Scotland

摘要

Context matters. This is brought into sharp focus when working in the coastal regions and islands of northern Scotland. Ryder's client for the Scottish Schools for the Future (SSF) programme, Hub North Scotland, has a remit to deliver public-sector projects across an area that extends from the Shetland Islands in the far north, to Campbeltown in the south. The landscape and coastline this territory covers was memorably described by Stuart MacDonald in the foreword to the 6,000 Miles exhibition (2005), part of the Scottish government's pol icy on architecture, as one that 'shapes our identity and delineates our image of Scotland. It is a point of entry and departure. It is margin and edge. It differentiates us from our neighbours, culturally... geographically.'