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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:
- UNNUMBERED DRAWINGS CONT'D: 'House at 1 Benside' dimensions, in plan
- part plans
- ection of existing cottage and extension, with details, sketch details, and calculations
- part plans and sections showing blockwork at open-fire end and Rayburn end
- west-end gable elevation, and details of B-frame and link-frame: 1:50
- elevation of A-frame and F-frame
- window cill flashing details: fs
- fireplace details in plan and section: 1:10
- holding-down bolt details in plan and elevation
- unidentified sketch details.
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).