The University of Strathclyde trails 20,000sq/m innovation hub
August 29 2022
The University of Strathclyde has shared early concept designs for a 20,000sq/m Passivhaus standard collaborative research facility within the Glasgow City Innovation District.
The Charles Huang Advanced Technology & Innovation Centre is conceptualised around the history of the site as a network of closes and courts with four buildings framing a series of public routes and spaces.
Arranged on top of a shared ground level podium these blocks will rise in height to a landmark tower of stacked laboratories with mechanical and electrical services distributed vertically.
Segregating a city block with a new pedestrian route, a re-established College Lane, the hub will form an outward facing perimeter framing interior circulation space and two new courtyards. A recessed entrance off High Street will skirt a rail tunnel below with a rooflight providing natural light to the public spaces below, connecting to a secondary entrance on Shuttle Street.
In a design statement the applicant wrote: “The building is proposed to be set back 18m from adjacent residential properties on College Street and has developed into two architectural forms – a low-level podium and a higher tower element situated to the north-west corner to collectively accommodate the overall 20,000 sq/m in the brief. The programme for the building is organised and distributed between the podium and tower element.”
A public consultation will run until 23 September ahead of a planning application expected in November.
Construction work is expected to commence in 2023
Ground and first floor levels of the podium are given over to public uses with upper levels hosting collaborative research space
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The interstitial public realm looks tragically inadequate, but then why would you want to spend any time near the blank frontages and service entry/exit points?
The West End is waking up to the fact that the Gilmorehill Masterplan for Glasgow University is, to put it mildly, sub standard and now the High Street and environs will have to put up with similar.
Moxy, the TIC, Innovo, Collegelands, Blackfriars and now this. What has the oldest part of the city done to deserve such riches?
I wonder what we can expect the new High Street Station? The early sketches that have escaped into the wild look like something from the edge of Runcorn.