We began this process by questioning at a fundamental level what we wanted to gain from our final year at the University of Strathclyde. We were nearing the end of a long academic process and had grown weary of drawn projects that inevitably focus on the theory of design, rather than the act of building. So we set out to realise a built scheme to better understand the complexity that construction brings, and better prepare us for practice. We identified what our learning outcomes would be and we began the search for a client to give the process parameters. In September last year, Scottish universities were offered a £5,000 grant to embed the Scottish government's Scenic Routes Initiative into their academic programmes in parallel to the main content (see page 52). The Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority became the University of Strathclyde's grant sponsor - and ultimately our client.
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