ABSTRACT
In April 2011 Queens Cross Housing Association successfully gained the vote of local people to become the registered social landlord of the Woodside neighbourhood. They established the Woodside Community Involvement Group, comprising local people from a variety of cultures. This chapter presents a case study of Collective Architecture, which is a Glasgow-based cooperative large–medium design studio with 28 staff. It investigates opportunities for the existing housing stock and open spaces in collaboration with Association and Community Group in 2013. The Cedar Flats research project – carried out in close collaboration with their client Queens Cross Housing Association – explored the viability of retaining a series of three 1960s tower blocks in Glasgow’s West End, and whether these might be refurbished to Passive House standards. The outcome of the study, and intensive consultation with residents within the towers was that the tower blocks should be retained.
