Category: ARCHITECTURE: Residential

Whitehorn Hall lies within the grounds of the existing category B Listed University Hall Old Wing, on a highly constrained site within the Hepburn Gardens Conservation Area.  The existing hall has a very specific character and the design of the new annexe set out to be sympathetic and reinforce this. HLM’s design principal was to create a series of collegiate style quads sympathetic to the scale and massing of Old Wing picking up, where appropriate, on the qualities and features […]

jmarchitects were lead consultant on the Buccleuch Place & Meadow Lane project as part of the University of Edinburgh’s estate regeneration programme.  The project provides student accommodation within thirteen refurbished Grade ‘B’ Georgian townhouses to Buccleuch Place, new purpose-built student accommodation to Meadow Lane with a central communal building set within landscaped gardens. A subterranean Energy Centre connects the development to the  University’s Central CHP plant. Through an extensive consultation period, a sensitive approach to this historic environment has resulted […]

Liberton Barns is an innovative 4-bedroom, two storey townhouse development located on a site that used to house a derelict agricultural shed. Wrapped in timber and mimicking the original agricultural shed in terms of massing, form and materials the design connects the development to the semi-rural surroundings. In a beautiful juxtaposition to the exterior the interior of the three townhouses of Liberton Barns are highly contemporary and innovatively focused around a central fully glazed void courtyard. The courtyard cuts through the roof […]