Lord Ashcroft Building, Anglia Ruskin University

The flexible, sustainable masterplan integrates new and existing buildings in the challenging context of a congested campus.

The design wraps around the courtyard at the centre of the campus, creating a four storey cloister reflecting the more traditional learning environments of Cambridge.

The cloister is interspersed with a sequence of different sized strategically placed lecture pods crowned with roof terraces.

Brief

  • respond to the significant growth of the university
  • provide new faculty spaces and modern shared facilities

Results

  • the campus reflects the university’s unique sense of culture and place
  • an accessible, welcoming and safe campus is created and enhanced through design and landscaping

Facts

Location: Cambridge, UK
Client: Anglia Ruskin University
Construction cost: £40m
Completed: 2011

Integrated services

architecture, masterplanning, acoustics

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