Strathclyde Business School
Location: University of Strathclyde Business School, Cathedral Street, Glasgow
Client: University of Strathclyde
Value: £14 million
Status: Complete
Sustainability: BREEAM Rating - Very Good
Awards: 2016 Business School of the Year Winner
The project involves substantial refurbishment and redevelopment of 3 key buildings - The Strathclyde Business School (SBS), The Stenhouse and the Sir William Duncan Building in order to create a new cohesive ‘Business Zone’ within the university campus. The proposals include a new shared entrance on Cathedral Street, providing more active frontages at ground level, a new build 150 seat lecture theatre to the rear, flexible teaching and office accommodation and shared common areas for staff, PhD students, Post Graduate Instructional students and Undergraduate students.
The 3 buildings currently have limited inter-connectivity and different floor levels. Our challenge is therefore to design suitable connections between these levels including full disabled access throughout.
The team was commissioned to provide a design service for the extension, remodelling and refurbishment of the Strathclyde Business School campus.
The campus is made up of 3 buildings which were all built during different decades and the biggest challenge for the designers was to come up with a design solution to link them all with a common circulation core to give the campus a unified feeling. A full internal and external refurbishment with detailed design scheme was also developed to give the building a new dynamic presence in line with its importance and identity as an institution.
A new state of the art 150 seat lecture theatre was added as a part of the design. A brand new arrival entrance from Cathedral Street was created giving the school a formal presence.
Photos: Hypostyle