The UDSU’s MSc flag-course in Urban Design for year 5 students in architecture and other built-environment disciplines.
This masterplan focused on the Western Flank of the M8 Motorway, namely the Charing Cross and Anderston areas. While many of the other masterplans produced this year focused on large- scale interventions on the motorway, Maria and Sean focused and better integrating the motorway into the existing Urban Fabric and …
The final examination works for Jacob Dibble (MSc) and Alessandra Feliciotti (Exchange). This masterplan focused on the regeneration of the larger Anderston area in Glasgow, revolving around the premise of tunnelling the M8 motorway into an underground bored tunnel combined with a new North / South rail line and converting …
Adopting the strategy of depressing the motorway along its current course, this group focused on the opportunities in Glasgow to reconnect isolated areas and bring City usage towards the motorway rather than away from it. The important moves in this program include bridges across the River Clyde, street extensions over …
Sighthill is interesting because it was never included in the city structure or policies as it was isolated and used as a railway and chemical industry facility. Therefore the land was underused since the railway and heavy industry disappeared and the large isolating infrastructures of railway and M8 motorway appeared. …
What happens when it’s not the right time to address the problems normally associated with large scale infrastructure? While the other groups analyze more intrusive options for intervention, the Minimal Change group analyses the best ways to manipulate the City without majorly changing the M8. The group focused on noise …
This strategy group based their recommendations on the tunnelling of the M8 and connecting Clydeside Expressway. By tunneling the M8 but retaining it’s original route, the beneficial network connections that the motorway has with the City are retained while countless new benefits are obtained as the Urban Tissue at ground …
What is the least intrusive method of mending the harm caused by large- scale infrastructure? Leave it as it is! The minimal change group explored the ways in which Glasgow’s Urban Fabric and the City as a whole could prosper without intervention on the motorway. This group explored noise reduction …
Following the example of cities like San Francisco and Seoul, this group explored the options of converting the M8 into an Urban Boulevard. Running the same course as the existing M8, the new boulevard is an option that maintains and improves on the existing connectivity benefits of the M8, but …
Glasgow @ Hand – Jacob Dibble & Alessandra Feliciotti This foundation masterplan is based on the combination of several different strategies. By tunneling the M8, space will be created to create vital North/ South and East/ West connections which were not previously possible. The Clydeside Expressway will be converted into …
As our society continues pushing into the future, the adverse effects of the use of the motor vehicle are becoming consistently more evident. Around 60 years ago, in the years after WWII, the world saw a surge of construction of large scale transportation infrastructure: highways and motorways. As the personal …
