Govan Graving Docks – a collective endeavor to create a cultural and heritage focused vision for the future Post 3/3 Placemaking – Urban Strategy Respect and Repair The site in its current condition is unsafe and deteriorating. Our emerging residential proposals repair the historic fabric and listed features making the site safe for visitors and celebrate existing physical, social and cultural heritage of the category A listed site. Reinforce Residential proposals reinforce the sense of place by building on the historical urban density. We proposed to reconfigure the existing weak site edge conditions and bring defined street frontages, improving the quality of streetscape. Reactivate and Reconnect Residential proposals create new public routes and amenities drawing residents from the surrounding communities and connecting back together detached areas of the city. We propose to reinstate the historic Highland Lane as a new raised public walkway (or ‘urban pier’) providing a new north to south connection to the River Clyde. New east to west pedestrian and cycling routes would reanimate the site and strengthen connections between surrounding sites on the river front, helping to form the ‘Riverside Loop’. Site-wide vision This new approach to the regeneration of the Govan Graving Docks has culminated in a new, co-authored cultural and heritage led regeneration vision, which includes a bold and imaginative balance between creating new homes, preserving, repairing, and reopening the docks for historical ship repairing, while inviting other exciting and compatible uses. Through discussions with local people and organisations, common themes such as providing space for making, space for storytelling and space for cultural activity have been woven into the emerging proposal, sitting alongside new homes and connections across and through the site to create a truly mixed-use community. #govangravingdocks #odonnellbrownarchitects #glasgow #architecture