George Clarke crowns Bertha Park and Perth Excessive College college students victorious for inventive design
RENOWNED architect and TV presenter George Clarke topped the winners of a inventive design problem that can inform the design a brand new £28 million complex-needs facility in Perth.
Functionality Scotland, the charity behind ‘Our Inclusive Neighborhood Challenge’, partnered with MOBIE (Ministry of Constructing Innovation and Training) to encourage co-production and affect the creation of the nationally vital improvement.
From a pool of 23 submissions, Isla Bethune of Bertha Park Excessive College, and Tassi Forbes of Perth Excessive College each wowed the judges with their progressive designs. Each entrants received the class awards for Design and Sustainability and had been named the joint general winners by George Clarke in yesterday’s (June 29) awards ceremony.
Commenting on the problem, George mentioned: “Inspiring younger expertise to assist outline the communities of the long run is an actual ardour of mine. Creating communities which might be progressive, lovely, genuinely sustainable, and rework the standard of individuals’s lives is why we run these challenges.
“I used to be blown away by the standard of submissions. Every was extremely nicely thought out and took under consideration the numerous and complicated wants of those that will use the areas.
“I’ve actually loved being a part of this course of, bringing collectively the sensible minds from a variety of backgrounds, and I’m excited to observe the venture because it develops.”
On Isla’s entry, judges famous: “Thorough and considerate design. Meets nearly all of standards, to a really excessive normal”, and added “Wow! Sensible mannequin, occupied with placemaking and the way it may delight and be accessible” on Tassi’s design.
Problem sponsors, Springfield Properties, Allia C&C and Sigma Capital Group, awarded £250 in know-how vouchers to every of the class winners, which included prospects from native care services, and Corseford Faculty college students. Isla and Tassi have each been awarded a further £250 know-how voucher for being the general winner.
Distinctive trophies created by prospects who will profit from the brand new facility had been offered, and every of the class winners has been given the chance to take part in work expertise with Anderson, Bell + Christie Architects.

Problem judges included Mark Southgate, MOBIE’s Chief Govt, Caroline Dearden, Director at A,B+C Architects, Niamh Waldron, ESG Director at Sigma Capital Group, Accessible Journey & Incapacity Blogger, Merely Emma, and wheelchair athlete and incapacity sport advocate, Gemma Lumsdaine.
Brian Logan, Chief Govt of Functionality Scotland, mentioned: “Co-production is central to our imaginative and prescient of making exemplar services for individuals with various and complicated wants. Involving proficient younger individuals of Scotland within the design of our most strategic venture so far is extraordinarily thrilling.
“We’re overwhelmed with the standard of the submissions, and the creativity used to develop such unimaginable and considerate designs.”
The brand new website at Bertha Park will encompass 60 self-contained studio flats for people with advanced wants, with a brand new major college and prime quality, vitality environment friendly housing to observe. These will likely be constructed on the positioning adjoining to the present Bertha Park Excessive College and the inventive designs recognized throughout this problem will feed into the construct.
Caroline Dearden, Director at Anderson, Bell + Christie architects, mentioned: “As lead architect for Functionality Scotland’s Our Inclusive Neighborhood Challenge, we had been delighted to become involved with their design problem and collaborate with MOBIE in serving to to take ahead such an thrilling initiative.
“The transient Functionality Scotland set for this inspiring problem, was meant to encourage inventive minds, and embed the significance of inclusive communities and accessibility by means of the design course of – a part of Functionality Scotland’s core mission. The entries we acquired present that it has achieved simply that and has ignited a ardour for design, creativity, and innovation in so many younger designers from throughout the nation.
“Seeing the excellent and forward-thinking ideas which have been created by these younger individuals is unimaginable – particularly from a design perspective and thru many alternative guises, they’ve encapsulated what ‘Inclusive Residing’ actually means. Functionality Scotland locations a powerful emphasis on group and these younger designers have encompassed connections and relationships superbly inside their designs and offered them very nicely.”
Functionality Scotland is a charity delivering care, help, and schooling for disabled kids and adults throughout Scotland. It has a variety of services and providers throughout the nation which helps its prospects obtain one of the best outcomes of their lives, irrespective of their wants.
MOBIE was based in 2017 by architect and tv presenter George Clarke to encourage younger individuals to revolutionise the best way we take into consideration the locations wherein we reside. He goals to provide youthful generations a technique to outline how they need to reside now and sooner or later.
For extra data on Functionality Scotland’s MOBIE venture, go to: https://youtu.be/NRiIr2ci6fc
For extra data on Functionality Scotland, go to: https://oicp.functionality.scot/