Cooke
Fawcett

2015

Balliol College,

Invited competition entry for 260 new undergraduate and graduate rooms, located on a site around an existing cricket field at the edge of the medieval centre of Oxford.

Carefully calibrated design

We proposed a sequence of three new quads whose sizes are carefully calibrated, based on detailed research of the scale of existing quads in Oxford colleges.

The buildings are arranged to provide much-needed clarity to the street frontages, with open sides that face onto the cricket field and controlled entry points to semi-private quads.