The Crichton Project

The design competition is seeking architects for a sustainable new building, on the site of a former hospital laundry, that will do justice to its extraordinary setting and offer a world-class counterpoint to the other facilities across the estate.

Description
The Crichton Trust hopes to create a world-renowned home and destination for innovation - somewhere for people to come together and share ideas, inspired by The Crichton's history, places and spaces.
To replace Merrick, the former hospital laundry, which commands a prominent and strategic position within The Crichton and replace it with a high quality inspiring new building as a centre for reflection, research and wellbeing with a specialism of international significance in arts and wellbeing.
The new building - provisionally titled The Crichton Project for Memory and Wellbeing - will contain exhibition and archive facilities to house the Crichton Archive, and the Crichton Heritage Centre: enhancing people's understanding of the Crichton's 180 year heritage and innovation in the provision of mental health care. The building will also bring together a new visual arts and exhibition space, an intergenerational academic library, and a regional art and land archives and research centre.
We envisage the new build to be an architecturally significant building, carbon neutral (or better) and one which is as much a piece of art and wellbeing in the landscape as the art it will seek to celebrate, research and reflect.

Jury
Representatives of both the Crichton Trust Board and Stakeholders alongside guest judges from the AEC industry, and supported by RIAS Consultancy

Prize
Design contract
Following a blind shortlisting process, five teams will then be awarded an honorarium of £20,000 to develop their proposals,.

Entry Fee
None

Timetable
Winner announcement: November 2022

Organizer
Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland

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