Maelys Garreau, who recently completed Stage 3 Architecture studies in the Mackintosh School of Architecture at The Glasgow School of Art, has scooped two of the five prestigious RIAS-A&DS student awards.
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| Maelys Garreau: Catch-up - an institution for children who have been in hospital which would help them catch-up on creative development that they might have missed. The proposal won two of the five RIAS-A&DS student awards. |
Maelys won both the A&DS Best 3rd Year Student Award and The RIAS - Andy MacMillan Drawing Award for her response to a brief to create an Institute of Creative Learning on the GSA’s new Highlands and Islands Campus near Forres. Her work was unveiled at GSA Degree Show last month and is now on show at The Lighthouse along with the other winning and shortlisted projects.
The Glasgow School of Art is developing a Highlands and Islands campus in a group of Grade A Listed Italianate Buildings on the Altyre Estate near Forres. Stage 3 Architecture students were set a brief to design an Institute of Creative Learning on the site. Maelys’ response to the brief was Catch-up - an institution for children who had been in hospital which would help them to catch-up on creative development that they might have missed.
“The open and remote environment allows for freedom of creative expression in movement and play,”explains Maelys. “It allows for the use of all the senses in the ways that children face challenges and adapt to them.”
“This is a sophisticated approach to creating architecture for children, immersively approaching the building through the eyes of a child”, said the judges in awarding her the Best 3rd Year Student Award..
Of her set of drawings which won her a second award the judges said: “This is a superbly seductive set of drawings which are immersed in creating a vision of a future seen through a child’s eyes. They have great charm but no hint of childishness. It is a sophisticated collection of very beautiful images which generate convincing architecture.”
"Maelys was an exceptional and determined student who has developed a strong and very individual response to the complex societal question of the importance of 'learning'," says Katherine Li, Stage 3 Architecture tutor at The Glasgow School of Art. "She evolved an architectural proposition which takes the child's view of learning, allowing them to embark on an educational journey of delight, discovery and enchantment. Her design is sophisticated, believable and beautifully presented.”
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Jointly held by A&DS and RIAS the annual student awards recognise academic projects from the five Scottish Schools of Architecture. Awarded are the RIAS Rowand Anderson Silver Medal (5thYear student), the A&DS award for best 3rd year Student, the A&DS Urban Design Award, the A&DS Sustainable Design Award and the RIAS Andy Macmillan Drawing Award.
The A&DS and RIAS Scottish Student Awards for Architecture Exhibition are on show in The Lighthouse, Glasgow until 25 September 2016.
This year’s judges were:
Iain Connelly, PPRIAS, President RIAS 2013-15
Sandy Robinson, Principal Architect, Scottish Government
Christophe Egret, Studio Egret West, London
Karen Anderson, Chair, Architecture and Design Scotland