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OCA have recently assisted Edinburgh World Heritage Trust with internal adjustments to the building, including the insertion of a new entrance lobby structure, to create a new exhibition space with supporting retail area, allowing both locals and visitors to continue enjoying this much-loved building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565638305949-EUWNMU3WG0UY8M0B3FAE/OCA_Website_Skerrie+House.jpg Projects (Featured on Home Slideshow) - Skerrie House, Anstruther OCA were commissioned to design an extension to an early 19th Century fishing cottage over looking the sea between Anstruther and Cellardyke in Fife’s East Neuk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1722272804399-QFNSAJGTKKFLOTWBCNB1/OCA_Website_690.jpg Projects (Featured on Home Slideshow) Our clients had fallen in love with this unusual ‘cottage in the city’ and the potential that it offered, but were frustrated by its cramped and awkward layout, and the lack of natural light. With a strong emphasis placed on both sustainability and craftsmanship, the reconfiguration of this compact and charming property reflects our clients’ love of art and gardening through a series of interventions which acknowledge the property’s history and the current requirements of its occupants, while also planning for a more environmentally sustainable future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1732728981819-QMRBYHE0S7YMEZIA60HH/OCA_Website_The+Egg+Shed%2C+Ardrishaig-14.jpg Projects (Featured on Home Slideshow) The Egg Shed project revitalised a previously inaccessible and derelict site at the prominent intersection where the Crinan Canal meets Loch Gilp. Through careful research into the area’s history and a considered appreciation of the constraints and opportunities provided by this challenging yet spectacular site, OCA studio sensitively converted the masonry shell of a historic industrial building into a vibrant new resource for locals and visitors alike. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1668006165258-SNEYQO41LLMLB9TW0J3C/OCA_Website_NORTH+SUTHERLAND.jpg Projects (Featured on Home Slideshow) - North Sutherland Health & Social Care Hub, Tongue The building brings together a care home, integrated care team and a new GP service. These functions need separation for practical reasons but a degree of integration for shared service functions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1599837596151-192H81B2GT8UHW04T78Q/OCA_Website_Trinity+Extension+Edinburgh.jpg Projects (Featured on Home Slideshow) We had a high expectation of craftsmanship, just like the Arts and Crafts designers would have done in their day. We avoided concealing construction behind plaster finishes, choosing to detail the timber roof so that its construction is visible and selecting a relatively light tone brick that’s exposed internally. This extra visibility put pressure on many details that don’t normally concern us like stray fixings passing through roof decks or swags of electric cables normally concealed by plaster board. As you step into the extension, you pass the tidied up original brick of the external walls. People often forget that bricks were manufactured in plenty of places in Scotland, not just in England. These ones had ’Niddrie’ embossed on the inside face. Winner of Scottish Design Award 2020 low cost project and commended in the Edinburgh Architectural Association awards 2020 Small Project category. https://ocastudio.co.uk/lock-16-canalside-community-hub-falkirk daily 0.75 2024-11-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565555270322-MGXDWHK00LXTF14IDH38/OCA_Website_Lock+16+Canalside+Community+Hub%2C+Falkirk.jpg Lock 16 Canalside Community Hub, Falkirk - Lock 16 Canalside Community Hub, Falkirk Our proposals for Lock 16 will see the former Barrs Irn-Bru Factory building transformed into a new workshop, offices and training facilities for Scottish Canals and their partnering organisations. The site will be opened up to the local community and visitors both through providing new amenities and employment opportunities and by physically improving the permeability of the site and the transparency of the building fabric. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565555270322-MGXDWHK00LXTF14IDH38/OCA_Website_Lock+16+Canalside+Community+Hub%2C+Falkirk.jpg Lock 16 Canalside Community Hub, Falkirk - Lock 16 Canalside Community Hub, Falkirk Our proposals for Lock 16 will see the former Barrs Irn-Bru Factory building transformed into a new workshop, offices and training facilities for Scottish Canals and their partnering organisations. The site will be opened up to the local community and visitors both through providing new amenities and employment opportunities and by physically improving the permeability of the site and the transparency of the building fabric. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565555377402-VWR750H0B28TJFNOP2NE/OCA_Website_Lock+16+Canalside+Community+Hub%2C+Falkirk2.jpg Lock 16 Canalside Community Hub, Falkirk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565555384867-J0WAGPIV20T699IKTE3E/OCA_Website_Lock-16-Canalside-Community-Hub%2C-Falkirk4.gif Lock 16 Canalside Community Hub, Falkirk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1732922253400-90G7AD0WMCZMWNTX4IEX/578+241126+colours+%26+materials+-+perspective+first+floor+office+copy.jpg Lock 16 Canalside Community Hub, Falkirk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1732922238698-6VI5JKNAQ7P6YTDIXYG5/Workshop.jpg Lock 16 Canalside Community Hub, Falkirk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565555380033-UBN7N64R1UKOWV7WWBUI/OCA_Website_Lock+16+Canalside+Community+Hub%2C+Falkirk3.jpg Lock 16 Canalside Community Hub, Falkirk https://ocastudio.co.uk/macfie-hall-heriot daily 0.75 2019-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565639458947-5PMB04PMZJ5FPIR3YF0I/OCA_Website_Macfie+Hall%2C+Heriot.jpg Macfie Hall, Heriot - Macfie Hall, Heriot Heriot is a small community in the lowland Moorfoot hills, twenty miles south of Edinburgh. It’s village hall sits in a valley with an tranquil view from its west side. Taking inspiration from nearby Borthwick Castle, the remodelling and extension of the hall seeks to evoke similar qualities of pocket-like spaces, especially in its section, as if carved from a solid form. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565639458947-5PMB04PMZJ5FPIR3YF0I/OCA_Website_Macfie+Hall%2C+Heriot.jpg Macfie Hall, Heriot - Macfie Hall, Heriot Heriot is a small community in the lowland Moorfoot hills, twenty miles south of Edinburgh. It’s village hall sits in a valley with an tranquil view from its west side. Taking inspiration from nearby Borthwick Castle, the remodelling and extension of the hall seeks to evoke similar qualities of pocket-like spaces, especially in its section, as if carved from a solid form. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565639468415-MM0G9NE0OOAZ4EK9XRLR/OCA_Website_Macfie+Hall%2C+Heriot2.jpg Macfie Hall, Heriot Two new smaller scale pitched roof forms are slid alongside the main hall; one functions as the primary block for services such as toilets and kitchen, the other as a multi-purpose room that can work either as a separate room from the hall or as a foyer that extends the the hall function to meet the view to the west. This commission was won through design competition and is awaiting funding award. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565639472501-H2XFXO33LYSY3JA5VQC2/OCA_Website_Macfie+Hall%2C+Heriot3.jpg Macfie Hall, Heriot https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565639473886-L7LM1VSRVK3QX2F6UL6X/OCA_Website_Macfie+Hall%2C+Heriot4.jpg Macfie Hall, Heriot https://ocastudio.co.uk/rose-court-galashiels daily 0.75 2024-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1579773624016-5PUK4WP8NHHQHO1CVXOW/OCA_Website_Rose+Court%2C+Galashiels12.jpg Rose Court, Galashiels - Rose Court, Galashiels These ten affordable homes for Scottish Borders Housing Association, on the 1960’s Langlee housing estate in Galashiels, are arranged in a curved terrace. The site’s width and its relatively steep slope does not facilitate a conventional street of houses with regular public front and private rear sides. Both elevations of the new housing in this instance are public facing; the north elevation is a frontage with house entrances and the south elevation, with its good view across the valley to Eildon Hills, is also a frontage but one that represents the scheme to the wider neighbourhood. Therefore both elevations have to balance the competing public and private demands. The parking courtyard is deliberately placed on the north side of the site so the housing terrace conceals it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1579773624016-5PUK4WP8NHHQHO1CVXOW/OCA_Website_Rose+Court%2C+Galashiels12.jpg Rose Court, Galashiels - Rose Court, Galashiels These ten affordable homes for Scottish Borders Housing Association, on the 1960’s Langlee housing estate in Galashiels, are arranged in a curved terrace. The site’s width and its relatively steep slope does not facilitate a conventional street of houses with regular public front and private rear sides. Both elevations of the new housing in this instance are public facing; the north elevation is a frontage with house entrances and the south elevation, with its good view across the valley to Eildon Hills, is also a frontage but one that represents the scheme to the wider neighbourhood. Therefore both elevations have to balance the competing public and private demands. The parking courtyard is deliberately placed on the north side of the site so the housing terrace conceals it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1579773621640-SAEVWQEVV1LI92284ZJG/OCA_Website_Rose+Court%2C+Galashiels122.jpg Rose Court, Galashiels Considering that the Langlee housing estate is on the edge of Galashiels where the town meets the adjacent woodland and agricultural land, its architecture has a particularly urban scale. It is characterised by unconventional housing typologies; three storey point blocks to the north and west with a backdrop of four storey double maisonette blocks and terraced rows to the west, generally all set out with rigidity north and south aspects only. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565638703968-C18BBJ60KMQCW5SENI56/OCA_Website_Rose+Court%2C+Galashiels.jpg Rose Court, Galashiels - Rose Court, Galashiels These ten affordable homes for Scottish Borders Housing Association, on the 1960’s Langlee housing estate in Galashiels, will be arranged in a curved terrace. The site’s width and its relatively steep slope does not facilitate a conventional street of houses with regular public front and private rear sides. Both elevations of the new housing in this instance are public facing; the north elevation is a frontage with house entrances and the south elevation, with its good view across the valley to Eildon Hills, is also a frontage but one that represents the scheme to the wider neighbourhood. Therefore both elevations have to balance the competing public and private demands. The parking courtyard is deliberately placed on the north side of the site so the housing terrace conceals it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565638724759-QO8FVH6FOSSJK450GPVD/OCA_Website_Rose+Court%2C+Galashiels3.jpg Rose Court, Galashiels Of these typologies, it is the terraced housing that is the most successful as it allows residents some private outside space. Its principal shortcoming, however, is that half the houses are generally entered from their back doors rather than their front doors facing the quieter pedestrian paths. Photos by Angus Bremner Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565638716299-9FC7WXTRZ2UMSQXKOB6L/OCA_Website_Rose+Court%2C+Galashiels2.jpg Rose Court, Galashiels https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565638757469-68FMYHIFHHBHB1LZUT7G/OCA_Website_Rose+Court%2C+Galashiels5.jpg Rose Court, Galashiels https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565638759054-DIEIX1GEYR90N8J2W6MO/OCA_Website_Rose+Court%2C+Galashiels6.jpg Rose Court, Galashiels https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565638760710-0JOFHSDEVA8XT083KU6X/OCA_Website_Rose+Court%2C+Galashiels7.jpg Rose Court, Galashiels https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565638762087-DAATN62EUXST0DEEDOKC/OCA_Website_Rose+Court%2C+Galashiels8.jpg Rose