Engineering value

摘要

The student residence is an in-between building type, straddling housing and tertiary education. As such, some developers find it a useful stop-gap for those tricky sites where standards applicable to other uses are prohibitive. Case in point, developer Argent ran various options ranging from offices to mixed-use for a site at the northern extremity of its King's Cross Central estate, having earmarked it as a high-rise marker point, and concluded that student digs were the most viable. Glenn Howells Architects won the competition to work up proposals for the site - part of Allies and Morrison's masterplan - alongside student housing provider Urbanest, to a brief stipulating high-quality accommodation its occupants would take pride in.