Studioshaw has won an ideas competition for the Scottish city Dundee with its plans for a sunken courtyard to race drones and prototype virtual reality games.
Sponsored by the Dundee Institute of Architects (DIA) and the Scottish Enterprise, the Seabraes Yards Sketch Design contest called for a new public facility for children and young people at the Digital Media Park in Seabraes Yards.
Located just a short distance from Richard Murphy's Dundee Contemporary Arts Centre and Kengo Kuma's under-construction V&A Dundee, the site is located within District 10 ? part of a billion-pound regeneration of the city's waterfront areas.

As part of this, Seabraes Yards, a former railway depot, is being transformed into a new mixed-use development for the city's growing digital media and cultural industries. London based Studioshaw's winning Interactive Hub proposal, aims to provide a space for racing drones and prototyping virtual-reality games in the open air. Digital screens would also offer opportunities for local theatre companies to showcase productions.
"Within the technology industries, prototyping is incredibly important; to test, get feedback, iterate and collaborate," said the architects. "There is a constant need for people to participate and give feed back to these innovations in order to make these products viable to take to the market."

"We thought long and hard about how to capitalise on the city's thriving creative industries and...