Architecture & Design Scotland - A&Ds

Got a leaky roof? We have a free CPD looking at the maintenance and repair of traditional Scottish slate roofs.
Topics Covered will include:
- Properties of Scottish Slate – colour, size (random, thickness), Supplies of Scotch Slate
... - Alternative Slates available
- When to reslate and when to repair
- When to redress and reuse slate introducing minimum new slates
- When to totally strip and reslate
- When reroofing gives you an opportunity to retrofit insulation to roof voids
- Comparisons of Finished Roofs with Different Slates (especially those on terraced/tenement properties where the new slate abuts a roof with Scotch Slate, good and bad examples)
#Fix #slate #roof #CPD #Edinburgh
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Last weekend to submit applications for our four Design Officer vacancies, closing date at midnight Mon 6 May ->
https://www.ads.org.uk/vacancies/
We look forward to seeing your application!
... #Scotland #environment #innovation
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The good kind of hacking... when pupils and staff adapt their school to better suit their needs. The Space Pioneers at Our Lady of the Missions Primary School have been testing interventions around their school in cardboard before commissioning new furniture. The Tests of Change process, that A&DS offer free to all schools in Scotland, ensures that investment in teaching spaces meets the needs of the learner. The process gives pupils a chance to explore how their environment impacts their lives and design interventions to create inspiring learning spaces.
https://www.ads.org.uk/testsofchange/
Our Lady of The Missions Primary School Parent Council, Education Guardian, Scottish Institute for Enterprise, Tes, Education Scotland

Scotland is changing and with these changes come both opportunities and challenges. We are living longer and although this is undoubtedly positive, it also challenges us to think about how we ensure that we live not only longer, but that we live well.
With social #isolation and #loneliness being identified as major public health issues, especially for older people, we need to seriously reflect on how we can adapt and improve our town centres to help combat those challenges.
This report sets out the work that we have been coordinating, together with Scotland's Towns, to respond and support The Scottish Government’s work around Town Centre Living.

Fancy going back to school and learning a new skill? Join Agile City in Glasgow on Feb 16th for Saturday School. This day of creative workshops will include a 'Glasgow Subway Derive' tour led by the architecture studio Dress for the Weather. Other workshops come from Glasgow Tool Library, Risotto and Civic House Kitchen.

The Architecture Fringe has launched its call for participants for its 2019 open programme. This year explores architecture and its social impact under the framework of IRL [In Real Life]. This provocation is an invitation to explore the extraordinary here and now, the messy everyday and conflicting daily realities. Want to contribute to the programme? You have until 8th April to apply. More info >> http://architecturefringe.com/

The Best Use of Timber 2018 Awards exhibition is now open at The Lighthouse in Glasgow. The winning project is Bath Street Collective Housing in Portobello, Edinburgh, designed by John Kinsley Architects.
Bath Street Collective is a group of 4 families who purchased the site to build a small tenement block containing a bespoke flat for each family. The brief asked for Passivhaus standards and an all-electric strategy that would allow the building to run free from fossil fuel...s. The Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) frame was very efficient to construct, taking just 2 weeks. The CLT is exposed internally; research from the University of Tampere, Finland has shown that internal timber finishes can reduce the blood pressure and pulse of occupants when compared to plaster finishes. Read more about the community-led housing here>> https://www.ads.org.uk/timber_awards18_ba thstreet/ …
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The Best Use of Timber Award 2018 exhibition is now on at The Lighthouse in Glasgow. Lochside House by HaysomeWardMiller Architects is shortlisted. It uses larch cladding and prefabricated SIP panels. As it is built on a remote site, offsite construction and minimal site waste were very beneficial. The house is designed to be completely off-grid

The Best Use of Timber Awards 2018 exhibition is now on at The Lighthouse in Glasgow. One of the shortlised projects is the Hawkhead Centre, a support centre for the war blinded. The Page\Park design uses Scottish Larch and Birch Plywood, read more here >>> https://www.ads.org.uk/timber_awards18_ha wkheadcentre/ …

The Best Use of Timber Awards 2018 exhibition opens this week at The Lighthouse in Glasgow. The pictured Falls of Shin Visitor Centre by CH Architecture is a shortlisted project. The pre-fab structure is a hybrid of timber frame, CLT and Glulam. Read more about it here https://www.ads.org.uk/timber_awards18_fa llsofshin/

This week the Best Use of Timber Awards 2018 exhibition launches at The Lighthouse in Glasgow. The Black Shed house in Skye by Mary Arnold-Forster Architects is shortlisted project. The design uses the ethos of the traditional 'Blackhouse' model of the Highlands. Douglas Fir is used for the walls, ceiling, stairs, doors and kitchen.

Next Tuesday, Sarah Castle from IF_DO (named one of the world's top 20 emerging practices by Wallpaper* magazine) will be giving the Andy MacMillan Memorial Lecture at the Lighthouse in Glasgow. Tickets this way > http://studentawards2018.eventbrite.co.uk

Join us on July 3rd for the Andy MacMillan Memorial Lecture given by Sarah Castle, director at IF_DO. Hosted at The Lighthouse in Glasgow. Tickets free, book via https://studentawards2018.eventbrite.co.u k

Test Unit events programme TICKETS ON SALE! Join Agile City who'll be hosting: Architecture Foundation, dpr-barcelona, Akiko Kobayashi, RISOTTO, Glasgow Tool Library, A Feral Studio, Assemble, BAXENDALE and STEALTH.unlimited. Full programme available at http://agile-city.com/test-unit

We have a new blog piece up on our website about the Test Unit summer-school, run by Agile City. Units this year are led by Assemble, A Feral Studio, BAXENDALE and STEALTH.unlimited. If you're interested in joining them, make sure you apply by May 21st! ads.org.uk/testunit/

Opportunity: Are you a student at an architecture school in Scotland? We are delighted to bring you - in partnership with the Association of Scottish Schools of Architecture – the first Scotland + Venice Fellowships Programme.
The programme offers steward-research roles, based in Venice during the 2018 Biennale Architettura. This provides an exciting opportunity for research and learning.
Deadline for applications 14 March.
... MASS GSA, Eusas Esala, Adas Dundee, 57'10 Lecture Series, Architecture at 131
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In 2009 we published A Vision of Health, within it is this quote by Harry Burns, Chief Medical Officer for Scotland at the time who spoke of:
"An estate designed with “a level of care and thought that conveys respect”; buildings that grow from the local history and landscape, that are developed in partnership with the local community. A work of joint learning and joint responsibility that is particular to that community and that place; “not off the shelf shoe boxes”.
Downloa...d A Vision of Health with this link: http://www.ads.org.uk/…/u…/4164_ADS_- _A_Vision_of_Health.pdf
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