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grassmarket community project

Grassmarket Community Project

The need to provide another venue for the Edinburgh Festival served as the catalyst for the extension and refurbishment of the Grassmarket Community Project.

Max Fordham was appointed for mechanical and electrical services for the development. The need to sensitively integrate those services into the existing building form in a sympathetic manner was central to the brief.

The venue hosts performers throughout the year and also serves to extend educational facilities provided in the nearby, refurbished Kirkhouse.

Winner of the 2014 RIAS National Award.

Architect

Gareth Hoskins Architects

Value

£2m

Completion

2013

Client

Greyfriars Kirk

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Built on an infill site in central Edinburgh, the project is surrounded by existing buildings and the retaining wall of the Greyfriars Kirk graveyard
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The multi-purpose Community Hall has substantial audio-visual facilities, natural ventilation and daylight despite having access only through the roof
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The newly created front entrance is stepped away from the building line to form a new courtyard and articulates the connection between the original building and the extension
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The glazed entrance foyer provides a light and airy welcome; one that encourages visitors to quickly forget that the building is hemmed-in on all sides
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The signature rooflights provide natural light and air into the spaces below. They combine separate controlled daylight and ventilation within a single unit
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The rooflights, as viewed from the Greyfriars Kirk graveyard, show the sensitively expressed exhausts for air from the Community Hall and Hub below

Integrated electric roller shutters in the rooflights temper daylight into the volume below

Image: Gillian Hayes

Architect

Gareth Hoskins Architects

Value

£2m

Completion

2013

Client

Greyfriars Kirk