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‘The main architectural challenge was that the building would have no obvious back as it is in the middle of the campus with fronts to all sides’
© Mark Smulian Most of its lecture theatres, rooms and break-out spaces will
be available on a first-come first-served basis. The university, then known as Bournemouth College of
Technology, began to develop the suburban site (a few miles from the coast for which the town is best known) in the early 1970s but it had grown up piecemeal. In addition to designing Fusion 1, architectural practice
BDP has created a development framework intended to ensure that over coming decades new buildings on the campus
fit harmoniously within their surroundings. Main contractor Willmott Dixon was appointed by
the university from the Scape framework run by a group of local authorities, and has now partnered the university on several buildings. BDP’s Keith Papa, who designed the building, explains:
“The brief from the university was that they wanted a building that would collect other facilities that were scattered across the campus as it had grown up, as well as also becoming the main hot food service outlet. “The site had been a car park right in the middle of the
campus, and it was rather odd that the university had grown up around it. They needed to do something with the site.” While the site presented no notable technical issues, Papa
says the architectural challenge “was much more that the building would have no obvious back as it is in the middle of the campus and the development plan we have drawn up allows buildings to be sited around it, so this building has fronts to all sides, which is difficult for example when it comes to where you site the bins for the catering”. Fusion 1 is built on a concrete frame rising from the ground
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and a steel frame descending from the roof. Inside, most walls are plasterboard to allow for future flexibility. On entering the building for the first time, a major internal
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