Art academy

Edinburgh 2004

 

The art school is a landscape of circulation, in which the classrooms are integrate within this dynamic field of movement, embedded within the public ramped sequential pattern.

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The public six ramps slope half floor up and half floor down in spiral movement leading to the centre, creating a pockets in-between leading to a hidden floor of private classrooms.

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The building reacts to its context, it borrows its skin from the market its located within (like a cameleon). Starts with six art shops (for the six art departments),- where students can sell their art and interact with the community- those shops gradually change in nature as you move further into the public corridors leading into the heart of the academy.