Court, Galashiels https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565638762910-JRNHBP91OWGD71I0T927/OCA_Website_Rose+Court%2C+Galashiels9.jpg Rose Court, Galashiels https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565638765960-VXMZEV7FN3CCCVO1P2SD/OCA_Website_Rose+Court%2C+Galashiels10.jpg Rose Court, Galashiels https://ocastudio.co.uk/west-mayfield-edinburgh daily 0.75 2019-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565639731565-6C4DBS79RML8VSEG22HB/OCA_Website_West+Mayfield-Edinburgh.jpg West Mayfield, Edinburgh - West Mayfield, Edinburgh On retirement, this client moved back into their childhood home in Edinburgh’s southside. “It’s a special house with lots of memories and I love being back. The house needed altering so that we could get more connection with the garden. We also wanted to make changes so that we could welcome our children and grandchildren when they come to stay”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565639731565-6C4DBS79RML8VSEG22HB/OCA_Website_West+Mayfield-Edinburgh.jpg West Mayfield, Edinburgh - West Mayfield, Edinburgh On retirement, this client moved back into their childhood home in Edinburgh’s southside. “It’s a special house with lots of memories and I love being back. The house needed altering so that we could get more connection with the garden. We also wanted to make changes so that we could welcome our children and grandchildren when they come to stay”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565639744105-WW0YBVIJS9R0S9TH2DOG/OCA_Website_West+Mayfield-Edinburgh2.jpg West Mayfield, Edinburgh Oliver Chapman Architects worked to alter the lower ground floor of their Listed building, fitting a wetroom shower and utility room next to the spare bedrooms, as well as taking a wall down between two rooms on the upper ground floor to make a large family kitchen dining area with a window seat. The kitchen overlooks a new, award winning, oak terrace and staircase leading to a stone garden terrace and access to the lower ground floor. Wood Awards 2009 Small Project Winner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565639747523-YBVWLXTF22WACO6HJHTZ/OCA_Website_West+Mayfield-Edinburgh3.jpg West Mayfield, Edinburgh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565639754242-9TGXXDD94VSH6DT5DK4W/OCA_Website_West+Mayfield-Edinburgh4.jpg West Mayfield, Edinburgh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565639759966-O18M13G9D9ZKMBI82XKC/OCA_Website_West+Mayfield-Edinburgh5.jpg West Mayfield, Edinburgh https://ocastudio.co.uk/kelpies-visitor-facilities-falkirk daily 0.75 2019-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565640408209-AK6XZ41OJASEO1YWJB1E/OCA_Website_Kelpies+Visitor+Facilities-Falkirk.jpg Kelpies Visitor Facilities, Falkirk - Kelpies Visitor Facilities, Falkirk Scottish Canals commissioned these interlinked modular units at the Kelpies, near Falkirk and Grangemouth. They provide visitor facilities at the very north end of the Helix - the new 300 hectare park that includes woodland, paths, cycleways, water features and two thirty metre high equine sculptures by sculptor Andy Scott. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565640408209-AK6XZ41OJASEO1YWJB1E/OCA_Website_Kelpies+Visitor+Facilities-Falkirk.jpg Kelpies Visitor Facilities, Falkirk - Kelpies Visitor Facilities, Falkirk Scottish Canals commissioned these interlinked modular units at the Kelpies, near Falkirk and Grangemouth. They provide visitor facilities at the very north end of the Helix - the new 300 hectare park that includes woodland, paths, cycleways, water features and two thirty metre high equine sculptures by sculptor Andy Scott. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565640440474-NKUY6TUM5UEBIFDQKK15/OCA_Website_Kelpies+Visitor+Facilities-Falkirk2.jpg Kelpies Visitor Facilities, Falkirk In a similar fashion to the design for the camping cabins proposed for the Caledonian Canal, the units are fabricated entirely off-site where they can be built under controlled conditions. This allows work to continue in parallel whilst the site is prepared enabling an accelerated construction programme. Intended as a temporary facility, they can be individually lifted by a lorry-based crane and re-fitted as canal camping pods at a different site, if needs be. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565640457121-LO8KNAUEFQHKIYQ9VUF8/OCA_Website_Kelpies+Visitor+Facilities-Falkirk3.jpg Kelpies Visitor Facilities, Falkirk Designed around the optimum size and weight parameters for road haulage, these cubic units gain a distinctive identity by a simple turn of the roof’s pitch along a diagonal line and by cladding them in Scottish larch which has been charred. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565640461070-3YC6HXD8RR3WY3LEFUNP/OCA_Website_Kelpies+Visitor+Facilities-Falkirk4.jpg Kelpies Visitor Facilities, Falkirk We see this project as an evolution of our practice’s first commission in 2000 for a finely crafted timber sleeping unit called Bed Box. That project was inspired by a painting of St Jerome in his study that epitomises the space required for solitary occupation and reflection. This recent commission has allowed us to develop other narratives and interpretations as it has consolidated into an archetypal shelter that can house a whole variety of uses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565640462984-IL1DNNLVDUZFWB7JAY1W/OCA_Website_Kelpies+Visitor+Facilities-Falkirk5.jpg Kelpies Visitor Facilities, Falkirk Engineer: David Narro Architects Landscape Architect: Ironside Farrar Project Architect/Photos: Michael Collins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565640463809-8JUH4L2K69TVFNLGFFEM/OCA_Website_Kelpies+Visitor+Facilities-Falkirk6.jpg Kelpies Visitor Facilities, Falkirk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565640465947-XGXVP3VVBPK3O6GUUMIZ/OCA_Website_Kelpies+Visitor+Facilities-Falkirk7.jpg Kelpies Visitor Facilities, Falkirk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565640513660-M43DPFM2O9VSM4ZZD2BF/image-asset.jpeg Kelpies Visitor Facilities, Falkirk - The Kelpies Falkirk https://ocastudio.co.uk/caledonian-canal-camping-pods daily 0.75 2019-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565641350654-CNVI55E5ROSB9VQ4RARI/OCA_Website_Caledonian+Canal+Camping+Pods.jpg Caledonian Canal Camping Pods - Caledonian Canal Camping Pods The enigma of travel in the highlands has driven tourism for generations. Tales of intrepid travellers staying overnight in dramatic landscapes fill the pages of Boswell and Johnson’s diaries, Queen Victoria’s travel journal and Sir Walter Scott’s romantic fiction. Visitors expect overnight stays in buildings that allow them to sense the unique nature of their location alongside the Caledonian Canal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565641350654-CNVI55E5ROSB9VQ4RARI/OCA_Website_Caledonian+Canal+Camping+Pods.jpg Caledonian Canal Camping Pods - Caledonian Canal Camping Pods The enigma of travel in the highlands has driven tourism for generations. Tales of intrepid travellers staying overnight in dramatic landscapes fill the pages of Boswell and Johnson’s diaries, Queen Victoria’s travel journal and Sir Walter Scott’s romantic fiction. Visitors expect overnight stays in buildings that allow them to sense the unique nature of their location alongside the Caledonian Canal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565641365572-EVQSN3Y749X9G35FJZSQ/OCA_Website_Caledonian+Canal+Camping+Pods2.jpg Caledonian Canal Camping Pods The pods are inspired by the box beds used in highland croft houses which are micro ‘rooms’, containing just the bed, with vertical sides, a lid and wooden doors to completely internalize the space. Box beds are somewhere between furniture and architecture, and represent the special qualities of compactness, efficiency, and introversion you experience when staying in a snug, croft house or bothy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565641379040-7JP3RL0ARKJTCABKL5YS/OCA_Website_Caledonian+Canal+Camping+Pods3.jpg Caledonian Canal Camping Pods The cabin’s simple cubic form is disrupted by creating a pitched roof with a diagonal ridge. The charred Scottish larch timber jacket is detailed with semi concealed gutters and aluminium trims to give the illusion of a solid object. In contrast, the interior white limed timber.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565641380734-2STPL3AK1LYNNG2GKI1F/OCA_Website_Caledonian+Canal+Camping+Pods4.jpg Caledonian Canal Camping Pods Commissioned by Scottish Canals and working with Richard Heggie, Urban Animation planning consultant, the camping pods are to be sited in clusters at carefully selected locations along the route of the Caledonian Canal. The first two are at Laggan Lock next to the facilities building designed by young architects Sean Douglas and Gavin Murray in collaboration with us. This was one of the Scottish Government's National Scenic Routes commissions - an initiative that addresses the scarcity of opportunity for young architects in the current climate of risk averse public procurement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565641385936-O5YXBKJH3QOBKEEY0IH4/OCA_Website_Caledonian+Canal+Camping+Pods5.jpg Caledonian Canal Camping Pods https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565641388392-EPVMACJ1PX4UMWZCQK4H/OCA_Website_Caledonian+Canal+Camping+Pods6.jpg Caledonian Canal Camping Pods https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565641390072-8CUWDBP3LMMJL03E51KC/OCA_Website_Caledonian+Canal+Camping+Pods7.jpg Caledonian Canal Camping Pods https://ocastudio.co.uk/holiday-home-carsaig daily 0.75 2019-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565640930871-L854RRD3S1SWW4HFTYFI/OCA_Website_Holiday+home%2C+Carsaig.jpg Holiday home, Carsaig - Holiday home, Carsaig Carsaig is a tiny settlement wrapped around a shingle bay with views west across to the north end of Jura. The site is steeply sloping and wooded, characteristics that created the wish for a house with a small footprint that can thread between trees and make little impact on the ground. It is only six metres by four metres on each of its two levels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565640930871-L854RRD3S1SWW4HFTYFI/OCA_Website_Holiday+home%2C+Carsaig.jpg Holiday home, Carsaig - Holiday home, Carsaig Carsaig is a tiny settlement wrapped around a shingle bay with views west across to the north end of Jura. The site is steeply sloping and wooded, characteristics that created the wish for a house with a small footprint that can thread between trees and make little impact on the ground. It is only six metres by four metres on each of its two levels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565640946279-D7U4BLPJW7W0FLW288VR/OCA_Website_Holiday+home%2C+Carsaig2.jpg Holiday home, Carsaig It is experienced as a short sequence of spaces organised in an ascending spiral around and inside the house. One leaves the lane, proceeds up external stairs, steps into the hall of the bedroom level, continues up behind the kitchen and arrives in the living room. The sequence ends with a large recessed balcony that looks out across the bay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565640949731-CALSJ3HIJES7X3SBK55V/OCA_Website_Holiday+home%2C+Carsaig3.jpg Holiday home, Carsaig https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565640952849-E0VHG32G6T9Y58JL9L8W/OCA_Website_Holiday+home%2C+Carsaig4.jpg Holiday home, Carsaig https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565640955023-AH9NHUFR6ORZ4EISIBSO/OCA_Website_Holiday+home%2C+Carsaig5.jpg Holiday home, Carsaig https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565640957061-WLE7G3PL6CWCWDIWKM7T/OCA_Website_Holiday+home%2C+Carsaig6.jpg Holiday home, Carsaig https://ocastudio.co.uk/kincardine-charrette daily 0.75 2019-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565642654489-MY6YQM3X6VNUP5RX83R3/OCA_Website_Kincardine+Charrette.jpg Kincardine Charrette - Kincardine Charrette Oliver Chapman Architects was appointed by the Coalfields Regeneration Trust to lead a team including urban designers, landscape architects, artists and transport consultants to deliver a charrette shaping the future of Kincardine, following the devastating loss of the local power station. