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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