Degree Show 2025

The Glasgow Building Preservation Trust (GBPT), is a charitable organisation dedicated to saving and re-purposing Glasgow’s historic buildings. In accordance with its focus on transforming at-risk buildings into vibrant spaces for community use, the institution should take its role of educating people about Glasgow’s built history, exhibiting the city’s abundant architectural heritage, and engaging the community. My approach to the refurbishment is to retain and repair the historic facade of the street facing parts of the existing building and re-construct the interior space to respond to the building’s history and to enhance users’ experience. The middle part of the existing building is demolished to create an open space for public use and to improve light condition. This allows the scaffolding to be introduced as an intervention to support community activities. The scaffolding symbolises contrast, between heavy and light, old and new, permanent and temporary. It not only physically connect the separate blocks but can be considered as a metaphor that the institution unites people and the architectural heritage in the Glasgow city centre.