This event has now taken place. 

Following UDF’s December session on ’20th Century Buildings – Refurbish or Replace’ at KCL, this follow-up event showcases the outcomes of a recently concluded three-year project by the Education Design Unit (EDU) in response to AUDE’s request for insights to optimise higher education estates.

Forged in multi-disciplinary collaboration with Make Architects, Elliott Wood, Max Fordham, Gustafson Porter + Bowman, and ZZA Responsive User Environments, the EDU’s Strategic Design Guide: Optimising University Estates is distinctive for its rounded and in-depth coverage of challenges facing universities:

The evolving culture of learning and student living

The climate crisis and achieving net-zero carbon emissions

Adapting existing buildings and external spaces for enhanced value and utility

Providing a pathway to inform decision-making from brief development and project conception.

The Guide includes a case study on the refurbished Quadrangle Building at King’s College (via EDU member Elliott Wood) as well as other adaptive reuse exemplars. The event will:

• Share insights from the guide

• Present a holistic approach and methodologies for evaluating the adaptive capabilities of existing infrastructure, covering buildings, landscape and net zero building servicing

• Include presentation of ZZA’s independent Post Occupancy Evaluation of Make’s studio – housed in an adapted former lower ground level car-park

• Foster dialogue on participants’ own concerns and experience in providing enhanced campus environments with leaner resource use

Hosted at Make’s London studio in Fitzrovia. You can access the guide here:

https://makearchitects.foleon.com/thought-leadership

Draft Schedule

• 17:00 Arrival with drinks
• 17:30 Presentations of Guide + Post Occupancy Evaluation of Make’s studio
• 18:15 Open discussion – delegates + presenters sharing experiences, moderated by James Redman, Make.
• 19:00 Informal drinks
• 20:00 Finish

University Design Forum extend their thanks to the host and sponsor, Make.