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565642654489-MY6YQM3X6VNUP5RX83R3/OCA_Website_Kincardine+Charrette.jpg Kincardine Charrette - Kincardine Charrette Oliver Chapman Architects was appointed by the Coalfields Regeneration Trust to lead a team including urban designers, landscape architects, artists and transport consultants to deliver a charrette shaping the future of Kincardine, following the devastating loss of the local power station. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565642667638-G0RPP4J1GUENTEK279MK/OCA_Website_Kincardine+Charrette2.jpg Kincardine Charrette A four day long series of intensive design workshops and discussions took place in June 2017, bringing together local people, organisations and businesses to discuss how they would like their area to look and develop into a better place to live, work and visit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565642670724-GUPHQDJHVJ6KHKPEZARD/OCA_Website_Kincardine+Charrette3.jpg Kincardine Charrette The charrette was part funded by the Scottish Government, with match-funding from CRT and Fife Council. The ongoing process will identify both short and long term projects, with any infrastructure proposals - such as traffic or road realignments - potentially taking up to ten or fifteen years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565642674466-SFGT5PMJTCK6V3FQSPS8/OCA_Website_Kincardine+Charrette4.jpg Kincardine Charrette https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565642676647-13AZMCDVISM5Q8GZ3YJ0/OCA_Website_Kincardine+Charrette5.jpg Kincardine Charrette https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565642678878-8CPXJGNWA9KX2VCLV1KD/OCA_Website_Kincardine+Charrette6.jpg Kincardine Charrette https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565642682069-NC5MKEKXNPOULI032VWN/OCA_Website_Kincardine+Charrette7.jpg Kincardine Charrette https://ocastudio.co.uk/community-engagement daily 0.75 2025-01-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565642756518-EY3AQIEIE2YDHGIVZO38/OCA_Website_Crinan+Charrette.+%27Re-think+the+Link%27.jpg Community engagement OCA Studio have extensive experience in carrying out community and stakeholder consultation exercises, including leading several community co-design ‘charettes’ as part of the Scottish Government Making Places Initiative. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565642756518-EY3AQIEIE2YDHGIVZO38/OCA_Website_Crinan+Charrette.+%27Re-think+the+Link%27.jpg Community engagement OCA Studio have extensive experience in carrying out community and stakeholder consultation exercises, including leading several community co-design ‘charettes’ as part of the Scottish Government Making Places Initiative. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565642775598-B2VASLH5VRDURM0BQEGG/OCA_Website_Crinan+Charrette.+%27Re-think+the+Link%273.jpg Community engagement Our ‘Re-Think the Link’ four day community and stakeholder design event for Scottish Canals and Argyll and Bute Council focused on settlements along the Crinan Canal. The lively programme, which included a Pecha Kucha event, walking tours, and a variety of group workshops, attracted a high level of participation from across the local area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565642778198-IZ2JEY04Z2PAWEKTF98R/OCA_Website_Crinan+Charrette.+%27Re-think+the+Link%274.jpg Community engagement These events bring together members of the local community, and local policy and decision makers, landowners, and design and industry professionals, giving local people a voice and empowering them to shape their communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1736940464318-9QSX48Q5RR11VHGVD8R4/OCA_Website_Kincardine+Charrette6.jpg Community engagement At our ‘Go Forth Kincardine!’ series of community design events held for local charity the Coalfields Regeneration Trust we used a variety of media to portray opinion and generate consensus, including the Place Standard Toolkit, which effectively highlights key benefits, issues and opportunities within the local area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1736942438109-X2J2BJA224JDIEB9NHYD/OCA_Website_Charrette10.jpg Community engagement ‘Design Dunfermline’ was a series of workshops, discussions, and activities funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and the Scottish Government which we led for the Dunfermline Heritage Partnership. We brought together members of the local community and key stakeholders and professionals to discuss options for the future of the historic town centre, and to implement pathways for how these could be taken forward. This included engaging with ‘harder-to-reach’ demographics through innovative events such as the ‘Dunfermline Belongings’ exhibition and ‘Giant Dunfermline’ place mapping with local high school pupils. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1736942496328-5TUGWWT1KOFHBRSM55FX/OCA_Website_Charrette11.jpg Community engagement We fully understand the importance of clear presentation and visual portrayals to benefit from maximum engagement from participants. We engage via a variety of mediums to provide a loose and stimulating platform for engagement – including physical and digital modelling, diagrams and drawings – to focus minds on what is possible and to help new groupings of people identify with a common cause. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1736942467415-APDJJ3NX9QF3THMI034S/OCA_Website_Charrette.6.jpg Community engagement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1736942552854-IXQL05HMTD7N7289XVIB/OCA_Website_Charrette.13.jpg Community engagement https://ocastudio.co.uk/kings-stables-cultural-hub-masterplan daily 0.75 2019-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565643023281-KGZATPICDWGI0RJGSKIM/OCA_Website_Kings+Stables+Cultural+Hub%C2%A0Masterplan.jpg Kings Stables Cultural Hub Masterplan - Kings Stables Cultural Hub Masterplan Despite the appearance of being sites prime for improvement, certain key places in central Edinburgh are not viable for development because of quirks of ownership and lease arrangements. Argyle House at West Port is one of these. We set out to imagine the site beyond the technicalities of the current lease arrangement and see what opportunities there might be to accommodate a mixture of creative uses and reconnect currently disconnected lanes, wynds and vennels. This speculative proposal is our response to the City of Edinburgh Council’s invitation to consider spaces for the city’s ‘Cultural Future’ summit event. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565643023281-KGZATPICDWGI0RJGSKIM/OCA_Website_Kings+Stables+Cultural+Hub%C2%A0Masterplan.jpg Kings Stables Cultural Hub Masterplan - Kings Stables Cultural Hub Masterplan Despite the appearance of being sites prime for improvement, certain key places in central Edinburgh are not viable for development because of quirks of ownership and lease arrangements. Argyle House at West Port is one of these. We set out to imagine the site beyond the technicalities of the current lease arrangement and see what opportunities there might be to accommodate a mixture of creative uses and reconnect currently disconnected lanes, wynds and vennels. This speculative proposal is our response to the City of Edinburgh Council’s invitation to consider spaces for the city’s ‘Cultural Future’ summit event. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565643033518-ZEVTPJSM7CNFOHCLUN11/OCA_Website_Kings+Stables+Cultural+Hub%C2%A0Masterplan2.jpg Kings Stables Cultural Hub Masterplan The present building acts as a large physical barrier between West Port, Edinburgh Castle, Castle Terrace and the Grassmarket. Rather than starting by thinking of a replacement ‘building’, this proposals starts by creating ‘routes and places’ at the heart of the site. It does this in both plan and section and includes two large cultural venues that share a single foyer; a medium sized music venue above (the Scottish Chamber Orchestra perhaps) and an independent cinema (the Filmhouse perhaps) below in the cutting of the site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565643036452-I9T2ZOJLEWCXKZ73ADNP/OCA_Website_Kings+Stables+Cultural+Hub%C2%A0Masterplan3.jpg Kings Stables Cultural Hub Masterplan https://ocastudio.co.uk/selkirk-conservation-area-regeneration-scheme daily 0.75 2019-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565642945909-JSK35YCDHR2SVQ2U1PBZ/OCA_Website_Selkirk+Conservation+Area+Regeneration+Scheme.jpg Selkirk Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme - Selkirk Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme The Selkirk CARS project is focused on a range of heritage and conservation-based regeneration activities. Funding was successfully obtained from Historic Scotland for a heritage-led regeneration project for the town centre with match-funding from the local authority. The scheme will offer grants towards repair works to traditional buildings as well as supporting complementary initiatives, such as Community Heritage Projects and Traditional Skills Training, to increase awareness and understanding of the town's rich heritage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565642945909-JSK35YCDHR2SVQ2U1PBZ/OCA_Website_Selkirk+Conservation+Area+Regeneration+Scheme.jpg Selkirk Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme - Selkirk Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme The Selkirk CARS project is focused on a range of heritage and conservation-based regeneration activities. Funding was successfully obtained from Historic Scotland for a heritage-led regeneration project for the town centre with match-funding from the local authority. The scheme will offer grants towards repair works to traditional buildings as well as supporting complementary initiatives, such as Community Heritage Projects and Traditional Skills Training, to increase awareness and understanding of the town's rich heritage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565642956848-5QE5ADXFH0K3X7I8CIED/OCA_Website_Selkirk+Conservation+Area+Regeneration+Scheme2.jpg Selkirk Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme As part of this scheme, Oliver Chapman Architects were commissioned to create a report into under-utilised sites and opportunities for regeneration within the town centre. Through a careful study and analysis of the area and its development throughout history, several key sites and environments were identified as being in particular need of regeneration and improvement. Ideas for these sites were then discussed in collaboration with members of the local community, alongside the Selkirk CARS Steering group, the Selkirk Regeneration Company, and Scottish Borders Council. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565642960123-CBQAV7L2PPTNGQZGO7MH/OCA_Website_Selkirk+Conservation+Area+Regeneration+Scheme3.jpg Selkirk Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565642965278-E3FNVCI2XR9103P6RMCQ/OCA_Website_Selkirk+Conservation+Area+Regeneration+Scheme4.jpg Selkirk Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565642966455-7I4EHFH10PF6KYBEMEG0/OCA_Website_Selkirk+Conservation+Area+Regeneration+Scheme5.jpg Selkirk Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme https://ocastudio.co.uk/kings-buildings-nursery daily 0.75 2019-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723567417-IVYZF71S6JKTGUZ4HC6C/OCA_Website_Kings+Buildings+Nursery.jpg Kings Buildings Nursery - Kings Buildings Nursery In the spirit of the Forest Schools movement, the intention is to place outdoor play and exploration at the heart of this progressive nursery. A simple, nearly rectangular building form is peppered with curvilinear edged glass courtyards which draw children into them at every opportunity. Three of the site’s trees will not be lost by its construction. Each tree’s shadow conceptually generates the plan of its own courtyard – the shadow of the north west summer sun, the winter equinox and the north star – linking the building to stories so the children can share a fascination with nature. By making each activity space ‘self sufficient’ with its own set of toilets, kitchen and storage, the need to circulate outdoors in poorer weather is minimized. