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‘Impluvia’ – Fischerinsel, Mitte, Berlin © Holly Gardner
The A&DS and RIAS Scottish Student Awards for Architecture 2015
The RIAS Rowand Anderson Silver Medal for Best 5th Year Student
Winner
The Continuing Story of Kumbharwada
Neal Whitaker
University of Strathclyde
This is a humanitarian thesis and a manifesto for local empowerment. While the developed architectural forms are well beyond mere functional requirements, this is an enlightened and sophisticated expression of a big ambition. The proposition is that social justice be delivered through an accomplished, architectural approachJudges’ Comments
A&DS Award for Best 3rd Year Student
Winner
Civic Framing + Flows
Jordan McCrae
Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
A thoroughly appropriate project for this context, underpinned by a strong strategic approach. Crisp, visually alluring drawings articulate the idea and its development superbly well. This is an extremely accomplished and well resolved scheme.Judges’ Comments
A&DS Urban Design Award
Winner
Via Camba: Public Infrastructure for social change
Neal Hemingway, Vincent Hon
University of Strathclyde
There is clarity and confidence in the depiction of this strategy for urban transport nodes. This scheme, for a densely inhabited barrio within a South American city, has a social conscience, encourages patronage of public transport, is demonstrative of economic good sense and endeavours to reinforce social cohesion.Judges’ Comments
A&DS Sustainable Design Award
Winner
The Churchill Engine
Robert Hebblethwaite
Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
The project fuses a robust, well-researched, technical argument with a focus on local economic benefit. Different scenarios are tested towards a solution which is very much focussed on community in its emphasis. Well-drawn and clearly expressed, the technical arguments are well made.Judges’ Comments