Fraser McQuade

Fraser McQuade

Architecture 3rd Year

mcquadef@yahoo.com

MUSEUM OF DUNDEE LIFE

Inspiration is drawn from the period of the industrial revolution; a time of significant importance during Dundee's history.

The production and distribution of jute within the old city provided metaphorical connections between the location of mill and factory buildings in land, and the presently filled in harbor which falls across the given site. These connections, projected as straight lines, gave an initial concept from which a masterplan of Dundee's waterfront was developed.

In the form of the museum itself; regimented and frank structural solutions create volumes (interior and exterior) whose atmospheres are intensified by the stark, honest materiality (largely concrete, exposed steel and wired glass) which emulates that used in historical industrial architecture.

The interior gallery spaces are individualized by the application of texture to their raw concrete walls, each texture speaking of the subject of its exhibition.

Francis Young

Francis Young

BArch (Hons)

Wilhelms Wharf, Berlin

52.31.21N 13.23.13E

Harvesting aquaculture from the fertile waters of Brandenburg and wider continental region, Berlin is at the heart of a rich network of waterways that have a vast untapped potential. Responsive to the harvesting of its waters, the needs of Berliners can be fed sustainably by an unlimited supply of fresh, healthy food. Harvested farm stock is stored in tanks in a state of hibernation and transported by barge from the farms to a central fish market at Wilhelms Wharf. The stock is then euthanised humanely using anesthetic and brought to market as fresh as possible.

In the built environment of Berlin, we find restraint in a framework of legislative limits; within, we predict and nurture the growth of a city. The limits of growth are scarcity and need; scarcity is dissolved through diversity, need is eliminated through sustainability. This project is an exercise in nourishing a city as Wilhelms Wharf aims to connect with a Berlin which matures with a sense of restraint.

Berlin is a hard city of statistics, facts and legislations; Berlin is a soft city of experience, myth and aspirations.

Both are ideals; both are constantly growing.

The limits of growth are imagination and fear.

Charles Young

I was asked to design a fish market which would be located on the seafront at Newhaven. The site is very long and thin and so dictated the shape of the building. The structure is based on that of a boat which has been turned upside-down. The main structure will be made of steel with timber between the steel ribs. The cladding will also be in timber with some areas glazed letting light flood the space below.

charles.young@eca.ac.uk