Project_ThePipeFactoryExtension
type_exhibitionSpace
site_Glasgow, Scotland
period_12weeks
year_2016
tutors Nick Walker
Marc Kilkenny
The site is located in central Glasgow and it is an old Pipe Factory, which is currently used as studio space for local artists. The project brief is for an extension of 250sqm to the Pipe Factory, which would extend the ground floor gallery with additional exhibition space, cafe and toilet facilities. The project was developed by multidisciplinary team consisting of myself (architecture student), two fourth-year structural engineers (Ian Goffin and Ryan Gray) and a quantity surveyor (Craig McEwan) aiming to get out the knowledge we all gained through our studies and with a minimum help from the tutors to integrate the architectural design with structural practicality , so it could be presented to our client (The Pipe Factory community) providing realistic cost.
We had the choice of two possible sites for the extension - A or B, both of them having specific characteristics in terms of sunlight, meeting point with existing building, and connection with street and surroundings.
SITE A
- entrance from Moncur Street - market street
- ground floor on street level
- remote from Bain St car noise
- interesting openings on Pipe Factory
SITE B
- street elevation
- in between twin facade buildings
- located on main busy street
- church/open public area across the street
DEVELOPMENT FOR SITE A
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
SECTION A-A
USE OF EXTENSION
VIEW FROM BAIN STREET
SECTION B-B
STRUCTURAL LAYOUT
1. Pour ground floor slab (works as foundation)
2. Cast ground floor columns
3. Build up structural masonries and cast concrete walls
2. Cast roof slabs
2. Cast cantilever
1. Set framework for beams
VIEWS FROM FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION
DOUBLE HEIGHT EXHIBITION SPACE
COST ANALYSIS
DEVELOPMENT FOR SITE B
As a further development to the project, I have decided to expand my design proposal and introduce a public garden on Site B. Bain Street is the active one during the weekdays and a public space in between the former Pipe Factory would be a good way to get passengers engaged with the artwork the Pipe Factory community does inside the building.
Furthermore, through the public garden, the design gets a third entrance, which leads directly to the cafe and makes the design proposal even more flexible. With a separate entrance, the cafe may operate as a self-sufficient unit, which would not necessarily have to be managed by the Pipe Factory art community.
reflecting the angles from Moncur St elevation on the new corridor display facing the public garden
spatial connection between the Pipe Factory public
garden and the church’s yard cross the road
visual connection between public garden and exhibition courtyard divided by the inner corridor
light tube between cafe and gallery / inner courtyard and public garden
CORRIDOR AND PUBLIC GARDEN
CAFE AND INNER COURTYARD