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723567417-IVYZF71S6JKTGUZ4HC6C/OCA_Website_Kings+Buildings+Nursery.jpg Kings Buildings Nursery - Kings Buildings Nursery In the spirit of the Forest Schools movement, the intention is to place outdoor play and exploration at the heart of this progressive nursery. A simple, nearly rectangular building form is peppered with curvilinear edged glass courtyards which draw children into them at every opportunity. Three of the site’s trees will not be lost by its construction. Each tree’s shadow conceptually generates the plan of its own courtyard – the shadow of the north west summer sun, the winter equinox and the north star – linking the building to stories so the children can share a fascination with nature. By making each activity space ‘self sufficient’ with its own set of toilets, kitchen and storage, the need to circulate outdoors in poorer weather is minimized. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723576241-IP5OXGWKEERI7Y81WRHW/OCA_Website_Kings+Buildings+Nursery2.jpg Kings Buildings Nursery The rooms do also link up internally in series, room to room for really bad weather. The staff areas are at the ‘head’ of the plan with good visibility over all the nursery areas as well as the public entrance for security. PassivHaus standards can be set as targets for energy and air infiltration. Timber can be used extensively and innovative methods of construction such as cross-laminated off-site panels, can be explored. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723579524-HLCJKZ94N0ZN72K3GBBL/OCA_Website_Kings+Buildings+Nursery3.jpg Kings Buildings Nursery https://ocastudio.co.uk/dundee-central-baptist-hall daily 0.75 2019-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723485317-TZ9UEWFVGXWRKY4ZAKLK/OCA_Website_Dundee+Central+Baptist+Hall.jpg Dundee Central Baptist Hall - Dundee Central Baptist Hall A derelict auction house adjacent to the existing church has been replaced with a two storey church hall (600m2) to accommodate a variety of multi purpose rooms for the church’s many activities. Despite the site having neighbouring buildings overshadowing it, the design brings daylight into each principal space in a dramatic way. The main hall can approached both directly through the new entrance from the street and from the existing church. Despite having a first floor above it, natural light floods the main hall, unexpectedly at the rear of the space, providing an illuminated destination for visitors. Natural light is also maintained in the existing church’s first floor sanctuary through roof glazing along the west edge of the new building. This allows light to spill across the brick east elevation of the church. The stone tracery of the existing church is visible from within the church hall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723485317-TZ9UEWFVGXWRKY4ZAKLK/OCA_Website_Dundee+Central+Baptist+Hall.jpg Dundee Central Baptist Hall - Dundee Central Baptist Hall A derelict auction house adjacent to the existing church has been replaced with a two storey church hall (600m2) to accommodate a variety of multi purpose rooms for the church’s many activities. Despite the site having neighbouring buildings overshadowing it, the design brings daylight into each principal space in a dramatic way. The main hall can approached both directly through the new entrance from the street and from the existing church. Despite having a first floor above it, natural light floods the main hall, unexpectedly at the rear of the space, providing an illuminated destination for visitors. Natural light is also maintained in the existing church’s first floor sanctuary through roof glazing along the west edge of the new building. This allows light to spill across the brick east elevation of the church. The stone tracery of the existing church is visible from within the church hall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723499723-042T3A948FAA81A3LMOD/OCA_Website_Dundee+Central+Baptist+Hall2.jpg Dundee Central Baptist Hall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723503268-YRJWKBX5X1YDNYKLXO07/OCA_Website_Dundee+Central+Baptist+Hall3.jpg Dundee Central Baptist Hall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723504873-Z1Z1E96YH6A9E08X0GPZ/OCA_Website_Dundee+Central+Baptist+Hall4.jpg Dundee Central Baptist Hall https://ocastudio.co.uk/countesswells-visitors-centre-aberdeen daily 0.75 2019-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723261499-DX5PBWLI6SVATXDIS2CF/OCA_Website_Countesswells+Visitors+Centre%2C+Aberdeen.jpg Countesswells Visitors Centre, Aberdeen - Countesswells Visitors Centre, Aberdeen Oliver Chapman Architects have been working with Stewart Milne Group to create a new visitor centre as part of a new masterplan for Countesswells outside Aberdeen. This new mixed-use development features over 3000 homes, as well as shops and new education and medical facilities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723261499-DX5PBWLI6SVATXDIS2CF/OCA_Website_Countesswells+Visitors+Centre%2C+Aberdeen.jpg Countesswells Visitors Centre, Aberdeen - Countesswells Visitors Centre, Aberdeen Oliver Chapman Architects have been working with Stewart Milne Group to create a new visitor centre as part of a new masterplan for Countesswells outside Aberdeen. This new mixed-use development features over 3000 homes, as well as shops and new education and medical facilities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723271477-05PTTJ2IODINOZHG0OPI/OCA_Website_Countesswells+Visitors+Centre%2C+Aberdeen2.jpg Countesswells Visitors Centre, Aberdeen The folded zinc form of the visitor centre creates a light and welcoming destination which ties into the wider landscape strategy developed by OPEN to encourage pedestrian movement through the site, connecting existing woodland and waterways with new leisure and equestrian routes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723273385-Q8YD1LNORWN1KKUSOH07/OCA_Website_Countesswells+Visitors+Centre%2C+Aberdeen3.jpg Countesswells Visitors Centre, Aberdeen https://ocastudio.co.uk/edinburgh-printmakers-fountainbridge daily 0.75 2019-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565722859115-1P7XB8HUADLY3GP2VPO0/OCA_Website_Edinburgh+Printmakers%2C+Fountainbridge.jpg Edinburgh Printmakers, Fountainbridge - Edinburgh Printmakers, Fountainbridge Edinburgh Printmakers have existed in quirky examples of Edinburgh’s limited remaining range of industrial buildings; the former fruit market adjoining Waverley Station, a communal washhouse steamie near Broughton and, in the near future, a former rubber factory in Fountainbridge. A pleasant sympathy exists between the productive labour that took place in these buildings and the artistic production processes involved in printmaking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565722859115-1P7XB8HUADLY3GP2VPO0/OCA_Website_Edinburgh+Printmakers%2C+Fountainbridge.jpg Edinburgh Printmakers, Fountainbridge - Edinburgh Printmakers, Fountainbridge Edinburgh Printmakers have existed in quirky examples of Edinburgh’s limited remaining range of industrial buildings; the former fruit market adjoining Waverley Station, a communal washhouse steamie near Broughton and, in the near future, a former rubber factory in Fountainbridge. A pleasant sympathy exists between the productive labour that took place in these buildings and the artistic production processes involved in printmaking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565722876516-SSFDJZ7PRUC15IYR915N/OCA_Website_Edinburgh+Printmakers%2C+Fountainbridge2.jpg Edinburgh Printmakers, Fountainbridge The former North British Rubber Company building in Fountainbridge was built from Niddrie brick in the late 19th Century, and aggrandised in the Edwardian era, fulfilling its largest order to supply tyres and rubber boots for the troops in the First World War. It is easy to forget Edinburgh’s Victorian employed were not all financiers, educators, public servants and brewers. The Rubber Company employed approximately 70,000 workers over its history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565722898861-SP6WJDQAZ9VXTHHD733V/OCA_Website_Edinburgh+Printmakers%2C+Fountainbridge3.jpg Edinburgh Printmakers, Fountainbridge Oliver Chapman Architects directed this relocation & refurbishment project through options appraisals, feasibility, brief development and initial design leading to the successful award of £5.7m from funders including the Heritage Lottery Enterprise Fund and Creative Scotland's Large Capital Grants Programme. Other consultants have since been procured to develop the project through the remaining stages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565722903483-ZYV3DQMTBCPZNL2431GT/OCA_Website_Edinburgh+Printmakers%2C+Fountainbridge4.jpg Edinburgh Printmakers, Fountainbridge The characteristics of printmaking techniques lend themselves to abstract interpretation to help inform the architectural response to any intervention in their building. ’Impression, trace, figure, void’ are all terms commonly shared by architects and printmakers alike. Our approach maintains the significance of the Edwardian entrance and adds a top lit circulation spine that threads the length of the building. Voids allow light penetration and visual connections between adjacent areas of print production and between public visitors and printmaker members, encouraging creative collaboration and curiosity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565722905849-LKMZLPEQMUY2AZMU6KVR/OCA_Website_Edinburgh+Printmakers%2C+Fountainbridge5.jpg Edinburgh Printmakers, Fountainbridge Structural Engineers - David Narro Associates Environmental Engineers - Max Fordham Access Consultants - Burdus https://ocastudio.co.uk/ramp-house-bellfield-land-portobello daily 0.75 2023-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723335329-5LAXB1UGHE9HHN4X708F/OCA_Website_Ramp+House%2C+Bellfield+Land%2C+Portobello.jpg Ramp House, Bellfield Land, Portobello - Ramp House, Bellfield Land, Portobello Oliver Chapman Architects assisted with the client’s own practice, Chambers McMillan, with technical services. This £247,000 barrier free accessible home was designed to meet the needs of the clients’ daughter. The house includes a ramp for eight year old Greta who is a wheelchair user, and its 145m² are built on a tight site along a small piece of land in Portobello near Edinburgh. It was crucial to enable the family to remain living in the supportive community where Greta was born, and the house’s design lets her play just like any other eight-year old. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723335329-5LAXB1UGHE9HHN4X708F/OCA_Website_Ramp+House%2C+Bellfield+Land%2C+Portobello.jpg Ramp House, Bellfield Land, Portobello - Ramp House, Bellfield Land, Portobello Oliver Chapman Architects assisted with the client’s own practice, Chambers McMillan, with technical services. This £247,000 barrier free accessible home was designed to meet the needs of the clients’ daughter. The house includes a ramp for eight year old Greta who is a wheelchair user, and its 145m² are built on a tight site along a small piece of land in Portobello near Edinburgh. It was crucial to enable the family to remain living in the supportive community where Greta was born, and the house’s design lets her play just like any other eight-year old. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723351505-SN5QK18QXA1J2EK2MZ69/OCA_Website_Ramp+House%2C+Bellfield+Land%2C+Portobello2.jpg Ramp House, Bellfield Land, Portobello The inclusion of a ramp rather than a lift allows an enhanced experience of three dimensional space. Movement between levels offers an important connection to understanding and development. The house has interconnecting spaces in plan and in section to enable visual and aural connections between many of the spaces. Photos: David Barbour Scottish Design Awards 2013 Residential Category Winner | Scottish Design Awards 2013 Chairman’s Award for Architecture | Edinburgh Architectural Association Award 2013 https://ocastudio.co.uk/scotlands-housing-expo-inverness daily 0.75 2019-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723388524-EX95BGE34B0KKY0FO28B/OCA_Website_Scotland%27s+Housing+Expo%2C+Inverness.jpg Scotland's Housing Expo, Inverness - Scotland's Housing Expo, Inverness These are prototypes for rural houses where typically more land is going spare than in urban areas, allowing all rooms to be at ground level and directed towards the view with less concern about privacy. They have been designed with a budget similar to those used in the affordable housing sector and to Scotland’s ‘Housing for Varying Needs’ standard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723388524-EX95BGE34B0KKY0FO28B/OCA_Website_Scotland%27s+Housing+Expo%2C+Inverness.jpg Scotland's Housing Expo, Inverness - Scotland's Housing Expo, Inverness These are prototypes for rural houses where typically more land is going spare than in urban areas, allowing all rooms to be at ground level and directed towards the view with less concern about privacy. They have been designed with a budget similar to those used in the affordable housing sector and to Scotland’s ‘Housing for Varying Needs’ standard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723409564-R37RWXRDH3BY5GPEP90D/OCA_Website_Scotland%27s+Housing+Expo%2C+Inverness2.jpg Scotland's Housing Expo, Inverness The bedroom and kitchens face one way, living and dining areas face the other to make the most of the different directions of morning and afternoon sun. The plan’s ‘L’ shape means that the houses be arranged so that they interlock, forming a small entrance courtyard which shelters the recessed porch from prevailing winds. The skewed roof ridges continue the twisting and pivoting effect of the composition and the ceilings within the houses themselves rise and fall to create a dynamic spatial arrangement. The exterior walls are clad in cedar shingles, which have a natural pleasant aroma. