Richard Feilden House in London, United Kingdom

July 29, 2010 Category: Education, Public Buildings

Located in London, United Kingdom, designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley, Richard Feilden House forms the third and final phase of the construction of the new Westfield Student Village at Queen Mary University of London’s Mile End campus. Phases I and II were completed in September 2004 and provided 995 student bedrooms within six buildings, along with a café-bar, multipurpose room, launderette, reception and offices and shop.

Richard Feilden House provides 200 student rooms in 9 and 11 room flats above Student Union Office and Restaurant, creating a new focal external space for the campus, including the light pole sculpture designed as part of this project. It completes the Westfield Student Village buildings and external spaces.

The crescent-shape building is elevated above a colonnaded plinth containing the Student Union Office and Restaurant, and defines a newly created south facing public place which addresses the buildings around it. The project includes the design of the new square including the seating and the light pole sculpture which completed the external landscaping of the Student Village .

The 200 study bedrooms are arranged over 5 floors in flats of nine and eleven rooms, each with a large communal kitchen. The bedroom windows follow the grid of the rooms, while the kitchen windows provide animation to the façade. The project was completed in 2007 with a construction budget of 12m Euros.

At the outset the client and project team established strategic design am

Richard Feilden House Design by Feilden Clegg Bradley