Robertson's Close student common rooms

In the autumn of 2012, Bergmark Architects, leading a multi-disciplinary team, won a competitive bid to design and deliver two extensions to student housing complexes in the centre of Edinburgh; at Sciennes and Robertson's Close.
This building, at Robertson's Close in Edinburgh's Old Town, was completed in early 2014.

The project consists of a new building block containing student common rooms and wardens' offices within an internal courtyard, removing bin stores and a laundry block from the site.

The main common room is a double height space with a mezzanine, where the double height front windows face the Courtyard. High level windows at the mezzanine lets sunlight in from the South and provides views of the silver birches in the garden behind the building. Kitchens and wcs are tucked in below the mezzanine and the staff offices and entrance lobby are accommodated within a single storey wing which links the common room to the existing student residences.