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723438939-X7TH62YTIFLWTE0EKO68/OCA_Website_Scotland%27s+Housing+Expo%2C+Inverness3.jpg Scotland's Housing Expo, Inverness The houses demonstrate how energy efficiency can be achieved by simply adapting a technique such as timber frame, which is used extensively in Scotland. We think it’s best to get the basics right first before resorting to adding renewable energy devices, so our focus has been to get the best energy performing building ‘envelope’ that we can within the modest budget, and then use a renewable source to supply heat only when really necessary, for example the air exhaust heat pump, which exploits the temperature differential between inside and outside by exchanging heat in the air to heat in a water circuit. This heated water is then used to supply the underfloor heating system and domestic hot water for the properties. Client: Highland Housing Alliance Photos: Paul Zanre & Michael Collins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723440682-IQZCKZTYQ1QY36T33G5X/OCA_Website_Scotland%27s+Housing+Expo%2C+Inverness4.jpg Scotland's Housing Expo, Inverness https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723444053-8QDWJOL8M24H2A2T1WDL/OCA_Website_Scotland%27s+Housing+Expo%2C+Inverness5.jpg Scotland's Housing Expo, Inverness https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723445591-XGTSZX9P2YRQYKLTCHIV/OCA_Website_Scotland%27s+Housing+Expo%2C+Inverness6.jpg Scotland's Housing Expo, Inverness https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723448695-Q4IF57DKI9KP248S4404/OCA_Website_Scotland%27s+Housing+Expo%2C+Inverness7.jpg Scotland's Housing Expo, Inverness https://ocastudio.co.uk/marchhall-road-edinburgh daily 0.75 2019-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723733576-3SR0S8GWYVR1HNRPNWL6/OCA_Website_Marchhall+Road%2C+Edinburgh.jpg Marchhall Road, Edinburgh - Marchhall Road, Edinburgh All too often creating drama in an interior is assumed to require radically changing a house from a being set of distinct separate rooms to a single open plan space. This process often removes the character of the original house with its specific cornices and fireplaces defining each room’s purpose. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723733576-3SR0S8GWYVR1HNRPNWL6/OCA_Website_Marchhall+Road%2C+Edinburgh.jpg Marchhall Road, Edinburgh - Marchhall Road, Edinburgh All too often creating drama in an interior is assumed to require radically changing a house from a being set of distinct separate rooms to a single open plan space. This process often removes the character of the original house with its specific cornices and fireplaces defining each room’s purpose. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723748869-F9ZP9XE6C7SAV66YM6S3/OCA_Website_Marchhall+Road%2C+Edinburgh2.jpg Marchhall Road, Edinburgh Instead, making selective new openings to align doorways and window can bring the satisfaction of say glimpsing the rear garden from the entrance hall, or allowing borrowed light to enter a room previously denied it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723751575-QNWEQ3NV229QAIIOAHKI/OCA_Website_Marchhall+Road%2C+Edinburgh3.jpg Marchhall Road, Edinburgh Having lived in the property for twenty years, the clients were well-placed to separate the idiosyncrasies that they wanted to retain to keep the character of their blonde sandstone Victorian semi, and those they wanted to improve upon. “Victorian houses like this often have a very dark rear area,” explains Craig, “there were a couple of doors that led into what would have been the maid’s area and original kitchen, but they could not be opened together, so it created this kind of ‘social airlock’.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723752684-CWRFSEEITTPV7O1S9J3I/OCA_Website_Marchhall+Road%2C+Edinburgh4.jpg Marchhall Road, Edinburgh https://ocastudio.co.uk/admiralty-elie daily 0.75 2019-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723865329-V06M5YSQDVSV4RURNB9Z/OCA_Website_Admiralty%2C+Elie.jpg Admiralty, Elie - Admiralty, Elie OCA carried out a full renovation of this early-18th century fisherman’s cottage in the coastal town of Elie in Fife’s East Neuk. The layout of the cottage was virtually unchanged since its construction, albeit with the addition of more modern amenities in the last century. The redesign maintained the original organisation of living and sleeping areas, and focused on aligning the bathroom and kitchen along the back wall of the building to allow the main living space to benefit from natural light and views out across the garden to the Firth of Forth beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723865329-V06M5YSQDVSV4RURNB9Z/OCA_Website_Admiralty%2C+Elie.jpg Admiralty, Elie - Admiralty, Elie OCA carried out a full renovation of this early-18th century fisherman’s cottage in the coastal town of Elie in Fife’s East Neuk. The layout of the cottage was virtually unchanged since its construction, albeit with the addition of more modern amenities in the last century. The redesign maintained the original organisation of living and sleeping areas, and focused on aligning the bathroom and kitchen along the back wall of the building to allow the main living space to benefit from natural light and views out across the garden to the Firth of Forth beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723875591-7JLV9T3RBBPAA07JLGY5/OCA_Website_Admiralty%2C+Elie2.jpg Admiralty, Elie Working within the footprint of the existing cottage challenged us to optimise all available space, minimising the floor areas dedicated to circulation in order to free up more space for living, and tucking carefully-designed storage units within the irregular nooks and crannies. The original floor plan was obstructed by a masonry chimney stack, a later addition to the property which occupied valuable space internally. This was removed and the hearth reinstated in its original location to the centre of the angled gable wall, with a new masonry chimney constructed to the gable wall head as it would have been when the cottage was built. To further augment the open and spacious nature of the new interior the main living space was opened up into the roof volume, with the exposed and white-painted timber structure adding a subtle sculptural quality overhead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723956340-IUJQS01C3Y8X9DQBHCS2/OCA_Website_Admiralty%2C+Elie7.jpg Admiralty, Elie The cottage’s interesting quirks and original features were retained throughout: a defunct press cupboard in what was previously the bathroom was brought back into everyday use as kitchen storage; the floor boards were taken up to allow new joists and insulation to be fitted before being carefully relaid and painted; and ironmongery reused from existing doors and windows. New fittings and finishes were selected with simplicity in mind, bringing the cottage into the 21st century while remaining sympathetic to the property’s rich history and character. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723891639-P1Z2Z788V440XOHK8VT5/OCA_Website_Admiralty%2C+Elie3.jpg Admiralty, Elie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723893652-51HHXH03OD4M10O2OV3U/OCA_Website_Admiralty%2C+Elie4.jpg Admiralty, Elie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723898842-HY8MUVAIV39UM974Y63I/OCA_Website_Admiralty%2C+Elie5.jpg Admiralty, Elie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723900030-VBH69J3G72ARM7346FM9/OCA_Website_Admiralty%2C+Elie6.jpg Admiralty, Elie https://ocastudio.co.uk/todlaw-supported-housing-duns daily 0.75 2024-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1732723911194-75TI6DE4I7EZLVW1U60S/image-asset.jpeg Todlaw Supported Housing, Duns Working with the Scottish Borders Council, the NHS and Berwickshire Housing Association, OCA Studio designed 14 semi-detached houses and a shared services facility for people with a variety of support needs at Duns in the Scottish Borders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1732723911194-75TI6DE4I7EZLVW1U60S/image-asset.jpeg Todlaw Supported Housing, Duns Working with the Scottish Borders Council, the NHS and Berwickshire Housing Association, OCA Studio designed 14 semi-detached houses and a shared services facility for people with a variety of support needs at Duns in the Scottish Borders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1595340847777-T3YFF5JU03ISZUGH8QO7/Todlaw.+Photo+credit+Angus+Bremner.JPG Todlaw Supported Housing, Duns The semi-detached dwellings feature steep dual-pitched roofs, which are set out to match the traditional slated roofs of the surrounding area, and a modern take on a traditional ‘cottage-style’ arrangement of door and window openings to the entrance façade; a visual identity deliberately developed to evoke the concept of ‘home’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1595337412443-XRI05S8JZ7VY5YSUC5YS/july+2005+aerial.jpg Todlaw Supported Housing, Duns The idea of the cluster of dwellings was developed to encourage sociability, togetherness and community, while simultaneously permitting varying degrees of independence and privacy in line with the individual care needs of the occupants. An overarching colour and material palette characterises each building as part of the community, yet each is given its own unique twist, both in terms of design and materiality as well as physically in plan. This has the effect of creating a ‘tartan grid’ arrangement of built form and sheltered external space, the orientation of each house carefully considered to provide privacy and views out to the surrounding landscape, as well as connection to its neighbours. The scattered arrangement of small, pitched forms reflects the jumbled roofscapes of local villages, and helps to root the development in its rural context. