Interior Design School Review

Main Menu

  • Home
  • Interior Design Loans
  • Designer Reviews
  • Interior Design
  • Architecture and Finance
  • Capital

Interior Design School Review

Header Banner

Interior Design School Review

  • Home
  • Interior Design Loans
  • Designer Reviews
  • Interior Design
  • Architecture and Finance
  • Capital
Interior Design
Home›Interior Design›O’DonnellBrown designs outdoor playhouse for Edinburgh Arts Center

O’DonnellBrown designs outdoor playhouse for Edinburgh Arts Center

By Macie Vincent
December 12, 2021
0
0

The Calton Hill Play Shelter is a modular, removable structure designed by Scottish firm O’DonnellBrown for the Collective Contemporary Art Center in Edinburgh, Scotland.


Located at the Calton Hill World Heritage Site, the 25-square-meter shelter stands in a flagstone courtyard outside the art venue, which is in a 19th-century observatory.

Calton Hill Play Shelter is located at the Edinburgh Collective Art Center

The observatory, designed in 1818 by William Playfair to evoke a Greek temple, had previously remained empty until its transformation into an art center by Collective Architecture in 2018.

Glasgow-based O’DonnellBrown designed the playhouse to accommodate a variety of activities in the Collective’s learning program, including parts games and creative events for families.

Wooden pavilion for outdoor learning
The shelter was designed to support the centre’s outdoor learning program

Calton Hill Play Center is the latest in a series of shelters by the studio that is designed to promote outdoor learning during the coronavirus pandemic. Others include the Rainbow Pavilion and the Community Classroom in Glasgow.

“The playhouse demonstrates the adaptability of the design principles used in our community classroom project applied to a very sensitive location,” said O’DonnellBrown co-founder Sam Brown.

Pavilion at the collective on Calton Hill
The design nods to the classical architecture of the existing buildings on the site

The basic structural approach used in these previous outdoor learning projects has been applied to the Calton Hill Play Shelter, which is designed to stay in place for at least three years.

“The client was a pleasure working with him to bring it into the historical context, creating a harmonious addition that also respects the principles of the circular economy,” added Brown.

Modular wooden structure
It includes a modular wooden structure

O’DonnellBrown took inspiration from the classic observatory in the town opposite to determine the proportions of the whitewashed timber frame, which is constructed from bolted columns that can be easily dismantled.

“The rhythm and proportions of the surrounding 19th-century classical architecture determined the column spacing and the height of the roof,” the studio explained.

The Community Classroom by O'DonnellBrown

O’DonnellBrown encourages outdoor learning with The Community Classroom

A polycarbonate roof covers the shelter and is raised slightly to create a space at the level of the skylight.

Wood panels fill some of the spaces between the columns, while others are left open to provide a number of entry and exit routes to the space.

Wooden pavilion with polycarbonate roof
It is sheltered by a polycarbonate roof

To conceal the steel footings of the Calton Hill Playhouse, the yard slabs were temporarily removed and replaced to minimize the impact of the shelter.

The existing stone wall around the perimeter of the observatory conceals the shelter from the view to the outside, while protecting its open interior from the strong winds on the site.

Wooden pavilion
The shelter’s steel footings are concealed

O’DonnellBrown is an architecture studio founded in Glasgow in 2013 by Jennifer O’Donnell and Brown.

His outdoor classroom prototype, first established in the community classroom, is now being manufactured by furniture and design company Spaceoasis.

The photograph is by Ross Campbell.

Related posts:

  1. Design imaginative and prescient: Karim Rashid from Karim Rashid Inc
  2. Take a peek contained in the Britely – a non-public paradise in Los Angeles
  3. Analysis Particulars Developments in Srore Industrial Inside Design Companies Market By 2028 | Aecom, Cannon Design, Gensler – KSU
  4. Residences Inside Design Market Measurement, Key Firm Profiles, Varieties, Purposes and Forecast to 2027 – SoccerNurds

Categories

  • Architecture and Finance
  • Capital
  • Designer Reviews
  • Interior Design
  • Interior Design Loans

Recent Posts

  • Fort 137 Designed by Daniel Joseph Chenin, Ltd. Recognized as a finalist in the International 2022 A+Awards for Architecture and Interior Design
  • Counterfeit designer clothes worth over $2 million seized
  • Evan Spiegel Miranda Kerr paid off college loans for Otis College graduates
  • Home decor tips: Paint expert shares wall color to avoid ‘putting people off!’
  • Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Review | GameGrin

Archives

  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • July 2020
  • May 2020
  • November 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms and Conditions