Edinburgh inhabitations: tactics for instituting, annexing, pooling and supporting the city

Architecture’s role in the New Town urban project was to establish spatial order. The New Club – both institution and urban assemblage – offered spatial, programmatic and urban readings. Like other private institutions in Edinburgh, the presence of this members’ club is reticent, almost stealthily occupying its Princes Street location. The studio asks: what does it mean to be ‘at home’ in the city, to make others feel at home? Who is most, or least at home and how? Uncovering and following evidence from city archives has informed projects of both refuge and escape for: timber craftspeople, women entrepreneurs, homeless support networks, urban administration, makars, filmmakers and scientists.