The adjacent new pedestrian square makes a major contribution to the city’s public realm and connects the building to the wider environment.
Iain explains the considerable benefi ts of the initial structure for the new function, despite being designed for healthcare: “The thinner parts, the wards themselves, are only about eight metres wide, and about fi ve metres fl oor to fl oor at their tallest, so you’ve got huge amount of daylight and easy, natural ventilation in all those spaces.”
The university wanted to create a “much more collaborative type of teaching space,” and have a fruitful mix of tenanted spaces, including innovative start ups, with the teaching, which itself features an array of interesting AI ethics subject matter for example. There are also ‘maker spaces’ for tenants and teaching, and a range of crossover interests and subjects shared between the two.
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Iain pinpoints the way the design “fl ips” the original hospital design of separation, to provide more connectivity between these generous spaces. He explains how the extensions along the north fl ank of the corridor are teaching spaces, but also “provide another line of connectivity between the ‘wards.’” He adds: “It was all driven by the idea that the teaching spaces in the former wards can have one type of teaching, and then without changing any rooms, they can all break out into the seminar space to hold a small lecture, and then go back out into their teaching spaces.” Iain explains that the fi nal piece of the puzzle is the extension along the south edge of the main corridors, “always envisaged as a sort of dwell space for the university,” and “essentially break out space.” Its purpose is to “try and promote the same discussion that many higher education projects talk about – mixer space outside the teaching areas. But it does
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