University College Oxford

Camlins is working with Níall McLaughlin Architects and Kim Wilkie, for University College, introducing a number of new buildings, courtyards and gardens within the college’s existing satellite annexe in north Oxford. The scheme is for 150 new student bedrooms, with other college facilities, including a student café, gym, study rooms, common room and children’s nursery. Unsympathetic development has been removed, allowing a new movement network and sequence of views, all set very carefully between the existing historic buildings and mature trees.

Existing and new buildings frame a series of richly planted open, south facing gardens and courts that are connected by a principal east-west path. The material palette is restrained, to reflect the Victorian garden character, so consists of sandstone, brick pavers and self binding gravel. Similarly, the planting is kept simple, based around the mature trees, dense boundary screens, yew hedges, lawns and biodiverse meadows.

Client

University College Oxford

Date

2022 - Ongoing

Team

Níall McLaughlin Architects / Kim Wilkie