NORD Architecture

Dunbreac; the spotted rising ground where heather, bracken, and pasture alternated.

DUMBRECK is a unique site-specific installation that physically maps the site of the former Dumbreck House. The proposal invites visitors on a journey through space; light and reflection that registers the conditions of the Bellahouston Park site both physically and emotionally. This project challenges the idea of architecture as sculpture through employing the basic elements of scale and measurement, space and light.

In order to respond to the site context, our approach draws from the existing elements of Bellahouston Park that constitute its historical and social significance. It is our intention that the new structures are read as an adaptation and continuation of the existing landscape elements, as a composition of reconfigured planting, thresholds and external public spaces.

DUMBRECK is a corruption of the Gaelic word dunbreac, meaning the hill speckled with daisies, otherwise the spotted rising ground or ridge where heather, bracken, and pasture alternated.

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