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Audience and community engagement will be transformed by the porosity of the space both through the physical and virtual domain. This will be a building with convening power it will attract influential figures who will collaborate with the GSA on a range of business, research and enterprise and community-led initiatives. The project should not only be a sensitive response to the Mackintosh Building, but an exemplar of sustainability and a demonstrator project for world-leading place-based, co-designed, community regeneration. The GSA believes that the Mackintosh Project has the potential to be a catalyst for the social and economic regeneration of Garnethill and the surrounding commercial areas вЂ“ in particular Sauchiehall Street. It will provide the GSA with a singular opportunity to interrogate emerging and traditional forms of practice, creative innovation and production within a world leading environment, enabling the school to develop and extend partnerships across the globe. While retaining an unequalled approach to creative enquiry, craft and making, the new facility will provide a rare opportunity to bring together the strengths of the GSA, providing both the physical and virtual interrogation of materials, artefacts and ideas. Having digital and sustainability at the heart of the offer will provide a new and compelling opportunity for the GSA.

The building will be enabled by state-of-the-art digital capabilities, it will be designed and developed using the latest sustainable technologies. This option also takes account of being compliant with the latest building regulations. Iconic spaces, such as the library, board room, directorвЂ™s office, Mackintosh Room, lecture theatre, Studio 58, the Hen Run, loggia, museum and Studio 11 will be reinstated together with all the other spaces including studios. The existing external walls will be supported by a new temporary facade retention structure, if necessary, to allow the construction of a new internal frame which the external walls will be tied back into to create a new solid structure. This includes the re-use of the existing foundations and remaining stone/masonry external walls and remaining internal walls and floors where possible.

Chief architect mac full#

The GSA has now begun a detailed analysis of its preferred option including costings.Д¬omprises a full reinstatement of the Mackintosh Building including retained/re-use of the remaining structure. вЂњThe case for a landmark development that not only reinstates, but builds on, the illustrious heritage of the original Mackintosh building is overwhelming.вЂќ вЂњThrough extensive consultation and robust economic analysis, the SOBC demonstrated that the best option is to undertake a faithful reinstatement within the practical constraints of the regulatory environment, while innovating to make sure that digital technology and sustainability are at the buildingвЂ™s heart,вЂќ the GSA said in a statement issued this morning. The options examined during the strategic outline business case (SOBC) process included demolishing the remaining structure to make way for an entirely new building, moving the school to a new site and a hybrid model. Reinstating Charles Rennie MackintoshвЂ™s grade A-listed art college is the universityвЂ™s preferred choice, it said today, after a comprehensive examination of all the options commissioned just before the pandemic last year. The Glasgow School of Art has announced it plans to вЂњfaithfully rebuildвЂќ the Mackintosh Building which was twice destroyed by fire. Construction business: Strategy, risk and regulationsДebris cleared from within the Mackintosh Building.