New Science Building University of Hertfordshire, English Higher Education Architecture, Images
New Science Building, University of Hertfordshire
Campus Development in Herts, southeast England, UK – design by Sheppard Robson, Architects
11 Oct 2016
New Science Building
Design: Sheppard Robson, Architects
Location: Hertfordshire, England
Sheppard Robson completes New Science Building at the University of Hertfordshire

The assertive and precise architectural language is a marker of ambition for the campus?s future whilst supplying state-of-the art laboratory facilities for its present.

Work is complete on the 9,000 sqm Sheppard Robson-designed New Science Building, which occupies a prominent site at the heart of the University of Hertfordshire?s College Lane Campus, Hatfield. A major element of the university?s 2020 Vision, the building has been designed as a simple orthogonal structure that is derived from the cellular grid of the flexible laboratory spaces within.
Whilst optimised internally, the external envelope has been carefully finessed and tuned to signal the arrival of a major new facility at the university: a distinctive cladding system animates the building, whilst also helping the structure achieve BREEAM Excellent.

Fins ? made from expanded aluminium mesh ? wrap around the three solar exposed elevations of the five-storey building and act as a veil, unifying the architectural form of the structure. The regular, vertical elements allow the internal space...