Situated on Buchanan Street in Glasgow, the Gillespie Kidd & Coia building is in a prime retail location. My project creates retail space that is adaptable (in a state of flux), and that can be modified as the criteria of the building changes. A building that will change, adapt, grow, and evolve, becoming a 'living' space.

Using the human head as a metaphor I was able to comprise a programme which informed a spatial layout for my insertion. Housed within this architectural envelope is a hairdresser and opticians, together with a bar and restaurant which work in sync with each other creating a hybrid structure.

By investigating nature, in particular blood and plant cells, together with the sun path and how light interacts with the building I was able to generate an architectural form that solves my brief. Evolving this concept I was able to look at incorporating the circulation into my design by puncturing and penetrating the skin of the insertion.