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Artworks
Dress for the Weather + Toby Paterson RSA
Hielanman's Umbrella. Scale 1:50 modelPhysical Model150 x 210 x 45 cm£ 10,000.00Own Art
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Critical Action Adhair Eadar (The Air Between) This project addresses the submission theme through its approach to locality and historical context. The extraordinary urban condition of the Hielanman’s Umbrella, both...Critical Action Adhair Eadar (The Air Between)
This project addresses the submission theme through its approach to locality and historical context. The extraordinary urban condition of the Hielanman’s Umbrella, both as a masterpiece of Victorian engineering and as a social condenser with a 150 year history, renders it a Glaswegian microcosm. The design team have addressed the site as a signifier of inequity, from its role as a sheltered gathering place for the Highlands and Islands diaspora at the end of the nineteenth century to its current status as a locus for the city’s dispossessed and homeless, all the while recognising it as a unique public space that is a prominent place of exchange in both commercial and infrastructural terms. In sensitively responding to the material and spatial legacy of the Hielanman’s Umbrella through proposals to sustainably improve the environment and atmosphere for all those who frequent it, this project is the first attempt in a quarter century to positively shape this important urban location in a way that recognises its history while suggesting new ways of engaging with the city without resorting to the exclusionary methods of gentrification. Its aim is to make this much-loved but dilapidated landmark fit for all for a changeable future.