Churchill College . Cambridge
6a architects won an international competition to design a new sustainable, 60 bedroom halls of residence for Churchill College, Cambridge. Churchill College, designed and built by Sheppard Robson in the early 1960’s as a collection of low brick and concrete courtyards, typical of British Brutalism. The new building reworks the existing courtyard type; replacing the boardmarked concrete with dark timber.
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The traditional relationship in Cambridge between court and courtyard is also inverted. The lawns typical of a college surround the outside of the building while the interior courtyard is replaced by a densely planted birch forest.
The building will be complete in summer 2016.
