Apr 28 2015
Sheffield Hallam University's Heart of the Campus building, designed by HLM Architects, won an award at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Yorkshire Awards last night (Thursday 23 April).
Sheffield Hallam University's Heart of the Campus
The three storey building, at Collegiate Campus, was given a RIBA Yorkshire Award 2015 for the project team's engagement with students throughout the project, and for maintaining the conservation area of the site.
Sheffield Hallam University's brand new £27 million development at Collegiate Crescent is used by students and staff from law, politics, sociology and psychology courses.
The building is the home of the new Department of Law and Criminology, and the Department of Politics, Society and Psychology. The development has brought staff and students together in an open, energy-efficient building with cutting edge facilities.
It includes informal learning spaces, a café, rooftop garden, lecture theatre and a courtroom for mock trials. Teaching facilities also include sensory labs, interview rooms and even a Faraday cage, for use by psychology students.
The building is heated by ground source heat pumps, and features solar panels and rainwater harvesting. In a recent survey, 95 per cent of students said Heart of the Campus enhanced their experience, describing it as innovative, modern, spacious, clean, bright, useful, fresh, stylish and open.
Mark Swales, director of estates and facilities at Sheffield Hallam, said: "We're very proud of our Heart of the Campus building, which gives our students high-quality, innovative teaching and learning facilities. It has created a true heart at Collegiate, for students to come together, both socially, and for more structured learning."