Bath Court Student Residence, Birmingham Campus Housing, West Midlands, England Architecture News, Images
Bath Court Student Residence in Birmingham
25 Jun 2021
Design: Robert Hirschfield Architects
Location: Birmingham, West Midlands, England

Bath Court Student Residences
The Bath Court Building is a 435-bed scheme made up of a mixture of en-suite clusters and individual studios, built over 12 storeys. The student accommodation consists of 360 ensuite bedrooms within 6 and 8 bedroom apartments as well as 75 studio bedrooms.
The prominent 100m street frontage wraps itself around two sides of the site. The lower level is anchored by a new retail unit, gym, communal social space and silent study areas, with the upper levels providing the apartment accommodation for the students. To the rear, a large landscaped raised terrace provides external space for the students. An assortment of blue glazed aluminium extrusions gives the building an overall water-like effect which references the historic Victorian public baths in the Bath Row area.

Challenge

This was LinkCity?s first student accommodation scheme in the Midlands. They were looking to strengthen their development offering and already had hold of a site in Birmingham that was deemed underdeveloped.
When RHA were first asked to explore massing studies for the site, it was clear that the site was underdeveloped and that the existing 1970s office blocks had potential under a new asset class.
The development sits at a cor...