University of Edinburgh, The King’s Buildings Nucleus

Designed to be the new heart of the King’s Buildings campus. The Nucleus Building expands undergraduate teaching and provides a variety of different types of learning environments for the university. This building located within the Edinburgh University’s King’s Buildings Campus is a focal point and meeting place for students and staff. It provides an attractive place of study and learning, enhancing the student experience and providing facilities for students and staff to spend more time on campus. The building integrates a range of new, innovative, flexible teaching spaces such as collaborative ‘turn and learn’ lecture theatres allowing modern methods of teaching to take place with large student groups. Flat floor classroom accommodation is provided for diverse class sizes from 60 - 120 students with IT-enabled furniture allowing self-learning and student collaboration in small groups. Easily adaptable flat floor lecture theatres with bleacher seating which can be used for E-Exams, poster presentations and alternative methods of teaching different from traditional lectures. Along with these teaching spaces, there will be a variety of different types of study learning environments for groups or individuals, a chemistry laboratory, social spaces, a café for use by all staff and the student community, break out areas, retail and student services zone for advice and counselling. The Nucleus Building establishes a new major pedestrian route through the campus connecting the existing listed buildings on the northern periphery to the greenspace at the centre and heart of the campus. This creates a vibrant physical environment that cultivates a world leading community of excellence for Science and Engineering teaching, research & industry, integrated proudly into the heart of the local community. Active edges and public uses such as a ground floor cafe help to enliven the heart of the campus while also fostering dynamic links between the different faculties.