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Date(s)
- c1977-1994 (Creation)
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Folder
Extent
7 drawings/plans
Content and Structure
Scope and content
Folder contains:
- UNNUMBERED DRAWINGS CONT'D: unidentified sketch details
- planning application submission [as IMC/1]
- planning application submission (as IMC/4)
- poster titled 'Case Study: A Self-Built 'Green' House in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland' with notes, plan, and photos mounted on copy of drawing IMC/1 [part one of two, likely related to 1994 BRE Conference]
- econd part of poster, with plan, section, and perspectives mounted on copy of drawing IMC/4 [part two of two, likely related to 1994 BRE Conference]
- copy of Benside's 'Sale' notice
- (D282/4) ground floor plan of Old People's Home and Cottage Hospital, Castlebay, Barra by Thomson, Taylor, Craig & Donald Architects, with sketch roof/chimney details on reverse [the latter possibly relating to Benside]: 1:100.
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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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).