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St John's College, Oxford

Oxford

Project Details

New Build

Practice

Wright & Wright Architects LLP

89-91 Bayham Street , LONDON , NW1 0AG

The new plan reinstates the spirit of the original geometric sequence finding a new way into the Laudian Library via an existing door into a half forgotten slice of left over ground floor space known as the Otranto Passage. This now slopes gently up to a new staircase at the end. From this high space a connection will be made at first floor level to a new Study centre tucked into a convenient curved set back to the high 17th century garden wall outside which will also make a lint between the original college buildings and the 20th and 21st century additions to the north and contain a lift accessing old and new buildings alike.