ABSTRACT
Description On the top three floors the building consists, essentially, of rooms, back to back, facing east and west; on the ground floor are college rooms requiring open space, so that a frame rather than loadbearing masonry was chosen as the structural system. There are 32 study bedrooms and 2 flats, as well as storage and toilet facilities behind blank panels over two bays on the west side. Each study bedroom squeezes in space for a bed, a desk, chairs as well as a basin and a built-in cupboard. A pivotal feature of this small space is a large window which opens up each room to the light. There is a window seat which projects forward from the Η-frames, on elevation, and holds the aluminium window frame. This unit both frames the outside view and, closer to, provides a sheltered vantage point on it, thus making an interesting transition between the inside and outside or between private study and the vaguer but important attachments of community.
