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The second year architecture students were tasked with designing a set of 鈥楩olies鈥� which would act as way finders along a 3.5km stretch of the route, helping to break down borders and connect communities.

The end result is a striking exhibition of work which shows the popular pedestrian and commuter route in a brand new light.

Many of the student designs are functional, while others are more installation based and provide users of the route with a succession of carefully designed markers from Pitfodels Station all the way to the Duthie Park.

One of the groups, 鈥楪arthdee鈥�, which included students Aimee Florence Jackson, Ewen Calder, Rebecca Hawley and Andrew MacRae, opted for a bold design which, in time, would lead to a large communal space to be used by local communities.

A spokesperson for the group commented: 鈥淲hile conducting our research and on visits to the site, it was clear that there was a considerable divide between the east and west.

鈥淲e really wanted to try and break down as many of the physical and metaphorical barriers between the two areas in a bid to connect the communities on either side.

鈥淎lthough all the groups were working to the same brief, all of the designs are quite different, although you can see the link between them as you travel down the line.鈥�

, who has been leading on the project with his colleague , commented: 鈥淒eeside Way is more than a disused railway, it is a memory line of the past that still residents find its value by connecting various parts of Aberdeen.

鈥淭hrough design studio exercise, we expect students to address the Deeside as a potential connector for east and west and connecting parts and parcel of neighbourhood that are disconnected by the railway line.鈥�

Silvia added: 鈥淚 am deeply impressed by the visual quality of the students' exhibition. It was a very challenging task, because of many different research strands.

鈥淏eing able to produce a critical mass of work within a very limited time and distil the most communicative materials for display requires maturity, competence, professionalism and at the same time pragmatism. I think that they should all be very proud of the results achieved.鈥