Student Hub, University College Cork

A sensitive and crafted intervention at the heart of UCC which, through a process of careful conservation, adaptation and reuse, transforms the existing building and reconfigures it’s setting within a landscape of quadrangles, courtyards and squares. The Student Hub is conceived with great freedom, respecting the simple form and craft of the existing building, it integrates effortlessly within the campus context while affirming its own unique identity.

The project speaks to one of architecture’s most pressing challenges - the conservation of limited resources through greater and more intelligent forms of adaptation and reuse of our often underutilised, historic buildings