Page Park and turn Clydebank heritage of shipbuilding to help new businesses

Page Park and turn Clydebank heritage of shipbuilding to help new businesses

Page architect and the park has recently completed the £ 3.3m Titan Enterprise Center at the Queen docks in Clydebank, near Glasgow, one of 2 250 m² offered by the development of new firms to strengthen the area of regeneration.

With Page and Park to produce a plan for the reclamation of 80 hectares on the Clyde in 2003, the Center for Titan mark his second project. Customer Clydebank Rebuilt, including a consortium Dumbartonshire Council and local businesses, wanted a three-storey and a half to provide more than 30 spaces for business creation and assembly services and reception areas.

Echoed in the field of shipbuilding and maritime heritage, the Titan is the north of copper plating. False unmarked slabs at each level, a ship hull seems to emerge. The roof above the increase in an arc in the eastern sector reinforces the impression that the ship. Wooden columns appear to support the hull, like the ships under construction have been maintained before its maiden voyage.

Inside, the maritime theme is reinforced with the construction of the ladder of industrial integration carrots Checker and steel plate exposed members, in an evocation of a ship in the engine room. In the far south, the coating material suggests a timber ship of the organization.

In line with the environmental strategy project, heating and air conditioning are "low-tech. Only the ground floor, meeting rooms are equipped with air conditioning, mechanical extract of office suites. Soffit concrete thermal mass, and very isolated part of wooden panels were chosen for the walls.

The Center for Titan also marks the final step in the reopening of the river Clyde, as a public space, and was placed to attract pedestrians near the coast, said Andrew Bateman of the page and the park.

With its strong symbolic of a ship embarking on the Clyde, the building is meant to evoke both memory and resist the nostalgia and isolation. "We wanted to have the legacy of the region, but for a particular purpose," he said.

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