Weekly overview
This week I have been working on a partial physical model based on my understanding of last week’s course on building structures. This week’s research was focused around the history of the site, the surrounding residents and the site drawings. I have sent emails to the architectural and interior design firms involved in the site awaiting a response.
Primary and secondary structure
Model making – Ground flood
Making process
Details
The building model for the ground floor section was completed in this stages.
Site information
Relevant drawings of Cargo, the first retail store in my site.
Area history
The canal
The canal’s trade was relatively short lived as the railway between Edinburgh and Glasgow opened in 1842 and passenger services on the canal ceased by 1848. Commercial trade continued but by 1920 the canal was no longer used and infilling began at Edinburgh in 1921 followed by culverting sections for road and house building. It was officially closed as a waterway in 1965.
The Union Canal and Forth & Clyde canals were reopened between 2000 and 2001 through the £84.5m Millennium Link Project, which was the largest canal restoration in the UK at the time. The Falkirk Wheel is the 21st century new beginning and end of the Union Canal.
https://unioncanalunlocked.org.uk/edinburgh-quay.php
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