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565722983867-27C0QBS35MYAG7F3YFQ0/OCA_Website_Todlaw+Supported+Housing%2C+Duns2.jpg Todlaw Supported Housing, Duns Contractors: JSL Swintons of Hawick Care Service Providers: Community Integrated Care. Photos: Angus Bremner and Paul Zanre RIBA Award 2008 | RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Shortlist | Scottish Borders Council Design Award, Winner, Best Housing 2008/2009 | Scottish Design Awards 2008 Commendation | EAA Award 2008 Commendation | Community Care Excellence Award 2008 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1595340743972-M883SWGO4ZHBXK24V4HQ/184+todlaw+plan+1.500+cropped.jpg Todlaw Supported Housing, Duns https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1595340941051-NRZ8WGUY4A1IBUWX3466/184+todlaw+section+1.500+cropped.jpg Todlaw Supported Housing, Duns https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565722963388-UQ1G67QKZ8Z7AUHKD5U8/OCA_Website_Todlaw+Supported+Housing%2C+Duns.jpg Todlaw Supported Housing, Duns - Todlaw Supported Housing, Duns Working with the Scottish Borders Council, the NHS and Berwickshire Housing Association, OCA designed 14 semi-detached houses and a shared services facility for people with disabilities at Duns. The houses are clustered around a new quiet street. All the houses are set out around a ‘tartan grid’ which creates a varying relationship between houses and the road. Some houses are set back further from the road than the convention, whilst others are set close to the road edge. There is also a mixture of gables and eaves adjacent to the road which adds to the streetscape character. The commonly understood character of a home is created by designing duo pitched roof form with gables at either end. OCA’s urban design framework for the surrounding area will ensure that the care facility will integrate into areas of future social and private housing. https://ocastudio.co.uk/the-courier-residential-conversion-haddington daily 0.75 2025-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723041236-3NCT9PWYGCTW7XDCOUA0/OCA_Website_%27The+Courier%27+Residential+Conversion%2C+Haddington.jpg 'The Courier' Residential Conversion, Haddington - 'The Courier' Residential Conversion, Haddington A key historic building in the centre of Haddington has been brought back to life despite being at risk of dereliction only two years ago. In 2009 the B Listed Maltings, Newton Port, was languishing on the Buildings at Risk register and the prospect of it being put on the property market at the start of the recession, didn’t bode well for its future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723041236-3NCT9PWYGCTW7XDCOUA0/OCA_Website_%27The+Courier%27+Residential+Conversion%2C+Haddington.jpg 'The Courier' Residential Conversion, Haddington - 'The Courier' Residential Conversion, Haddington A key historic building in the centre of Haddington has been brought back to life despite being at risk of dereliction only two years ago. In 2009 the B Listed Maltings, Newton Port, was languishing on the Buildings at Risk register and the prospect of it being put on the property market at the start of the recession, didn’t bode well for its future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723058166-CVP2A87ZAHJZHL5SUWQA/OCA_Website_%27The+Courier%27+Residential+Conversion%2C+Haddington2.jpg 'The Courier' Residential Conversion, Haddington OCA were commissioned by Whiteadder Developments and East Lothian Housing Association to Convert the derelict former maltings into 14 affordable low energy modern apartments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723085535-AIYTCXVDS6L3VQWPUU28/OCA_Website_%27The+Courier%27+Residential+Conversion%2C+Haddington3.jpg 'The Courier' Residential Conversion, Haddington The site was three former buildings, parts of which date back to the sixteenth century, located in the heart of mediaeval Royal burgh town at a key entrance to the market square. Its various uses over many years have included a chemist shop, flats, maltings, and newspaper offices and printing works for the ‘Courier’ newspaper. Part of the archaeological report revealed it had been built over a mediaeval cemetery. The conversion required many new features and technology to be added, but not of this substantially affected the layout of original stone walls. As part of the building’s innovative energy strategy, the new apartments are super insulated and use a communal heating system. This distributes metered hot water for heating and taps directly to each flat. Extensive building services required for ventilation, sprinklers and electrics are hidden, invisible from the street. A new heavily insulated roof was installed on the top floor with large roof-lights which provide dramatic views across the Lammermuir hills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723087637-XJJ6E6FVXG9AZBW0BH7L/OCA_Website_%27The+Courier%27+Residential+Conversion%2C+Haddington4.jpg 'The Courier' Residential Conversion, Haddington At a time when many historic buildings are in danger of being seen more as a liability than as an opportunity, this project is a welcome example of a successful attempt to bring affordable community life back in to a town centre despite the economic stagnation. It paves the way for future improvements to the immediate area which should restore Newton Port's status as a major element of Haddington’s public thoroughfare. Scottish Home Awards 2012 Small Housing Development of the Year Award | Scottish Home Awards 2012 Conversion of the Year Commendation https://ocastudio.co.uk/doggerfisher-edinburgh daily 0.75 2019-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723192843-E1I7R4EA6O8652QECF0O/OCA_Website_doggerfisher.jpg doggerfisher, Edinburgh - doggerfisher, Edinburgh Susanna Beaumont, a leading agent for Scottish contemporary artists, commissioned this conversion of a former car tyre garage into an art gallery and office in the New Town of Edinburgh. Working with a modest budget, three free-standing walls have been carefully aligned to screen secondary activities such as the office, toilets and the kitchen. The resultant gallery space has a very ordered arrangement in plan. It is also ‘clutter-free’ which avoids visual conflict between the art on display and the architecture in the background. The wall planes used for exhibiting are subtly detailed to appear as if they ‘float’ between the floor and beneath the roof structure. The materials and structure of the original building are kept visible beyond the new white screen exhibiting walls. Electrics and plumbing services are discreet and there are various options for lighting art. Best new visual arts venue 2001, Scotsman Newspaper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723192843-E1I7R4EA6O8652QECF0O/OCA_Website_doggerfisher.jpg doggerfisher, Edinburgh - doggerfisher, Edinburgh Susanna Beaumont, a leading agent for Scottish contemporary artists, commissioned this conversion of a former car tyre garage into an art gallery and office in the New Town of Edinburgh. Working with a modest budget, three free-standing walls have been carefully aligned to screen secondary activities such as the office, toilets and the kitchen. The resultant gallery space has a very ordered arrangement in plan. It is also ‘clutter-free’ which avoids visual conflict between the art on display and the architecture in the background. The wall planes used for exhibiting are subtly detailed to appear as if they ‘float’ between the floor and beneath the roof structure. The materials and structure of the original building are kept visible beyond the new white screen exhibiting walls. Electrics and plumbing services are discreet and there are various options for lighting art. Best new visual arts venue 2001, Scotsman Newspaper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723206511-POBJTBZ3PTHRNV0XIONR/OCA_Website_doggerfisher2.jpg doggerfisher, Edinburgh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723209108-DNGC7DNRPWGZPNB7N2A4/OCA_Website_doggerfisher3.jpg doggerfisher, Edinburgh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723211281-CN2MCE0EBH3VRG8WCPWZ/OCA_Website_doggerfisher4.jpg doggerfisher, Edinburgh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723214108-R7W7BHGX7IIBNEU15KOU/OCA_Website_doggerfisher5.jpg doggerfisher, Edinburgh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723215780-IRDE063MXBRD2US3PYL9/OCA_Website_doggerfisher6.jpg doggerfisher, Edinburgh https://ocastudio.co.uk/bridge-8-outdoor-activity-centre-west-calder daily 0.75 2019-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723795895-4HJS759RI6MYY6D6NDUO/OCA_Website_Bridge+8+Outdoor+Activity+Centre%2C+West+Calder.jpg Bridge 8 Outdoor Activity Centre, West Calder - Bridge 8 Outdoor Activity Centre, West Calder Bridge 8 is a Social Enterprise Group which created Edinburgh's first canal-based outdoor activity centre, and provides activities such as canoeing, kayaking, archery, climbing and mountain-biking from their base by the Union Canal at West Calder. Oliver Chapman Architects were appointed by Bridge 8 to develop a site-wide regeneration strategy alongside Harrison Stevens Landscape Architects, and to improve facilities to enhance visitor capacity and accessibility. These proposals involve flexible off-site construction techniques to accommodate the evolving needs of the centre as it continues to grow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723795895-4HJS759RI6MYY6D6NDUO/OCA_Website_Bridge+8+Outdoor+Activity+Centre%2C+West+Calder.jpg Bridge 8 Outdoor Activity Centre, West Calder - Bridge 8 Outdoor Activity Centre, West Calder Bridge 8 is a Social Enterprise Group which created Edinburgh's first canal-based outdoor activity centre, and provides activities such as canoeing, kayaking, archery, climbing and mountain-biking from their base by the Union Canal at West Calder. Oliver Chapman Architects were appointed by Bridge 8 to develop a site-wide regeneration strategy alongside Harrison Stevens Landscape Architects, and to improve facilities to enhance visitor capacity and accessibility. These proposals involve flexible off-site construction techniques to accommodate the evolving needs of the centre as it continues to grow. https://ocastudio.co.uk/bed-box daily 0.75 2019-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723123807-AP06KMVCQ3Z3SCI6JVWK/OCA_Website_Bed+Box.jpg Bed Box - Bed Box Our clients wanted to use first floor reception room as a guest bedroom, but also wanted additional private living space. The challenge was to find a design that allowed both functions within the same room. Rather than accept the convention of fitting wardrobes around the perimeter of the room, we proposed combining the function of storage with the bed itself. On entering the room this oak veneered ‘bed box’ appears to be a solid object. It contains the bed with three large steps up to the mattress and storage to hide the detritus of the bedroom. The rest of the room is used as a living room with a sofa, piano, fireplace and television. A special space is reserved in the bed box for a seat with hidden shelves similar to a ‘Shetland chair’. These chairs are generally made of timber and have deep side panels stretching up to support a shelf pocket above the sitter’s head where the family bible was traditionally stored. Edinburgh Architectural Association Award 2002 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723123807-AP06KMVCQ3Z3SCI6JVWK/OCA_Website_Bed+Box.jpg Bed Box - Bed Box Our clients wanted to use first floor reception room as a guest bedroom, but also wanted additional private living space. The challenge was to find a design that allowed both functions within the same room. Rather than accept the convention of fitting wardrobes around the perimeter of the room, we proposed combining the function of storage with the bed itself. On entering the room this oak veneered ‘bed box’ appears to be a solid object. It contains the bed with three large steps up to the mattress and storage to hide the detritus of the bedroom. The rest of the room is used as a living room with a sofa, piano, fireplace and television. A special space is reserved in the bed box for a seat with hidden shelves similar to a ‘Shetland chair’. These chairs are generally made of timber and have deep side panels stretching up to support a shelf pocket above the sitter’s head where the family bible was traditionally stored. Edinburgh Architectural Association Award 2002 https://ocastudio.co.uk/affordable-housing-swinton daily 0.75 2019-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723631041-IJ87SGJVLQ37XUW8MJRN/OCA_Website_Affordable+Housing%2C+Swinton.jpg Affordable Housing, Swinton - Affordable Housing, Swinton This prototypical pair of three bedroom semi-detached houses has been designed and built in Swinton, for Berwickshire Housing Association. The houses set out to raise the standards of sustainable design in residential developments. Energy conservation methods employed include the collection of solar energy through a whole house ventilation and water heating system, glazed sunspaces and eventually wind energy via small individual turbines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723631041-IJ87SGJVLQ37XUW8MJRN/OCA_Website_Affordable+Housing%2C+Swinton.jpg Affordable Housing, Swinton - Affordable Housing, Swinton This prototypical pair of three bedroom semi-detached houses has been designed and built in Swinton, for Berwickshire Housing Association. The houses set out to raise the standards of sustainable design in residential developments. Energy conservation methods employed include the collection of solar energy through a whole house ventilation and water heating system, glazed sunspaces and eventually wind energy via small individual turbines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723647757-W1C1PILBLTNRLAXL6PG5/OCA_Website_Affordable+Housing%2C+Swinton2.jpg Affordable Housing, Swinton The construction is lightweight and quick to erect. Well insulated breathable timber frame walls are clad in cement fibre slates