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Stride Treglown 900-bed Passivhaus student residence approved in Bristol
Plans for one of the world’s largest student accommodation schemes designed to Passivhaus standards have been approved. The scheme for the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) and designed by Stride Treglown, was given the go-ahead by South Gloucestershire Council. The UWE Bristol scheme comprises 900 bedspaces over 26,000 m2
in a mix of
studio, four, six and eight-bed clusters. Once complete, the complex of buildings will operate at a 75% carbon reduction compared to the same size buildings of traditional design and construction. Alongside the ambitious energy targets, the brief called for a design that responds to the existing student accommodation. The development will create a “variety of amenity spaces and green corridors, strengthening the connection between the buildings and nature,” said the architects. Stride Treglown’s architecture and landscape design teams worked to create a design solution that met the varied brief. The scheme adheres to Passivhaus principles by being “shaped and orientated to gain maximum benefit from winter sun.” Glazing levels to each elevation vary to balance the need to provide daylighting, ventilation and views with minimal heat loss and solar gain. Deep reveals, perforated
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panels and shading fins are employed to “balance the competing demands of the window design,” said the practice. Student comfort and wellbeing was a key
goal for the project, focusing on air quality and use of natural finishes in interior spaces. Stride Treglown’s interiors team integrated “innovative social and study spaces,” plus laundry and cycling facilities into the design,
following “extensive” student consultation. These are arranged to ensure that every student is close to communal amenities which open into landscaped courtyards to encourage social interaction. Landscape design, also by Stride
Treglown, will lead to “major gains in biodiversity across the site” and provide landscaped courtyards, orchard-planting and green corridors – following national ‘Building with Nature’ standards, to which UWE Bristol researchers themselves contributed. Pedestrian connectivity across the site will be “dramatically improved” with an integrated cafe and study hub located on a new tree-lined boulevard. This project “significantly addresses the university’s commitment to address the challenges of climate change, and move towards its 2030 carbon targets, as well as its commitment to student wellbeing and experience at UWE Bristol,” said Stride Treglown.
The scheme will start on site in 2021 with the first phase ready for occupation in September 2023 academic year. This is phase one of planned development that will deliver a total of over 2,250 new student beds on the Frenchay campus.
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