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- Sep 1978-May 1979 (Creation)
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A free hand architectural drawing on tracing paper using Rotring black ink pen and coloured markers illustrating the initial strategy for the design of the school, showing a site plan in scale 1:500. The strategy addresses the most problematic issues and their suggested solutions:
- according to noise issue: soft area to be allocated towards the site's inner area, "noisy areas positioned along streets",
- new public car park planted with shrubs and trees along street edge,
- caretaker's house acting as control and closing off vista from lane,
- new pedestrian route and new vehicle access (buses, cars, ambulances, and service vehicles).
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Christopher Platt studied at the Mackintosh School of Architecture at The Glasgow School of Art between 1974-1981. He is co-Founder of Studio KAP architects and Chair of Architecture at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, where he was previously Head of School. His first 20 years of professional practice was spent in Glasgow, London, Oxford, Ethiopia and Berlin and was followed by 20 years combining academia with independent, reflective practice in Studio KAP and practice-based research both in Global North and Global South contexts.
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Dimensions: 836 x 583 mm
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This item is tagged "Harmful material" due to the use of the term "mentally handicapped" which is ableist.
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Catalogued by Nada Al-Naemyi, work placement, March 2023.
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