Glasgow Road

Deri Mungo Russell (Year: 2)

Clune Park, Port Glasgow, Scotland. With the understanding that the garden is not an emergent scenario, nor an auto-poetic system – but a technically produced environment achieved by the will of the community and authorities. Clune park as a community–driven, urban and architectural scheme offers the possibility of new rhythms of life, allowing the inhabitants a gradient of involvement within the programme. Through maintenance and installation the project aims to counter the longstanding constructed aesthetic of degradation currently in motion at Clune Park. The use of planning and applied horticulture within the existing urban realm of the tenement housing (that has seen little attention until now), posits an opportunity for change and adaption whilst confusing the logic for demolition or further displacement of the existing community.