Due to the deteriorating state that the Klein Studio is presently in, the Galashiels Fashion School, where Bernat Klein had an impact on the teaching when he was alive, have decided to purchase the Klein Studio and surrounding site. To return the Klein Studio to its former glory, the decision to use the Klein as a functioning studio for the master level fashion students. This decision was taken to accommodate the Galashiels Fashion School’s ambition to be prominent within the British Fashion education. This scope of ambition needs a building that can exhibit the great work the school in a functional, yet expressive manner.
Using the language from studying the Klein Studio this buildings aims are as followed. Firstly, to create a design that captures the signature characteristic of the Klein Studio, the vertical planes, and to explore how this acts in dialogue with it. Secondly, similarly to how the Klein Studio acts as a magnifier for its surroundings, to create a building that works with surroundings but aim to also capture and embody its surroundings.
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