The building has transformed the University’s Penrhyn Road campus and raised expectations of the built environment across the University. The project has created significant public open space where none previously existed, as a popular new social heart for the University’s diverse community. It has also delivered a vast range of adaptable teaching space for use by the entire University, following a unique new model of space provision that benefits all users.

 

Characteristics of the building’s use are expressed through the distinctive ‘civic’ architecture, which is contextually rooted, and which introduces new qualities of scale, materiality, light, space and presence, as a new benchmark for Kingston University.

 

This facility was commissioned as one of three simultaneous building projects across three campuses at Kingston University. It was part of their New University Project (NUP) programme, for which JMP was appointed as masterplanner, architect and landscape architect, within a team led by Arup.