Masters Field Development Balliol College Oxford
Masters Field Development Balliol College Oxford, English University Building, UK Education Architecture Design
Masters Field Development Balliol College in Oxford
28 Sep 2022
Masters Field Development Balliol College Oxford
Architecture: Niall McLaughlin Architects
Location: Balliol College, Oxford, England, UK
Photos by Nick Kane
Jury Report
Masters Field Development Balliol College Oxford, UK
Masters Field Development is a significant addition to the edge of the urban centre of Oxford, comprising 228 bedrooms along roughly 200m of streetscape in total. It also represents the development of a sophisticated visual and constructional language which allows for the degree of repetition and subtle variation that is both necessary and appropriate for a single building project of this size and in this context.
A closely-related family of eight low-rise brickwork buildings is split into two groups of four by a single-storey, timber-clad cricket pavilion. Varying slightly in plan shape, proportion and orientation, the residential blocks are arranged with just enough informality to negotiate a curving streetscape, a fragment of existing pitched roof housing, and a street corner to the south end of the site. The gaps between the buildings create visual porosity between the street and the cricket pitch, and occasionally frame views of mature trees. The stacked timber roof inside the pavilion is a compelling set piece, and the yet-to-be-built lecture theatre at the bend in the road ...
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