal circulation axis through the site against an existing public diagonal axis, which cuts through the whole urban block. The integration of what is a very clean, sharp and new function into the historic fabric of the Courthouse was an exciting challenge and where possible we allowed the old and the new to be viewed honestly side by side.

The refurbishment won the 2017 Scottish Dental Awards ‘Style’ category which aims to showcase beautiful surroundings that help patients and staff enjoy their time at the practice. The judges were looking for stunning practices that are the very epitome of style and wow patients and amaze passers by with its design and architecture.