The Exeter College Cohen Quadrangle is a 21st century reinvention of the ‘collegiate quadrangle’, the basis of Oxford’s academic and urban fabric. The Oxford quadrangle is an 800 year old pedagogical model that combines student rooms with teaching spaces, organised around landscaped courtyards. The 6000 m², new-build Cohen Quad expands Exeter College’s 700 year old campus in the heart of Oxford, with undergraduate and graduate living accommodation for 90 students, an auditorium, seminar rooms, archive, café, roof terraces, offices, fellows’ accommodation and Oxford University’s first dedicated social learning space. This complex building was designed within a highly constrained Conservation Area site and Grade II Listed Building context, to deliver Oxford’s first fully inclusive and barrier free quad. Our over-riding concept of a ‘scholarly home’ is characterised by an all-embracing stainless steel shingle roof, marking the new building on Oxford’s skyline.