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Primrose Terrace
The development strategy proposes the removal of the existing industrial buildings along the Eastern side of Primrose Terrace. A new street frontage is proposed, taking its height and massing from the existing tenement adjacent, connecting Slateford Road to Harrison Place, Park and Gardens.
In removing the existing industrial warehousing, the distance between buildings on either side of the new street will be doubled, enhancing amenity, bringing in more daylight and opening distant vistas. The new tree line avenue will provide a generous, broad promenade on its eastern side. Visitor parking will be absorbed, discretely nestling between trees.
The elevational treatment will provide a repetitive, modest and calm background to this enhanced green streetscape. The gentle rhythm of window and masonry, solid and void will be drawn from a simple and elegant proportion of window and masonry panel with dappled shadow from afternoon and evening sunlight filtering through the trees to animate and enliven a deliberately restrained facade. The street frontage of four storey masonry, will horizontal banding, presents a contemporary interpretation of the existing tenement form. Height and proportion are borrowed from the neighbouring context. The existing tenement ridgeline is continued (following the existing consent previously granted) and echoes the traditional juxtaposition of tenement and Colony as per Merchiston Grove to the west. The inhabited timber clad roofspace at the top most storey, with glazed projecting bays, animates the roofscape and ridgeline and echoes dormers and bays on the streetside opposite.
The southern tip of Primrose Terrace will flourish into a modest landscaped public realm, with entrance to the semi private courtyard and connection onwards to the Railway Walkway, Harrison Place and Harrison Park beyond.
Primrose Terrace
The development strategy proposes the removal of the existing industrial buildings along the Eastern side of Primrose Terrace. A new street frontage is proposed, taking its height and massing from the existing tenement adjacent, connecting Slateford Road to Harrison Place, Park and Gardens.
In removing the existing industrial warehousing, the distance between buildings on either side of the new street will be doubled, enhancing amenity, bringing in more daylight and opening distant vistas. The new tree line avenue will provide a generous, broad promenade on its eastern side. Visitor parking will be absorbed, discretely nestling between trees.
The elevational treatment will provide a repetitive, modest and calm background to this enhanced green streetscape. The gentle rhythm of window and masonry, solid and void will be drawn from a simple and elegant proportion of window and masonry panel with dappled shadow from afternoon and evening sunlight filtering through the trees to animate and enliven a deliberately restrained facade. The street frontage of four storey masonry, will horizontal banding, presents a contemporary interpretation of the existing tenement form. Height and proportion are borrowed from the neighbouring context. The existing tenement ridgeline is continued (following the existing consent previously granted) and echoes the traditional juxtaposition of tenement and Colony as per Merchiston Grove to the west. The inhabited timber clad roofspace at the top most storey, with glazed projecting bays, animates the roofscape and ridgeline and echoes dormers and bays on the streetside opposite.
The southern tip of Primrose Terrace will flourish into a modest landscaped public realm, with entrance to the semi private courtyard and connection onwards to the Railway Walkway, Harrison Place and Harrison Park beyond.
No 1 Slateford Road
The overall strategy proposes to infill and complete the existing and truncated tenement block (No1 to No37) fronting Slateford Road. No1 Slateford Road occupies the easternmost tenement plot turning the corner from Slateford Road into Violet Terrace. Its unique situations addresses both the frontality of the Street with northerly views across the cemetery, together with easterly views towards St Michael's Parish Church and onwards to the heart of the City. The eastern gable presents a particularly prominent focal point within the wider city context as a visual marker on the westerly departure from the City Centre. On a local scale, the eastern gable had the potential to reciprocate and relate with the prominent tower of St Michael's Parish Church.
The current site condition visually presents an unintended "internal" party wall with a covering of external render to better weather its temporary exposure. The proposed building will initially take its form and massing directly from this existing gable, broadening and rising slightly in response to the turning of the corner and address the consequent elevational "frontality" appropriates for such a visible gable.
The site strategy proposed a mixed use building echoing the existing adjacent tenement topology of residential apartments above ground floor retail and trade uses. The ground floor will primarly contain a commercial unit with potentially three frontages - to Slateford Road, to Violet Terace and to the rear courtyard. Retaining an element of commercial usage with the development site has been requested by CEC Planning and this proposal provides a footprint of the the required size ideally located to contribute to and benefit from an animated streetscape, visible and accessible to all.
The shared entrance to the 7 residential apartments above is located on the Slateford Road frontage. In massing, the commercial unit acts as a podium which consequently serves as a south facing roof terrace to the apartment above. The first floor gable apartment is elevated to read as 'gap' between the podium and the 3 storey corner of apartments above. Windows in these apartments are displaced to articulate the corner and inter rotation of building frontage from norht to east as the elevation rises and rotates from street frontage to city frontage.
The fourth floor elevation utilises a broader horizontal opening along the full breadth of the eastern gable to emphasise the visual connection with the distant city and to infer an inhabited and occupied roofspace. Vertical inset timber cladding unifies the range of windows and counterpoints the horizontal opening.
The south facing rear courtyard elevation relates to the adjacent tenement gable and is punctuated with discrete and inset terracing to embrace the southerly aspect. The massing gradually descends through the terraces to the first floor terraces, stretching out towards the sourthern and evening sun.
Cycle Track Building
The southern edge of the development site fronts the redundant railway line, now reconfigured as a broad recreational walk and cycle path.
