TEST UNIT 2016

A Prototype Public Space

Agile City • Bairds Brae - 2016 • Occupation • Unit Facilitator: Lee Ivett

Test Unit is an architecture, design and art summer school and event programme. The project aims to prototype ideas in public space to inform urban development, to build capacity for participants to initiate future grass-roots project, and to place culture, people and education at the heart of an area going through significant change.

OCCUPATION | GROUP PROJECT

Bairds Brae creates a unique opportunity to revisit some of the fundamental contextual principles of human settlement as a means of creating community and ultimately public space. The group examined these conditions and design, develop and prototype an intervention that could support human occupation of the site at the scale of the individual but with the possibility of replication. The project responded to the old ‘Basin House Tavern’ that used to occupy the site during the 1800’s.

MICRO-INN | OUTCOME

The project developed was titled ‘Nettle Inn’ - responding to the old ‘Basin House Tavern’ that used to occupy the site in the 1800s, which also contained a brewery and acted as social hub for people working on the canal on this key intersection site. The concept of the groups design was a ‘micro-inn’ - incorporating all the components of a tavern: service ‘bar’ protruding through the wall to engage passers by on the canal path, preparation area for food and drinks and a sleeping area above with views over the canal.

For more information, please visit the links below:

Test Unit 2016 - https://agile-city.com/test-unit/2016-baird-brae/

Occupation Unit - https://agile-city.com/test-unit/units/occupation/