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Title
Date(s)
- c1977 (Creation)
Level of description
Folder
Extent
10 drawings/plans
Content and Structure
Scope and content
Folder contains:
- NUMBERED DRAWINGS: (IMC/1) plan and elevations, with annotations: 1:50
- (IMC/1) plan and elevations, with sketch roof section: 1:50
- (IMC/1) plan and elevations, with annotations and sketch alterations to original drawings, and with calculations on reverse: 1:50
- (IMC/4) detail section C-C, showing new extension and existing cottage: 1:20
- (IMC/4) detail section C-C, showing new extension and existing cottage, with sketch alterations and calculations on reverse: 1:20
- (IMC/5) wall and roof details: 1:5
- (IMC/5) wall and roof details, with sketch alterations: 1:5
- (IMC/5) wall and roof details, with Colin Porteous' notes
- UNNUMBERED DRAWINGS: existing site plan
- proposed site plan.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
This material has been appraised in line with Glasgow School of Art Archives and Collections standard procedures.
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General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Prof Colin Porteous is an architect and researcher whose interest extends to energy-efficient design moved from practice to in-depth research. In 1981, he became active in the international solar community and then a full-time academic in 1986 after leading a community technical aid centre. He linked problems of fuel poverty to passive solar solutions via EU-funded Easthall Demonstration Project in early 1990s. Prof Porteous initiated the Mackintosh Environmental Architecture Research Unit (MEARU) in 1993. He is the author of THE NEW eco-ARCHITECTURE (2002) and Solar Architecture in Cool Climates (2005), and has contributed a chapter to Sensing a Historic Low-CO2 Future (2011).