and timber boarding. The appearance of a simple, archetypal form of a house has been achieved by detailing flush junctions between walls and roof pitches, recessed rainwater downpipes and discreet details to conceal cavity barriers. Scottish Design Awards 2006 Best Affordable Housing Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723650109-6SJEVNXC1NSS7CNFDH0Y/OCA_Website_Affordable+Housing%2C+Swinton3.jpg Affordable Housing, Swinton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723658246-TUTFYI0LY6M4CQBVOSLB/OCA_Website_Affordable+Housing%2C+Swinton4.jpg Affordable Housing, Swinton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723663492-057HZHS9YRUW8NTS3HOY/OCA_Website_Affordable+Housing%2C+Swinton5.jpg Affordable Housing, Swinton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723666666-BEUAXD23P07EACGROU0O/OCA_Website_Affordable+Housing%2C+Swinton6.jpg Affordable Housing, Swinton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723668472-90JGVYXXFAVRG18666V4/OCA_Website_Affordable+Housing%2C+Swinton7.jpg Affordable Housing, Swinton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723673269-5LOMBM7137L0OEYESX68/OCA_Website_Affordable+Housing%2C+Swinton8.jpg Affordable Housing, Swinton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565723670685-3E0S9GYLMICTHR636RNB/OCA_Website_Affordable+Housing%2C+Swinton9.jpg Affordable Housing, Swinton https://ocastudio.co.uk/merchiston-apartments-edinburgh daily 0.75 2019-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565722694044-LNZ6PQERZ2MP6UXOFEBS/OCA_Website_Merchiston+Apartments%2C+Edinburgh.jpg Merchiston Apartments, Edinburgh - Merchiston Apartments, Edinburgh This plot in Merchiston, a leafy Victorian district of Edinburgh, was originally intended for a large villa similar in scale to those to the North of the property, however, it was instead bought as a gardens for the substantial house to the south. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565722694044-LNZ6PQERZ2MP6UXOFEBS/OCA_Website_Merchiston+Apartments%2C+Edinburgh.jpg Merchiston Apartments, Edinburgh - Merchiston Apartments, Edinburgh This plot in Merchiston, a leafy Victorian district of Edinburgh, was originally intended for a large villa similar in scale to those to the North of the property, however, it was instead bought as a gardens for the substantial house to the south. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565722715530-HVT484MUAZHY0JM7MZTB/OCA_Website_Merchiston+Apartments%2C+Edinburgh2.jpg Merchiston Apartments, Edinburgh Villas on the scale of the Victorians rarely get built as single dwellings any more. Instead, a form for multiple apartments had to be found that matched 'villa scale'. This raised the question whether the outward expression of a modern mini apartment building in this particular conservation area context should conceal itself as if it were a building in single ownership, or whether it should express its identity as consisting of multiple dwellings. We chose the latter, and ensured that the form would visually indicate its division into three apartments on each level. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565722735672-K2UK4UHKZ1YK89ZE0BNE/OCA_Website_Merchiston+Apartments%2C+Edinburgh3.jpg Merchiston Apartments, Edinburgh Garden surrounds the perimeter of the apartment building, with parking kept entirely outwith the original victorian plot. This avoids the common compromise of cars parked next to ground floor windows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565722740430-DBM17UIIGCU6ECWH1URB/OCA_Website_Merchiston+Apartments%2C+Edinburgh4.jpg Merchiston Apartments, Edinburgh Throughout the project we explored our architectural interest in simple forms which have recessed spaces hollowed from them. The corner terraces recede behind the building's envelope to form pockets of private space. Scottish Design Awards 2015 Finalist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565722743950-VU8JYKJD3DUH646I4T71/OCA_Website_Merchiston+Apartments%2C+Edinburgh5.jpg Merchiston Apartments, Edinburgh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565722748589-P2GLQ8VI1W7V7A69OF43/OCA_Website_Merchiston+Apartments%2C+Edinburgh6.jpg Merchiston Apartments, Edinburgh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565722750604-7KYW9Q3IRPVLS1CAO1Q7/OCA_Website_Merchiston+Apartments%2C+Edinburgh7.jpg Merchiston Apartments, Edinburgh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565722752216-CJGZN42U14ONCFFLY7IP/OCA_Website_Merchiston+Apartments%2C+Edinburgh8.jpg Merchiston Apartments, Edinburgh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565722756672-STLUXRCUMBBGAX0LUHYA/OCA_Website_Merchiston+Apartments%2C+Edinburgh9.jpg Merchiston Apartments, Edinburgh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565722759266-GRFIPTC568Q94IMO316C/OCA_Website_Merchiston+Apartments%2C+Edinburgh10.jpg Merchiston Apartments, Edinburgh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565722762367-OGQYZC7ZC4G4E0XBZC5F/OCA_Website_Merchiston+Apartments%2C+Edinburgh11.jpg Merchiston Apartments, Edinburgh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565722763439-3O54M6RKNX9AOJVCDXCX/OCA_Website_Merchiston+Apartments%2C+Edinburgh12.jpg Merchiston Apartments, Edinburgh https://ocastudio.co.uk/gunsgreenhill-affordable-housing-eyemouth daily 0.75 2019-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565722815523-RJKJYL4QT5NBVKK92215/OCA_Website_Gunsgreenhill+Affordable+Housing%2C+Eyemouth.jpg Gunsgreenhill Affordable Housing, Eyemouth - Gunsgreenhill Affordable Housing, Eyemouth This development of nine new family houses commissioned by Berwickshire Housing Association was aimed at younger couples with one or two children, and was constructed on a sloped site overlooking Eyemouth. Our design strategy was to utilise the existing site topography through a series of landscaped terraces to the front of the houses to maximise green-space, privacy and views towards the sea. A rhythm of single and double glazed entrances creates a variety of shared and individual spaces along the south west elevation promoting sociability and relate to an adjacent childrens' playpark. These glazed entrances illuminate a stairwell and study area with south light and are animated by coloured glazing providing each unit with its own identity. The archetypal form of the house is maintained but its profile abstracted through flush detailing and a monochrome play of light and dark render. RIBA Award 2009 Shortlist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1565722815523-RJKJYL4QT5NBVKK92215/OCA_Website_Gunsgreenhill+Affordable+Housing%2C+Eyemouth.jpg Gunsgreenhill Affordable Housing, Eyemouth - Gunsgreenhill Affordable Housing, Eyemouth This development of nine new family houses commissioned by Berwickshire Housing Association was aimed at younger couples with one or two children, and was constructed on a sloped site overlooking Eyemouth. Our design strategy was to utilise the existing site topography through a series of landscaped terraces to the front of the houses to maximise green-space, privacy and views towards the sea. A rhythm of single and double glazed entrances creates a variety of shared and individual spaces along the south west elevation promoting sociability and relate to an adjacent childrens' playpark. These glazed entrances illuminate a stairwell and study area with south light and are animated by coloured glazing providing each unit with its own identity. The archetypal form of the house is maintained but its profile abstracted through flush detailing and a monochrome play of light and dark render. RIBA Award 2009 Shortlist https://ocastudio.co.uk/midsteeple-quarter-dumfries daily 0.75 2020-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1579774425098-ARWTOI0Z3YQJQ2CU1WCI/OCA_Website_Midsteeple+Quarter+Dumfries.jpg Midsteeple Quarter, Dumfries https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1579015304337-YZNPD5J4L4D0FWJ5TP2R/OCA_Website_Midsteeple+Quarter+Dumfries.jpg Midsteeple Quarter, Dumfries https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1579020534739-T8W56Y3S799CZO0PNRRZ/image-asset.jpeg Midsteeple Quarter, Dumfries - Midsteeple Quarter, Dumfries OCA have been working with the Midsteeple Quarter, a community-led organisation in Dumfries. The project is an effort to reimagine the urban core and bring people back into the town centre, aiming to combat the economic decline which Dumfries has suffered in recent years. This study looks ahead and imagines a future phase in which two vacant plots on the High Street could be redeveloped into mixed community, commercial, and residential uses. Design & visualisations created in collaboration with Michael Collins Architect https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1579020564477-166BJZE7JG26PQ11X76M/image-asset.jpeg Midsteeple Quarter, Dumfries https://ocastudio.co.uk/craigmarloch-stables daily 0.75 2020-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1579020606830-NALJKMGXB5DJ7BSQ3TKX/image-asset.jpeg Craigmarloch Stables - Craigmarloch Stables Working with North Lanarkshire Council and Scottish Canals, OCA have been exploring options for the historic Craigmarloch Stables near Kilsyth. The stables were built in the early 19th century as a staging post for the teams of horses that pulled the swift passenger boats along the Forth & Clyde Canal. Since the birth of rail travel and the decline of the waterways, the building has fallen into disuse and ruin, and is now a shell with no roof. We have been considering ideas on how this historic building can be brought back to life through renovation and re-use, and how an area that was historically a hub of activity on the canal can be revitalised. Two community workshops were held in January 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1579020606830-NALJKMGXB5DJ7BSQ3TKX/image-asset.jpeg Craigmarloch Stables - Craigmarloch Stables Working with North Lanarkshire Council and Scottish Canals, OCA have been exploring options for the historic Craigmarloch Stables near Kilsyth. The stables were built in the early 19th century as a staging post for the teams of horses that pulled the swift passenger boats along the Forth & Clyde Canal. Since the birth of rail travel and the decline of the waterways, the building has fallen into disuse and ruin, and is now a shell with no roof. We have been considering ideas on how this historic building can be brought back to life through renovation and re-use, and how an area that was historically a hub of activity on the canal can be revitalised. Two community workshops were held in January 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1579020648331-EUXQFNGR7ZANJ97U8DJK/OCA_Website_Craigmarloch+Stables2.jpg Craigmarloch Stables https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1579020700985-NYS2ETQX6WLR8TUAPNK6/OCA_Website_Craigmarloch+Stables4.jpg Craigmarloch Stables https://ocastudio.co.uk/sighthill-enterprise-wharf-glasgow daily 0.75 2020-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1579022318179-FWLC50GXMKISNJQDE2NF/OCA_Website_Sighthill+Enterprise+Wharf+Glasgow.jpg Sighthill Enterprise Wharf, Glasgow - Sighthill Enterprise Wharf, Glasgow Sighthill Enterprise Wharf, to the north of Glasgow’s city centre, will provide low cost office spaces for social enterprises and start-up businesses, as well as facilities for the existing and growing communities of Sighthill and Port Dundas. The wider scheme will also create a much improved public realm along the canal linking to nearby residential developments. The project was commissioned by Scottish Canals and was granted Planning Permission in Autumn 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1579022318179-FWLC50GXMKISNJQDE2NF/OCA_Website_Sighthill+Enterprise+Wharf+Glasgow.jpg Sighthill Enterprise Wharf, Glasgow - Sighthill Enterprise Wharf, Glasgow Sighthill Enterprise Wharf, to the north of Glasgow’s city centre, will provide low cost office spaces for social enterprises and start-up businesses, as well as facilities for the existing and growing communities of Sighthill and Port Dundas. The wider scheme will also create a much improved public realm along the canal linking to nearby residential developments. The project was commissioned by Scottish Canals and was granted Planning Permission in Autumn 2019. https://ocastudio.co.uk/ellisland daily 0.75 2024-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1718968882499-ZZ5OUGZP973O6G197O1B/OCA_Website_70013.jpg Robert Burns Ellisland