Caruso St John Architects

Riverside Project, Magdalen College

Riverside Project, Magdalen College

Oxford, United Kingdom

Client: Magdalen College Grade I listed

Magdalen College is famous for its medieval core which includes some of the most beautiful and spacious quads in Oxford. The college is unusual because it sits outside the original city walls on a site arrayed along the banks of the river Cherwell, the age of its buildings and its riverside setting giving it a more bucolic quality than Oxford’s later, more urban, colleges.

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Drawings 1

Site plan

Drawings 2

Ground floor plan

Drawings 3

Cross sections

Drawings 4

Garden room elevations

Drawings 5

Riverside elevations

Drawings 6

Garden room section

Model 1

Model 2

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Location
Oxford, United Kingdom

Date
2022–present

Client
Magdalen College

Heritage
Grade I listed

Sustainability
BREEAM Outstanding

Area
1,200 m²

Caruso St John Architects
Adam Caruso, Peter St John, Rod Heyes

Project architects
Catija Christensson (2022–2023), Vassia Chatzikonstantinou (2023–present)

Project team
Eleanor Catlin, James Flaus, David Lawrence, Carlos Peters, Benjamin Wells

Structural engineer
Alan Baxter

Services engineer
Ritchie + Daffin

Building Physics
NDM Heath

Cost consultant
Gardiner and Theobold

Heritage Consultant
Donald Insall Associates

Planning consultant
Carter Jonas

Acoustics
Sandy Brown

Access consultant
Access=Design

Fire engineering
Trigon Fire Safety Ltd

Sustainability and BREEAM
Twin and Earth

Ecology
Applied Ecology

Arboriculturalist
Venners Arboriculture

Approved Inspector
Socotec

Archaeology
Pre-construct Archaeology

Logistics consultant
Blue Sky Building

Catering Consultant
Humble Arnold Associates

Visualisations
Nora Walter

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