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Dunbar Fish Yards

From Architectural Design: Tectonics - Timber Studio
2026

Fish are landed, lifted, processed, salted, dried, packed, stored, and exported. Workers rest, repair, gather. Tides rise below. Timber as ordered system, harbour as working community, structure as enduring skeleton, occupation as living flesh.

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Dunbar Sawmill

From Architectural Design: Tectonics - Timber Studio
2026

The network of sheds extends Monks’ Walk into a continuous industrial landscape. Timber moves through a sequence of spaces that operate as both processing infrastructure and adaptable work environments. The Ridge operates within this system.

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Delinquent Details

From On Detail (in Architecture)
2025

Through case studies and a variety of lenses (such as historical, material, feminist, environmental, etc.), investigating the architectural detail as a locus for design intelligence, rigour and imagination.

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Field Investigations

From Architectural Design: Explorations - Field Objects: Pentland Hills
Collaborators: Xander Froggatt, Andrea Lumina, Cameron Paul
2024

Not the Highlands, neither the Lowlands of Scotland, are the Pentlands, this dense patchwork of territorial samples literally at the doorstep of Edinburgh, the test site for future habitation in the country’s side.

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Three Houses, Three Lives

From Architectural Design: Any Place
2024

A sloped garden and playground, bridging the gap between Rue de l’Eemitage & Rue de Cascades. I chose the site due to the challenges imposed when working within a sloped context particularly through the modelling of context and the leading of people upwards and downwards between both streets.


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Meadows Community Centre

From Architectural Design: In Place
2023

Positioned off the tip of the Meadows - a secluded, grafitti covered space of ‘grunge’ for which few pass through aside from inhabitants of the site. A site of spanning history, locked in stone.

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Elliott Osmond
elliottosmond@icloud.com
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CV
I am a Scottish-Canadian architecture graduate from the University of Edinburgh (RIBA Part 1), with a particular interest in the relationship between place and inhabitation. Growing up in Scotland with a longstanding connection to Nova Scotia has shaped my understanding of how architecture emerges from cultural and natural contexts.
      My experience working with Brian Mackay-Lyons in Lunenburg, alongside my final year research and design work, has strengthened my interest in timber construction, craft, and the relationship between drawing and built form. I am particularly interested in architecture that is rooted in its setting and developed through careful consideration of structure and human experience.





Education
MA (Hons) Architectural Design
First Class
University of Edinburgh 2022-2026

Advanced Higher Mathematics: A
Scottish Highers: 8As, including Graphic Communication and Geography.
2021-2022




Employment Mackay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects
Intern Architect
2025
Assisting the design of various residential projects regional to Nova Scotia, working closely with Brian Mackay-Lyons.

Scottish Opera
Carpenter & Draughtsman
2025
Constructing and designing detail drawings for the set of Trial by Jury and Madame Butterfly.




ReferencesBrian MacKay-Lyons
Founding Principal, MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects
Suite 130, 1715 Lower Water St.
NS, Canada, B3J 0J4
bml@mlsarchitects.ca

Niall Black
Head of Production, Scottish Opera
40 Edington Street
Glasgow, G2 4PT
Niall.Black@scottishopera.org.uk




Digital Skills
Fluent knowledge of:
    Photoshop
    InDesign
    Premiere Pro
    AutoCAD
    Rhinoceros 3D
    Grasshopper
    Twinmotion

Operational knowledge of:
    Illustrator
    After Effects
    Sketchup
    Revit
    V-Ray/Corona





Awards & PublicationsESALA 2024-25 Publication Feature
2025

School Prize for Graphic Communication
2022

Architecture Dissertation
2026














Last updated 18.08.2026