North Paisley masterplan: new ‘tenemental’ blocks in white, existing blocks to be retained in dark grey.
Pastiche Propaganda Pockets
Location: Paisley, Renfrewshire, UK
Date: September 2016 to May 2017
For final year thesis, I sought to study an issue that I felt concerned me and that I could provide a real solution. The thesis sought to research Scotland’s suburban housing and address the many problems with this. The project was intended as a ‘propaganda’ – showcasing a new format of suburban housing to incite change and conversation on the topic. A masterplan for an area North of Paisley was devised, with the remaking of ‘proper’ streets and addition of amenities. A pocket of the masterplan was then put in focus to showcase a new form of suburban housing. The result was a diverse, vibrant pocket of ‘suburban’ housing with nature and life at it’s core – a real alternative to the current norm.
Landscape plan: showing a variety of homes, each with gardens and pedestrian access to amenities.
Site sections: a housing form and aesthetic derived from tradition intertwined with contemporary programme.
Approach to site along Back Sneddon Street, Paisley
Arched amenities within new tenement style blocks, look onto the ‘suburban’ housing pockets
Semi-public pedestrian areas within the ‘suburban’ pocket
Detail elevation: a simple and context driven palette of pink concrete and rough cast concrete panels with subtle timber detailing and a Paisley patterned frieze.
Private gardens with porous boundaries, in contrast to highly private and anti-social gardens found in present suburbs.
Open living area with void to large skylight and circular ‘eye’ to the street.
1:200 house type form models