Working within the Architecture and Social Space Masters Unit at The University of Dundee, my focus in my final year was to explore how people connect to architecture and take ownership of the spaces they inhabit. I explored whether these change depending on whether the architecture is permanent or temporary, and whether it is individually or collectively owned.

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Working within Perth, Scotland, the area chosen as a focus for this study was Murray Royal Hospital set within the small suburb community of Bridgend, located just across one of Perth's bridges crossing the River Tay. Murray Royal Hospital is home to patients who experience a range of mental health conditions, and who require medium or low security care. These patients provided an opportune community for whom to taylor the project and thesis research towards, and provided a wealth of information regarding the transitory convergence of a range of people from the community within the institution, to the community outside the hospital walls.



The design project itself took the form of a Halfway House; a transitory building used to help bridge the often traumatic shift in environments from the constrained life and patterns within the institution and the seemingly unregulated freedom of the world outside.