We were delighted to be invited to talk about our Albert Drive renovation project at the Glasgow Institute of Architects: Conservation and Renovation series of talks.
The project is located on the ground floor of a converted sandstone villa within the Pollokshields’ Conservation Area, this project created a light, open plan kitchen forming a new central hub of a family home more images here
Work starts on our rural new build house and studio in the Carron Valley, Stirling. The project explores a number of strands including, the blurring of living and working spaces, fabric first appproach and designing for dementia.
The project is due to be complete early summer 2021.
Our Newhouse of Auchengree project features in this month’s House Beautiful Magazine. It’s lovely to see this project in print again.
Article by Caroline Ednie and photographs by David Barbour
Our mobile micro home on the Isle of Skye has been shortlisted for a Scottish Design Award for Best Residential Building. We are delighted for our client Ali and the rest of the team that were involved in the project.
You can read more about the project here
Our Multi Generational Farmhouse has started on site this month. Located in Angus, this new farmhouse has been designed to accommodate three generations of the same family. The form and design of the house references the forms and characteristics of traditional farm buildings in this specific area of Angus.
The building is clad in zinc and larch cladding. The project employs a fabric first approach, with both buildings heated via a ground source heat pump.
We’re looking forward to seeing this project take shape over the next few months.
Homes and Interiors Scotland Magazine
Project: Albert Drive, Polloksheilds, Glasgow
Article by Caroline Ednie
Photographs: David Barbour
Our Mobile Micro Home on the Isle of Skye features in this month’s Grand Designs Magazine (April edition).’A Small Wonder: This Tiny Home was the eco-friendly solution to building on difficult terrain and to a tight budget’
You can read more here
Grand Designs Magazine
Project: Altarf: Mobile Micro Home
Article by Caroline Ednie
Photographs: David Barbour
We were delighted to be invited to talk to the Architecture students at the GSA about our project that formed part of the Architecture Fringe Festival 2019, which looked at ideas relating to rejuvenating and re purposing Scotland’s abandoned coastal swimming pools and our on going research into Scotland’s historic coastal and tidal pools.
We are looking forward to visiting PIttenween tidal pool with the students in the following few weeks and see their projects develop over the next couple of months.
The Bantaskin Street Project has been shortlisted for RTPI Awards: Glasgow City Council’s Self Build Pilot, is in the running for the Excellence in Planning to Deliver Homes – category at the RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence 2020. Here’s our design for a two bedroom house at Plot 3 Bantaskin Street.
Mobile House: Isle of Skye.
Located on the Isle of Skye, this mobile micro home prototype was developed as a low cost, thermally efficient, mobile house, designed for the rural landscape.
The Client’s initial brief was for a ‘small but not tiny’ permanent house.. However, after discovering that the ground conditions on the site were poor and would not support traditional foundations, a ‘mobile house’ concept was developed.
The house contains three main spaces, which are open to the apex, to provide a feeling of space, light and height. Each is divided by a deep storage wall, containing storage or other functions. The three spaces flow together, creating a greater feeling of space and light throughout the building.
A kitchen and living space with a small stove is located centrally, with a shower room and bedroom located at the gable ends. The internal walls and ceilings are clad in birch faced ply. The floors are finished in a dark grey rubber flooring.
Externally, the building is clad in a mixture of black standing seam zinc and untreated Siberian larch cladding. These materials are commonly found within the rural landscape. Both external and internal materials were considered in terms of longevity, re-use, maintenance and environmental impact.
The house was constructed off site with 15 miles of the site. Once complete, the building was transported across the Skye landscape, to the site and lifted into position.
A traditional dry-stane wall was built along the edge of the site, grounding the new building into the landscape.
In the future the building can be removed from site and travel to a new location, where its narrative will continue.
Photographs: David Barbour
Area: 30m² Completion: Autumn 2019・ Client: Private
We are delighted that our renovation project on Albert Drive was awarded a commendation at the GIA Architecture Awards on Friday night.
