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The Arctic Council © Melissa Lawson
The A&DS and RIAS Scottish Student Awards for Architecture 2013
The RIAS Rowand Anderson Silver Medal for Best 5th Year Student
Winner
The Arctic Council
Melissa Lawson
Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
An elemental approach to a landscape of harsh geology, this scheme considers geopolitical sustainability and proposes a response in a beautifully drawn proposal which is abrupt, angular, cold, hard and thoroughly appropriate.Judges’ Comments
A&DS Award for Best 3rd Year Student
Winner
Culzean Hydropath / Saltcoats Salt Centre
Emmeline Quigley
Mackintosh School of Architecture
This scheme communicates engagement with place and restraint in its architectural approach. While the urban proposal is diagrammatic, it describes carefully considered and appropriate ‘big moves’ and an understanding of the need to reconnect the community to its seafront.Judges’ Comments
A&DS Urban Design Award
Winner
Blue Lunacy: Salt Lines and the Olbian Lamprey
Ryan Hodge, Douglas Wright
Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Sound economic reasoning combines with well-researched and explained, while undoubtedly ambitious, solutions. Economic, social and morphological links are well explored and though some aspects of the rationalisation are overly abstruse, the proposals are beautifully expressed.”Judges’ Comments
Winner
Lanes, Courts and Community
Louise Gydell, Mari Nysveen Hullum, Angela McIntyre, Nicola McLachlan, Sucy Murniayi, Liam Potts, Martin Sunjic Bertoni
University of Strathclyde
Street frontages, relationships of structures within the block and the depths of the plan are all carefully considered in this judicious revisiting of the Merchant City’s morphology. The design exemplifies the crucial importance of putting the emphasis on people.Judges’ Comments
A&DS Sustainable Design Award
Winner
Weather, Water and Place
Peter Harford-Cross
University of Strathclyde
This is design beyond the building. Small interventions are proposed to deliver substantial change. The proposal addresses issues of social disconnection, generating a more walkable city, enhancing the mobility of residents. This approach is about many strands of the sustainability agenda from the socioeconomic down to energy and the details of the built environment, all brought together with consummate care.Judges’ Comments
The RIAS Andy MacMillan Drawing Award
Winner
Salthouse / Hydropath
Bruce Doran
Mackintosh School of Architecture
There is a seductive, other worldly, quality to this powerfully communicative set of drawings. The combination of terse but sufficient narration and simple diagrams sets the scene for a crescendo of visual impressions, like something out of a James Cameron movie - superbly persuasive!Judges’ Comments