public
commerical
residential
masterplan
other
  client competition
  location collieston> scotland> uk
  consultants -
  value £1.6 milliion
  description community centre in collieston - The building’s layout is influenced by the traditional castle plan where the main chamber is cradled in the centre of the plan surrounded by smaller servant spaces. In this case the hall, a double height space, is surrounded by support spaces such as the café
meeting room and winter garden, insulating the hall from the outer world. By wrapping 2 storeys of accommodation around the hall the building is given an appropriate scale on all four sides and generates facades which are animated and varied.Key spaces open onto a winter garden which acts as an environmental buffer providing protection from the wind and acting as a solar harvester in the winter months. The general day to day patterns of use can be easily and quickly accommodated through simple sliding folding screens. Pocketed doors and blinds allow the hall to change easily from a cinema to a sports hall to banquet space.

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