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- Sep 1979-May 1980 (Creation)
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Architectural drawing on tracing paper related to the housing design/project 2 showing the site plan in scale 1:1250, representing its main blocks with the north sign. The new blocks for the housing design project have been coded with numbers and given titles, as below:
- 1: students' hostel;
- 2: corner pub;
- 3: nursery school;
- 4: tenement with G-floor shops;
- 5: public building/shops;
- 6: flats;
- 7: new housing;
- 8: terraced housing;
- 9: public building/shops.
The architect used shading to give an idea of the height of each new building within the site plan.
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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: 590 x 840 mm
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Catalogued by Nada Al-Naemyi, work placement, March 2023.
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