February 9 2022

Backcourt workshops in Glasgow's North Kelvinside district have become the subject of developer interest with an application by Park Living to construct four linked mews properties.

Led by Atelier M and AM Architecture & Design the proposals concern a site off 157 Queen Margaret Drive, accessible only by an existing pend. Inspired by a flurry of rear court and lane development in the city, as seen at Overnewton Place, the applicant pledges to salvage original bricks and slates where possible and retain existing boundary walls.

Presenting a single storey light industrial brick aesthetic to the lane each terraced property will have access to a private courtyard overlooked by the double-height main living space clad in slate on the upper level. Each home will mirror the next save for a bookend home framing the row by turning 90 degrees.

Outlining the project goals Atelier M wrote: "It is the aspiration to create a residential development that will create a co-habitat spirit for the residents that will allow for demographic diversity and adaptability / flexility of the dwellings, whether it be for professionals, young families or middle-aged downsizer’s that want to live in the west end of the city with private and shared spaces for social interaction and to live in a development with sustainable and ecological considerations."

The homes are defined by a kitchen mezzanine floor housed within an outsize hip roof topped by a roof light to draw daylight deep into the plan and facilitate passive ventilation through the stair core.  

3 Comments

#1 Posted by Flashing lover on 10 Feb 2022 at 08:36 AM

Start populating those bad-boys with rainwater pipes and let’s see what it really looks like.

#2 Posted by Relentless Negativitiy on 10 Feb 2022 at 13:33 PM

If you had an infinite number of cadmonkeys, and an infinite amount of time, would they eventually type a positive comment on Urban Realm?

#3 Posted by Stop the waffle on 10 Feb 2022 at 22:40 PM

I give this a 86/100 on the toe-curling-cringe-ometer:

"It is the aspiration to create a residential development that will create a co-habitat spirit for the residents that will allow for demographic diversity and adaptability / flexility of the dwellings, whether it be for professionals, young families or middle-aged downsizer’s that want to live in the west end of the city with private and shared spaces for social interaction and to live in a development with sustainable and ecological considerations."

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