ENJ124 City Campus

The new City Campus combines Further and Higher Education on a single site, replacing a surface car park on a prominent corner site in the city centre. The 18,500 sq. m campus comprises of a range of teaching spaces including two theatres, rehearsal spaces, dedicated music practice rooms, live rooms and recording studios, art studios, shared workshop spaces, film and rehearsal studios, computing workshops, graphic design suites and games design and computing rooms.

Based on a contemporary collegiate college design, the campus is a 5-storey urban block encircling a covered central courtyard. This forms the heart of the campus with social and informal leaning spaces situated on various levels within the courtyard.
The design draws on the areas' industrial heritage. The masonry is reminiscent off the Brewery buildings which once stood on the site, whilst the "woven" pattern in which the panels are arranged invokes the area's history of textile manufacturing.

2,500 m2 of curtain walling has been installed across the main facade, roof terrace and internal atrium, with 10 doorsets being utilised for the main entrance and other areas.