Modern student accommodation in a traditional collegiate setting

Designed by Níall McLaughlin Architects and carried out by Alucraft Systems, the Master’s Field Development for Balliol College, University of Oxford, comprises 225 furnished ensuite study bedrooms arranged across eight new buildings and supported by ancillary facilities, as well as a new sports pavilion.

The buildings frame and animate outdoor gathering spaces, while privacy in the bedrooms is maintained via deeply recessed window bays. The bedrooms themselves are organised in clusters around social spaces that are accessed through glazed stairways linked to generously shared kitchens and common rooms.