Farm OCA Studio were appointed by the Robert Burns Ellisland Trust to undertake an architectural options appraisal for the conservation and future use of Ellisland Farm in Dumfries and Galloway. The Category A-listed farmstead was built by the Scots poet Robert Burns, and is where he lived, worked, and wrote some of his most famous works, including Tam O'Shanter and Auld Lang Syne. Our feasibility project looks to restore and conserve the existing farm buildings, and create a new visitor centre to interpret Burns' life and work at Ellisland, and display the key items of the Ellisland Farm collection in a secure and environmentally-suitable purpose-built space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1718968882499-ZZ5OUGZP973O6G197O1B/OCA_Website_70013.jpg Robert Burns Ellisland Farm OCA Studio were appointed by the Robert Burns Ellisland Trust to undertake an architectural options appraisal for the conservation and future use of Ellisland Farm in Dumfries and Galloway. The Category A-listed farmstead was built by the Scots poet Robert Burns, and is where he lived, worked, and wrote some of his most famous works, including Tam O'Shanter and Auld Lang Syne. Our feasibility project looks to restore and conserve the existing farm buildings, and create a new visitor centre to interpret Burns' life and work at Ellisland, and display the key items of the Ellisland Farm collection in a secure and environmentally-suitable purpose-built space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1718968891456-ETXXX7E8NAM5RZ861UPA/OCA_Website_70014.jpg Robert Burns Ellisland Farm The new visitor centre adds a further courtyard to the existing sequence of sheltered outdoor spaces; farmyard, cattle courtyard, kitchen garden and orchard. The paddock becomes an open space buffer separating the new visitor centre from the farmyard, and allows the appearance of the existing cluster of heritage buildings to be conserved. The new courtyard is a gathering space with a sunny aspect, a terrace with outdoor seating for the new cafe, and a supervised playspace for children, from which the farmyard and its key buildings are all visible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1718968921618-QKXJIXGB1ZU2IIDJOAKB/OCA_Website_70017.jpg Robert Burns Ellisland Farm Mirroring the form of Burns’ original steading, the visitor centre has a ‘U’-shaped plan, with the fully- accessible ground floor predominantly for public use. Large rooflights at the corners of the form indicate the arrangement of gaps between buildings seen throughout Ellisland, and bring natural light into the deeper areas of the floorplan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1732732863715-Z5UUXN6CCMPVP1O2CJB6/OCA_Website_7001.jpg Robert Burns Ellisland Farm Part of the vision for Ellisland is to lead the demonstration of a revived focus on using low embodied energy materials, that are part of a fledgling local circular economy. The visitor centre will eschew generic interior finishes, working instead with the principle of revealing the building’s construction to its interior, providing an enriched tactility as well as enhanced visual and acoustic qualities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1718968937548-ABSQVSOAZ27IGIN5PBTV/OCA_Website_70018.jpg Robert Burns Ellisland Farm The proposals for the existing steading are based on the principle of ‘conservation through use’; creating necessary and appropriate adaptations to the existing fabric that will allow the buildings to be used for a variety of purposes to support the Trust’s aspiration to deliver high quality cultural, educational, environmental and wellbeing activities, and to allow new audiences to engage with the work and life of Robert Burns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1718968888844-UO0NV5ISTH5YV8F6UCBU/OCA_Website_70012.jpg Robert Burns Ellisland Farm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1718968929247-42XBXRJ67595EOZF4IK9/OCA_Website_70016.jpg Robert Burns Ellisland Farm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1718968914313-I6TMQDTHM7JDOVBLUQAA/OCA_Website_70015.jpg Robert Burns Ellisland Farm https://ocastudio.co.uk/new-index-2 daily 0.75 2025-01-15 https://ocastudio.co.uk/trinity-garden-room daily 0.75 2025-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1728578603522-BKA6NK1Z0UP5NAE49NWH/image-asset.jpeg Trinity Garden Room This late 19th-century semi-detached property in the leafy Trinity suburb of Edinburgh benefits from an extensive garden to the rear, however - as can often be the case with Victorian villas - access between the house and its garden was cramped and circuitous. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1728578603522-BKA6NK1Z0UP5NAE49NWH/image-asset.jpeg Trinity Garden Room This late 19th-century semi-detached property in the leafy Trinity suburb of Edinburgh benefits from an extensive garden to the rear, however - as can often be the case with Victorian villas - access between the house and its garden was cramped and circuitous. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1728578676030-UZSI4NO60Y3X9VZ2VCK0/OCA_Website_5802.jpg Trinity Garden Room The rear of the property featured an unusual arrangement, consisting of a functional ‘annex’ to the ground floor housing the kitchen and utility areas, with a generous bay window above giving views across the garden out to the Firth of Forth from the first floor. The focus of the project was to connect the living spaces at ground floor level with the garden beyond, and afford the same generosity of light and openness to the modern ground floor living spaces as benefits the rooms above. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1728578685276-BR0G2QX2EFCUEDY25VI3/OCA_Website_5804.jpg Trinity Garden Room Conceived of as an open, pergola-like structure between the solid masonry villa and its garden, the single storey annex was remodelled and extended to create a new garden room with direct access to the outdoors. Maintaining the existing datum set by the annex, the new intervention is clad in Scottish larch, which will naturally weather to complement the grey tones of the existing masonry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1728578680236-21BV7BBF0BYG464IGXAV/OCA_Website_5803.jpg Trinity Garden Room The external timber fins sit on a plinth of reclaimed masonry from on-site downtakings, reducing construction waste and helping to embed the contemporary elements of the design within their historical context. A carefully-detailed masonry planter has been incorporated into the design, allowing foliage to sit right against the new full-height glazing, and blurring the transition between inside and out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1728578781568-0A97809NZ4UCEBCNHJ1D/OCA_Website_5805.jpg Trinity Garden Room https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1728578712490-QU28BU81AZNEZ2IBC0FZ/OCA_Website_5806.jpg Trinity Garden Room https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1728578717171-AHQ9W5RTVT6LKWT9QG98/OCA_Website_5807.jpg Trinity Garden Room https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1728578720209-O4HUJIXA9X5MIBOO26O6/OCA_Website_5808.jpg Trinity Garden Room https://ocastudio.co.uk/old-church-depot-moffat daily 0.75 2024-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1732623545763-FQQ8M9DOD2HU30HOZUWL/OCA_Website_674.jpg Old Church Depot Moffat OCA Studio have been working with local charity Space to Grow Moffat to convert this former free church building into creative workspaces for community use. The proposals include the construction of a new single-storey extension which helps to form a welcoming and sheltered external courtyard, enlivening the reinstated main entrance. The steeple was removed and former entrance infilled when the church was deconsecrated in the late 19th century, and it is proposed to crown the remaining base with a new scalloped lantern, subtly referencing the arched window details of the existing building without appearing overtly ecclesiastical. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1732623545763-FQQ8M9DOD2HU30HOZUWL/OCA_Website_674.jpg Old Church Depot Moffat OCA Studio have been working with local charity Space to Grow Moffat to convert this former free church building into creative workspaces for community use. The proposals include the construction of a new single-storey extension which helps to form a welcoming and sheltered external courtyard, enlivening the reinstated main entrance. The steeple was removed and former entrance infilled when the church was deconsecrated in the late 19th century, and it is proposed to crown the remaining base with a new scalloped lantern, subtly referencing the arched window details of the existing building without appearing overtly ecclesiastical. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1732623544856-1J20EOUMM7M7CPQW5UZB/OCA_Website_6742.jpg Old Church Depot Moffat A programme of repairs and enhancements to the existing fabric will both conserve the existing church building while simultaneously ensuring its suitability for its new function. The existing masonry building will house larger workshop units on the ground floor alongside a community meeting room and facilities, while the first floor will host an open-plan community co-working space. External landscaping works will enhance the existing public access route to the east of the building, and provide new linkages with the community allotments to the south-west. https://ocastudio.co.uk/st-monans-auld-kirk daily 0.75 2024-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1732623599737-LFQJHPNXBACLN6VSHHQI/OCA_Website_716.jpg St Monans Auld Kirk One of the oldest churches in Scotland, St Monans Auld Kirk is a significant and stunning historic building in the East Neuk of Fife. Following news of the upcoming sale of the building, OCA Studio are working with local community organisation St Monans Auld Kirk Enterprise, supported by Fife Historic Buildings Trust, to assist in their aim to acquire and manage the Auld Kirk for the benefit of the community of St Monans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1732623599737-LFQJHPNXBACLN6VSHHQI/OCA_Website_716.jpg St Monans Auld Kirk One of the oldest churches in Scotland, St Monans Auld Kirk is a significant and stunning historic building in the East Neuk of Fife. Following news of the upcoming sale of the building, OCA Studio are working with local community organisation St Monans Auld Kirk Enterprise, supported by Fife Historic Buildings Trust, to assist in their aim to acquire and manage the Auld Kirk for the benefit of the community of St Monans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1732623599937-8R66LKWLQMTUKDC0MPL7/OCA_Website_7162.jpg St Monans Auld Kirk Proposals for the Auld Kirk centre around enabling its continued use as a space for village celebrations, including the crowning of the St Monans Sea Queen, as well as for individuals to celebrate important life events. Interventions in the main space of the building are primarily limited to fabric repairs and conservation work, however, a carefully-crafted furniture piece tucked into the north transept is proposed to house a flexible kitchen and bar space which will support the provision of these and other events, as well as allowing the space to function as a community cafe. The former entrance to the west will be reopened with new glazing, connecting the interior of the Kirk to its surroundings and allowing it to benefit from views out to the coast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1732623604242-PFWKRHIYDIMIT8ANQSU2/OCA_Website_7163.jpg St Monans Auld Kirk A small early 20th century vestry to the north of the building is proposed to be remodelled to create a wider, more welcoming and accessible entrance that will assist with wayfinding for visitors. The new entrance structure is clad externally in recycled oxidised copper, tying in with the warm sandstone of the Kirk. A splayed surround to the new glazed entrance door helps to draw people into the building, and is lined in warm Scottish larch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5389f735e4b0ffc423d598df/1732623603734-7BBNBOFWI5QB3ZBRACR7/OCA_Website_7164.jpg St Monans Auld Kirk The proposals for the Auld Kirk are designed to have a low visual impact on the main space and exterior of the Kirk, while providing the facility and flexibility required to support its ongoing operation. 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