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Certified B Corporation — Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
Certified B Corporation — Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
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Certified B Corporation — Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
Certified B Corporation — Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
Certified B Corporation — Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
Certified B Corporation — Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —

Russell Street, St Catharine's College— Cambridge

Client(s)

St. Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge

Collaborator(s)

Michael Hadi Associates, Max Fordham, Davis Langdon, Qube

This project added twenty two graduate rooms and fellows’ sets to an existing college site in central Cambridge. The insertion re-structured the planning of the site to make sense of the earlier development, which was both unresponsive to its garden setting and the potential of the site.

The restricted nature of the backland lot necessitated a carefully considered response that maintained the privacy and amenity of the surrounding properties, and re-focused all of the accommodation, both new and existing, around a new shared and enclosed garden.

The superstructure of the building is an innovative and highly sustainable solid-wood timber system – whose rapid on-site construction offered significant programme benefits. The timber is selectively exposed as an internal wall finish, lending the bedrooms and circulation spaces a particular material quality.

The project was awarded a RIBA Spirit of Ingenuity Residential Design Award in 2010.

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Image credits: Tim Soar

Awards

RIBA Award

RIBA – Spirit of Ingenuity Award

Press

Peter Smithson often referred to the art of 'good ordinariness' in architecture — Architects Journal, January 2010

Related

Trinity College — Cambridge

Working across a range of scales, from estate studies, to carefully made contemporary interventions within existing buildings

Wolfson Flats, Churchill College — Cambridge

The comprehensive re-modelling of the 1960's building as the centrepiece of a new graduate campus

Housing — North-West Cambridge

CONTACT

studio@5thstudio.co.uk

We are keen to receive CVs and short portfolios from Part 1 and Part 2 designers. Please contact us via recruitment@5thstudio.co.uk

We actively encourage qualified applicants from underrepresented backgrounds to apply.

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