RIBA Stirling Prize 2016: Riverside Campus, City of Glasgow College

UK Construction Online takes a closer look at Riverside Campus, City of Glasgow College, which has been shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize 2016.

Riverside Campus, City of Glasgow College by Michael Laird Architects with Reiach and Hall, is a further education college and one of few buildings in Glasgow to embrace the River Clyde and the city’s industrial heritage.

Located at the edge of a major crossing of the River Clyde, the site marks a gateway in the city, reflecting the importance as an educational institution, but also as a new landmark.

The new buildings are organised around an enclosed garden and a grand hall, creating social spaces to encourage students to mix and see opportunities for blended learning across disciplines. The area also reflects the culture and dynamics of the city.

(C) Keith Hunter

The garden provides a cloistered edge to the river walkway.

The situating of the halls of redisence, teaching block and engineering workshop next to the Clyde, allows all rooms in the campus to have direct or oblique view of the river and the city.

The “grand hall” is welcoming and projects the college brand to the city. The learning and teaching facilities for a Maritime College, school of engineering and science, are student-facing services, learning resource centre, 170-seat refectory and public café, all intensifying the idea of community. These spaces are arranged around the grand hall, elongating vertically through the building, allowing a variety of views on the city, making orientation simple and intuitive.

 

(c) Keith Hunter

Principal and Chief Executive Officer, Paul Little, said: ‘Its seven story atrium provides a beating heart at the centre of this vibrant building, and is the entrance to the most modern, most technologically advanced and most future proofed maritime campus of all 230 such colleges anywhere in the world.”

 

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