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Teesside University Student Life Building in Middlesbrough
1 Oct 2020
Teesside University Student Life Building
Design: FaulknerBrowns Architects
Location: Middlesbrough, northeast England, UK

A new focal point on Teesside University?s Middlesbrough campus, the University Student Life Building provides an open and welcoming environment where students can access support services, alongside a varied mix of learning spaces.

Addressing the perceived stigma which surrounds the pursuit of help and support for issues of mental health, the building has been designed to break down the barriers to access, providing an inclusive space for enhanced student wellbeing.
Supporting Student Life

The concept of the Student Life Building emerged from consultation with staff and students conducted as part of the development of the university?s ten-year Masterplan and Estates Strategy, which FaulknerBrowns led in 2016-17. The concept was to create a central location for students to access all of the information and services offered by the university to support student life outside of the seminar room or lecture theatre, with all of the services also accessible online, 24 hours a day, on or off campus. To do this the university embarked upon a programme of physical, digital and organisational change, co-locating student facing staff in this new central location.

To embed the facility at the ...