The development proposes a flank of residential accommodation in a bold linear form running parallel to this tree lined walkway. A string of residential apartments will be accessed from a series of communal terraces to the north with individual and private living spaces to the south. The elevation to the southerly, public frontage will fully consist of inhabited terraces and balconies, green pockets of dwelling adjacent the existing green and linear natural habitat. Terraces and balconies serve a fixed and regular backdrop to the ever changing treescape and seasons, with a palette of glass and filigree timber panelling, full of activity, animation and habitation. Beneath the balconies and terraces, all ground floor apartments have private gardens fronting the railway edge.
The western end of the access terraces sees the corner stair rising externally between the gable of adjacent Primrose Terrace building. The stair and terraces protrude beyond building elevation above and into the residential building, gently animating the public realm. Screened from the public realm only by a transparent 'garden' gate, intriguing vistas are afforded through the private vertical circulation space and into the courtyard area beyond.
The public space at the foot of Primrose Terraces brings together potential connections north, south, east and west. The space between serves both as public interface and entrance court to the residential apartments and courtyard, ensuring that the space is appropriated and overlooked at all times. Modest in scale, located and oriented to benefit from any available sun, the space will provide a calm community and residential focal point.
Cycle Track elevation - Courtyard Building
The northerly elevation consists, in part, a series of communal, dynamic linear terraces affording access to all levels of apartments, drawing movement and life around and within the courtyard. A palette of balustrading and timber cladding counterpoints the mover masonary elevations.
The eastern gable has a simple repetive form and elevational articulation echoing the rear elevation of Primrose Terrace, presenting a palette, fenestration and massing that is cohesive throughout the rear courtyard environment. Proposed massing steps back, away from Harrison Road, with broad and generous roof terraces fronting the elevated road and railway bridge.
The overall strategy proposes to infill and complete the existing and truncated tenement block (No1 to No37) fronting Slateford Road. No1 Slateford Road occupies the easternmost tenement plot turning the corner from Slateford Road into Violet Terrace. Its unique situations addresses both the frontality of the Street with northerly views across the cemetery, together with easterly views towards St Michael's Parish Church and onwards to the heart of the City. The eastern gable presents a particularly prominent focal point within the wider city context as a visual marker on the westerly departure from the City Centre. On a local scale, the eastern gable had the potential to reciprocate and relate with the prominent tower of St Michael's Parish Church.
The current site condition visually presents an unintended "internal" party wall with a covering of external render to better weather its temporary exposure. The proposed building will initially take its form and massing directly from this existing gable, broadening and rising slightly in response to the turning of the corner and address the consequent elevational "frontality" appropriates for such a visible gable.
The site strategy proposed a mixed use building echoing the existing adjacent tenement topology of residential apartments above ground floor retail and trade uses. The ground floor will primarly contain a commercial unit with potentially three frontages - to Slateford Road, to Violet Terace and to the rear courtyard. Retaining an element of commercial usage with the development site has been requested by CEC Planning and this proposal provides a footprint of the the required size ideally located to contribute to and benefit from an animated streetscape, visible and accessible to all.
The shared entrance to the 7 residential apartments above is located on the Slateford Road frontage. In massing, the commercial unit acts as a podium which consequently serves as a south facing roof terrace to the apartment above. The first floor gable apartment is elevated to read as 'gap' between the podium and the 3 storey corner of apartments above. Windows in these apartments are displaced to articulate the corner and inter rotation of building frontage from norht to east as the elevation rises and rotates from street frontage to city frontage.
The fourth floor elevation utilises a broader horizontal opening along the full breadth of the eastern gable to emphasise the visual connection with the distant city and to infer an inhabited and occupied roofspace. Vertical inset timber cladding unifies the range of windows and counterpoints the horizontal opening.
The south facing rear courtyard elevation relates to the adjacent tenement gable and is punctuated with discrete and inset terracing to embrace the southerly aspect. The massing gradually descends through the terraces to the first floor terraces, stretching out towards the sourthern and evening sun.
Cycle Track Building
The southern edge of the development site fronts the redundant railway line, now reconfigured as a broad recreational walk and cycle path.
The development proposes a flank of residential accommodation in a bold linear form running parallel to this tree lined walkway. A string of residential apartments will be accessed from a series of communal terraces to the north with individual and private living spaces to the south. The elevation to the southerly, public frontage will fully consist of inhabited terraces and balconies, green pockets of dwelling adjacent the existing green and linear natural habitat. Terraces and balconies serve a fixed and regular backdrop to the ever changing treescape and seasons, with a palette of glass and filigree timber panelling, full of activity, animation and habitation. Beneath the balconies and terraces, all ground floor apartments have private gardens fronting the railway edge.
The western end of the access terraces sees the corner stair rising externally between the gable of adjacent Primrose Terrace building. The stair and terraces protrude beyond building elevation above and into the residential building, gently animating the public realm. Screened from the public realm only by a transparent 'garden' gate, intriguing vistas are afforded through the private vertical circulation space and into the courtyard area beyond.
The public space at the foot of Primrose Terraces brings together potential connections north, south, east and west. The space between serves both as public interface and entrance court to the residential apartments and courtyard, ensuring that the space is appropriated and overlooked at all times. Modest in scale, located and oriented to benefit from any available sun, the space will provide a calm community and residential focal point.
Cycle Track elevation - Courtyard Building
The northerly elevation consists, in part, a series of communal, dynamic linear terraces affording access to all levels of apartments, drawing movement and life around and within the courtyard. A palette of balustrading and timber cladding counterpoints the mover masonary elevations.
The eastern gable has a simple repetive form and elevational articulation echoing the rear elevation of Primrose Terrace, presenting a palette, fenestration and massing that is cohesive throughout the rear courtyard environment. Proposed massing steps back, away from Harrison Road, with broad and generous roof terraces fronting the elevated road and railway bridge.
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