Richard Murphy takes Cambridge campus plan to planners
July 29 2011
To be built in three phases the development will commence with teaching accommodation for the faculty of nursing, scheduled for completion by August 2013.
This linear building is dominated by a series of externally expressed brick chimneys to facilitate air extraction flues.
Housed within a heavy masonry façade, that deliberately contrasts with the predominantly glazed southern elevation; necessitated by external acoustic conditions.
Later work will see construction of further administration and academic buildings alongside a 200 seat lecture hall.
Facade treatments are drastically different on the north and south elevation
The campus occupies an unsalubrious corner of town
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#2 Posted by david nimmo on 2 Aug 2011 at 14:25 PM
Anglia Ruskin is a modern university which gains some reflected glory by being on the outskirts of the famous university town. Given the typology for which Cambridge University has become famous, and which, let's be frank, is what prospective students at any university expect, whether they get it or not, it will be interesting to see how RMA have responded. A nice piece of townscape and a departure from the ubiquitous Novotel aesthetic would be very refreshing.
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"The campus occupies an unsalubrious corner of town" - then why give it such a boring, uninspired facade to the north and south facade?