Newcastle University Campus
With a focus on the student experience, clear movement and wayfinding through the campus and connecting the city centre, Colour have supported major investment at the university with a number of projects.
Most notably the INTO Newcastle helps international students with a foundation year, offering both residential and teaching accommodation whilst the Baddiley-Clark Building ‘provides a central hub for the world-leading research carried out by the Faculty of Medical Sciences’.
Highly relevant to sensitive campus upgrading, these projects reflect :
Works within a live campus site with phasing and planning to avoid disruption to University services
Works within and around listed buildings
Creation of arrival and meeting areas
Improved legibility and wayfinding
Compliance with University standards and common specifications
The Baddiley Clark Building provides teaching accommodation for medical sciences and is located on the edge of the campus adjacent to a conservation area in a location adjoining a Grade II listed building which was also refurbished as part of the scheme.
A high quality, civic public realm was created including an approach to soft landscape works to enhance site biodiversity through the creation of a series of native habitats including wetland, green roof areas and a green wall.
The scheme achieved an assessment of BREEAM ‘Excellent’ and also won the Sustainability
Category of Newcastle’s Lord Mayor’s Design Awards.
The INTO Newcastle development is located on the opposite side of the Campus, at its entry point from the main shopping area and transport connections therein.
It included the construction of a new teaching block and the refurbishment of a Grade II listed building to provide student accommodation.
Nature-inspired spaces were laid out to make the most of the site microclimate to promote usable, social areas for use by the public and university population. A new private accommodation courtyard was also created.
Levels changes were used positively to provide south facing seating opportunities and DDA-compliant access routes.
Biodiversity enhancement was achieved by extensive greening within the site and the introduction of significant canopy cover and linear habitats in the form of native hedgerows.
Reflecting the highest standards of construction management, in addition to novation to the contractor on the INTO scheme, Colour were retained as a client side advisor and quality monitor to ensure that works were delivered according to employers requirements.
During design development for both schemes Colour contributed regular to stakeholder engagement sessions with the University and key stakeholders to ensure that specific requirements were understood and that design proposals took on board comments and review as they progressed.
Key lessons learned from the projects at Newcastle University to bring into the Headingley Campus project include:
Understanding of the logistical needs of the campus
Balancing the needs of different stakeholders
Understanding potential future uses of external spaces to ensure that infrastructure is provided to support them
Design development in support of the University brand
The use of all opportunities for greening and biodiversity enhancement within constrained campus sit
CLIENT Newcastle University & INTO TEAM Faulkner Brown Architects Cundall Summers Inman Gardiner & Theobold DPP Davis Langdon Buro Happold Arup CONTRACTOR Kier BAM LOCATION Newcastle Upon Tyne STATUS In operation
CLIENT Newcastle University & INTO TEAM Faulkner Brown Architects Cundall Summers Inman Gardiner & Theobold DPP Davis Langdon Buro Happold Arup CONTRACTOR Kier BAM LOCATION Newcastle Upon Tyne STATUS In operation
AWARDS Baddiley Clarke (Transport House, Newcastle University) - Award Winner: Sustainability Category, Lord Mayors Design Awards & Commended: New Building Category, Lord Mayors Design Awards
AWARDS Baddiley Clarke (Transport House, Newcastle University) - Award Winner: Sustainability Category, Lord Mayors Design Awards & Commended: New Building Category, Lord Mayors Design Awards