The overall ideas for my housing masterplan follows 2 key ideas of the 15 Minute City model, ‘Streets for people’ and ‘Where everything is close to home’. I have designed a ‘heart of Thornwood’ within the site of Crathie Court with 14 new flats for both families and people with physical disabilities. The idea is for the complex to create a strong facade onto the street connecting to the existing tenements. This allows for a common back court to form between the newly proposed and the existing Crathie Court. The back court will become a safe community area for the residents of the flats and the residents of the surrounding housing to congregate. In keeping with the 15 Minute City philosophy I also propose a set of commercial retail units that can be used for shops, libraries, community events and cafes. This will allow a hub to form with in the back court creating a street specifically for the people of Thornwood.

As the new flats will join the disused end space of the tenements, I propose to connect to them via the tenement attic space. Renovating the space into 2 new flats that can be owned by the housing accusations. During a consultation with Patrick Housing Association they mentioned it is difficult to repair and maintain the tenement roofs as there is controversy as to who owns the attic spaces, due to the diverse range of tenants and landlords. If the housing association where to own these spaces, it would be allowed for easier repairs. This is also a concept that could be replicated through out Glasgow where there are tenements that abruptly end.