The brief was created from the location of the building and the demographic of the surrounding environment. Located on Leven Street, the host building is centred in a constantly growing residential area of Edinburgh and has seven schools present within a mile radius. During out of school hours an influx of children fill the surrounding streets. Generally they have nowhere to go and consequently often hang around on street corners. My proposal is to create an amenity space that local children can call their own.

The driving concept is derived from pieces of children’s block puzzles, which form the hierarchy of the spaces required and determine their three dimensional form.

Through development my design progressed to have a central structure which through the natural grid lines of the building links the spaces and divides the building up into its three main sections. The sun path determined where the spaces would fit within the volume and also the form which the roof structure takes, created to allow maximum light into the space.

The facade of the building works in conjunction with the existing street-scape using natural and artificial light to manipulate people's views and draw them towards the structure.