Middlesex University – Trent Park
Trent Park, London
A University’s ability to attract students and staff in an increasingly competitive market place is enhanced by the provision of a high quality and successful environment. The Trent Park campus offers a unique opportunity to provide state of the art university facilities within an historic country park setting.
Through a design-led approach, we negotiated an agreement in principle with English Heritage for a threefold increase in floorspace on this green belt campus. This enabled the university to combine its 21st century requirements with the demands of a sensitive historic environment.
- ‘Green’ Campus conceived as part of a rolling landscape
- Restoration and enhancement of the historic buildings and landscape
- Removal of insensitive post war development
- Fusion of new and old to create a distinctive campus
- Creation of 44,000 sq m of academic and ancillary floorspace
- Loose fit, long life flexible building typologies
- Residences for 1,000 students
- Annual Passive Heat Storage Buildings – integrating buildings and landscape
- Low cost in use Earth sheltered buildings