The project is located on the ground floor of a converted sandstone villa within the Pollokshields’ Conservation Area, this project created a light, open plan kitchen forming a new central hub of a family home more images here
Congratulations to our Client’s Katy and Nick and the rest of the team involved in the project.
Pollokshields: Villa Renovation
A renovation and extension to a ground floor villa apartment in the Pollokshields Conservation area.
Located in the ground floor of a converted sandstone villa within the Polloksheilds’ Conservation Area, this project created a light, open plan kitchen forming a new central hub of a family home This was achieved by readjusting the focus from the front shared garden to the private rear garden and re-planning the internal circulation through out the ground floor. The new full height zinc dormer creates a modern intervention between the two-storey villa and the former utilitarian building to the rear, bringing in much need light into the kitchen and forming a new connection to the garden.
The low ceiling in the kitchen was removed, opening the space up to the apex, a new roof light was added to bring further light into the rear of the kitchen. Work included insulating the walls, floor and ceiling of the new space and constructing a new acoustic and fire separation wall between the existing house and neighbouring property.
The material palette both internally and externally was kept simple and robust.
Photographs: David Barbour
Area: 50m² Completion: Summer 2018・ Client: Private
Press (Selected):
Home Building and Renovating Magazine
Homes and Interiors Scotland Magazine
Awards
GIA Small Project Award 2019: Highly Commended
We were appointed by the Isle of Kerrera Development Trust to produce a detailed Feasibility study and business plan investigating purchasing and converting the former school on the island to a much needed Community space. The proposals include the renovation of the existing school building, a new auxiliary building to provide office and workshop space and a modern bothy for artist residencies.
We are delighted that The Scottish Fund Fund has awarded full funding for the Community of Kerrera to purchase the school building from Argyll and Bute Council. IKDT have already carried out a number of work stages relating to the renovation and conversion of the building. We look forward to seeing the project completed.
Ann Nisbet Studio were asked to take part in the Architectural Fringe Festival’s Re Types Exhibition and explore adaptive re-purposing of an imagined existing building or structure. The studio’s project explores ideas relating to rejuvenating and re purposing Scotland’s abandoned coastal swimming pools and comments on local democracy, land ownership, social isolation and collective bathing.
Re Types Exhibition takes place at the Exhibition Lighthouse Gallery 7 – 23 June 2019. More info Click Here
Delighted to give the keynote speech alongside Brian McGinlay at the AJ100 lunch in Glasgow. We shared our research and initial ideas from our collaborative Dundashill custom build housing project and also our Bantaskin Street Project.
Over the last year, we have been working with the Isle of Kerrera Development Trust to produce a Feasibility study investigating buying and converting the former school on the island to a much needed Community space. The proposals include the renovation of the school, a new auxiliary building and a modern bothy for artist residencies.
We are delighted that The Scottish Fund Fund has awarded full funding for the Community of Kerrera to purchase the school building from Argyll and Bute Council.
Delighted to be invited to give a guest lecture at the 57°10 Lecture Series at the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and the Built Environment in Aberdeen.
Ann was also interviewed for the 57°10 Pod cast, which you can listen to here
Garden House: Dumfries
Located in the clients existing mature garden, the new house is formed from four brick clad volumes, which create private garden spaces and courtyards in the ‘in between’ spaces.
Our client’s were looking to down size from their existing home, which had an extensive garden. It was proposed to locate a new modern house within the mature garden. The house was to be bright and light, capturesviews of the garden but retained the clients privacy and avoided over looking of the neighbouring property.
The main public rooms are formed around a three sided courtyard, which provides a private and sheltered outdoor garden space, with the bedrooms located in the two storey element at the rear.
