Anglia Ruskin University purchased a 3.5 hectare site between Young Street and New Street in 2008. The site currently consists of a disused Victorian primary school, known as the Ragged School, derelict buildings from the former Cambridge College for Further Education and unused land. With the exception of a nursery school on Young Street and two private residences on Young Street and Sturton Street, the University owns the entire block. With the completion of current building works on their main Cambridge Campus, there is little room for further development and it is the intention of the University to develop the entire Young Street site in three phases. The first phase for immediate construction and completion by August 2013 will house the relocated faculty of nursing studies, currently at Fulbourn. Later phases will include some administration, academic buildings and a 200 seat lecture theatre. The rehabilitation of the Ragged School for general teaching purposes is also included. The first phase new building will have a total floor area of 2336m². Its ground and first floors are devoted to the faculty of nursing. The ground floor has four “skills laboratories” being mock ups of hospital wards and the circulation area which is two storeys high contains some informal catering which will be available for the whole campus. On the first floor are six identical teaching spaces; the second floor is mostly open plan administration; and finally at the top floor on the extreme west end is a meeting room. The environmental performance of the building is critical to understanding its design. The lower two floors are entirely naturally ventilated with air admitted via floor vents to the ground floor rooms and ceiling vents to the first floor rooms. External acoustic conditions oblige us to seal the fenestration on New Street and so extract is via externally expressed brick chimneys. These have been designed to form a major architectural feature to this elevation and, of course, there are obvious references to the famous elevation on Trinity Lane in the centre of the city. The north and south elevations deliberately contrast, the former being essentially a masonry wall punctured with windows whereas the south is predominantly glazed and protected with louvres from over heating. The main access staircase on the south west elevation is expressed in the glazing which steps up to the meeting room at the very top. Work on Phase 1 of the project started on site in early 2013 with completion in Summer 2014. Architects Richard Murphy, James Mason, Stephen Leonard, Kevin McAvinchey richardmurphyarchitects/
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