The Gradel Quadrangles, New College Oxford

Oxford, United Kingdom, Europe

Completed · Education · Collegiate Quad With Load-Bearing Stone · Temperate · 2024

An expansion of New College comprising a school building, a curved main quad with 94 student bedrooms and pastoral spaces, and a 21.5m tower for the Gradel Institute of Charity. It is described as Oxford's first curved quad. The new buildings are wrapped in a curved skin of slanted, diamond-cut load-bearing limestone and sandstone tied back to a concrete structure.

Innovation highlights

  • Load-bearing thick-stone facade revives masonry construction
  • First curved quadrangle in Oxford
  • Diamond-cut patterned stonework as structure
  • Mixed school, residential and institute programme

Innovations in the catalogue

  • Load-Bearing Thick-Stone Facade
  • Diamond-Cut Curved Stone Skin
  • Mixed-Programme Collegiate Quad
Client / Developer
New College, University of Oxford
Architect
David Kohn Architects
Type
Collegiate Quad with Load-Bearing Stone

#load-bearing stone #collegiate #masonry #low carbon facade

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