Area 175sm Completed: January 2022 Private: Client
Plot 3 Bantaskin Street
Ann Nisbet Studio were appointed by a private client to prepare design proposals for a two bedroom home as part of the Bantaskin Street Self Build Pilot. Glasgow City Council are undertaking a ‘self build’ pilot project adjacent to the Forth and Clyde Canal Locks in Maryhill, Glasgow. The city hope to adopt this approach to various brownfield and vacant sites around the city.
The two storey building references the former metal industrial sheds, which were located along and around this area of the canal. A simple two storey, long and linear form with a pitched roof was developed. The house is clad in black corrugated aluminum sheets on both the walls and roof, which forms a simple silhouette.
A fabric first approach was adopted. Large areas of glazing were designed for passive solar gain. High levels of insulation and triple glazed windows are used in the building fabric. An air source heat pump and waste water heat recovery system have also been incorporated into the design.
Size: 95sqm Client: Private Stage 0 – 4
Awards
Bantaskin Project: Shortlisted for RTPI Planning Award
In 2018, Ann Nisbet Studio were invited by Igloo Regeneration, along with five other Glasgow architecture practices, to design a terrace house for a proposed development in Dundashill, in the north of Glasgow.
The proposal was for a custom build housing solution for the Dundashill area, in partnership with Scottish Canals, Igloo Regeneration and CCG, with off-site production and construction by CCG.
Ann Nisbet Studio are now on site with 35 terrace houses for Igloo Regeneration, with the first houses due for handover in January 2024.
Ann Nisbet Studio were asked to take part in the Architectural Fringe Festival’s Re Types Exhibition and explore adaptive re-purposing of an imagined existing building or structure. The studio’s project explores ideas relating to rejuvenating and re purposing Scotland’s abandoned coastal swimming pools and comments on local democracy, land ownership, social isolation and collective bathing.
Date Completed: May 2019 Client: ArchiFringe
Ann Nisbet Studio were invited by Igloo Regeneration along with five other architecture practices to design a terrace house for a proposed development in Dundashill, in the north of Glasgow.
The proposal was for a custom build housing solution for the Dundashill area, in partnership with Scottish Canals, Igloo Regeneration and CCG, with off-site production and construction by CCG.
Further information can be found here
Newhouse of Auchengree: North Ayrshire
The new house is located within North Ayrshire, an equal distance between Dalry and Beith, within the Garnock Valley. The site is a plateau at the top of a slight incline and raised from the surrounding agricultural fields. This elevated position gives the building wonderful views over the North Ayrshire Landscape, however it has little natural shelter and is very exposed to the elements. Strong South-Westerly winds can make being outdoors on the site quite uncomfortable.In response to the site and conditions, the functions of the house are contained within a cluster of building forms, which draw on the traditional groupings of agricultural farm buildings and steadings in the surrounding North Ayrshire Landscape. A two storey element, a one storey linear element and an outbuilding form a cluster around a three sided courtyard. The buildings draw on the form and proportions of traditional rural North Ayrshire Architecture. As with traditional local buildings and agricultural buildings, the roofs on the proposed house are symmetrical with a traditional pitch on all the main parts of the building.
The roofs and walls of the building are clad in zinc. This material choice provides a contemporary, quality exterior that references the local rural agricultural buildings. The choice of material also draws on North Ayrshire’s tradition of industry and agriculture working harmoniously in the landscape and looks at referencing the steel and iron foundry’s, which were once located in the Garnock Valley.
The proposed building is approached via the existing access, which continues through the building into the internal protected courtyard. The pend creates a pause space between the wider landscape and the intimate internal courtyard. The large barn doors can be closed to provide both privacy and security as well as a small micro climate via an indoor/outdoor space, which extends the seasonal use of the courtyard and provides a sheltered outdoor space even in the most severe weather.
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For the second year, Ann was invited to give a guest lecture about the studio’s work to Postgraduate Architecture students from the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales.
The students also visited our Newhouse of Auchengree project in North Ayrshire. Thank you to our clients for generously inviting us all for a tour.