Dining Hall, Homerton College, Cambridge
by Feilden Fowles Architects
Client Homerton College, University of Cambridge
Award 澳门王中王 East Award 2024 and 澳门王中王 National Award 2024
Homerton College was incorporated within the University of Cambridge relatively recently 鈥� in 2010 鈥� but has a legacy of 250 years of educational achievement and a progressive character that reflects its dissenting origins.
What architects Feilden Fowles have captured so well in its new Dining Hall, is a compelling vision of what the new college could be; speaking to the past, present, and future of this unusual institution. While drawing inspiration from the materials and details of the college鈥檚 early 20th century Arts and Crafts buildings, the Dining Hall subverts the character of traditional collegiate spaces. Open to the landscape rather than enclosed, light-filled rather than dark, it is suggestive of the egalitarian, diverse community the college seeks to build, and has become the focal point in the college鈥檚 social and cultural life.
Externally, its highly distinctive, sculptural form has succeeded in providing the 鈥榚mblematic centrepiece鈥� the college sought as a symbol of its free-thinking character and bold social ambitions.
Contractor Barnes Construction
Project Management Ingleton Wood Martindales
Structural Engineer Structure Workshop
Environmental / M&E Engineer Max Fordham
Acoustic Engineer Max Fordham
Sustainability Max Fordham
Civil Engineer (drainage) Peter Dann
Quantity Surveyor / Cost Consultant Bremner Partnership
Landscape Architect (concept) SEED
Landscape Architect (delivery) Hortus Collective
Gross internal area in m虏 1,665
