Facilities
ESALA is located in the heart of Edinburgh's Old Town on campuses at Chambers Street, Lauriston Place and Alison House. This ancient fabric supports a considerable array of studio spaces, lecture rooms, seminar rooms, galleries, libraries, and workshops, as well as state-of-the-art 2 and 3D printing, manufacturing and prototyping technologies.
The facilities within ESALA provide for every form of making: from casting to digital design, from wood and metal construction to desk-based research and publication. Progressive design practice relies on intelligent and critical engagement with traditional and emergent technologies. ESALA actively seeks to engage with established and evolving technologies, to update these technologies regularly and to address their significance for practice throughout an architectural education.
The craft skill and critical awareness of graduates of the architecture and landscape architecture programmes is a distinguishing feature of their later professional practice.
Facilities include 24-hour-accessible studios, a workshop, multimedia laboratories, a printing and digital media centre, gallery, and specialist architecture and landscape architecture libraries.
Postgraduate Facilities include student offices and Alison House, the Graduate School of the School of Arts Culture and the Environment.
Students also have access to the resources of: the City Libraries, the National Library of Scotland, the Royal Commission for Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Historic Scotland and the National Trust for Scotland.
Over the course of a student's time studying at ESALA s/he circuits through most of these facilities and becomes intimately familiar with their distinctive productive capacities.
