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Following on from these high impact developments, the campus saw several smaller developments: Clarkson House, a small halls of residence suitable for disabled students and now the Early Years Centre, opened in 1978 just south of the Administration building and partly funded by the British Council for the Disabled, the Clarkson Foundation and the [[Department of Health and Social Security]].<ref>Nash and Sherwood, p. 82.</ref> New facilities for Engineering were being constructed behind housing (now demolished) in University Crescent and were all of the industrial nature: the R. J. Mitchell Wind Tunnel was relocated from [[RAE Farnborough|Farnborough]] and reconstructed in 1981, the A B Woods underwater laboratory in 1989<ref>{{cite web|title=A B Woods Laboratory|url=http://data.southampton.ac.uk/building/8.html?facilities|publisher=University of Southampton|accessdate=12 February 2014}}</ref> and the Tony Davies High Voltage Laboratory in 1991.<ref>{{cite web|title=High Voltage Laboratory|url=http://data.southampton.ac.uk/building/20.html|publisher=University of Southampton|accessdate=12 February 2014}}</ref> The final building from this period was a small addition located on Burgess Road next to the Oceanography building. Now housing some of ECS, it opened in 1989 and was designed by Sheppard Robson.<ref>{{cite web|title=Building 16|url=http://data.southampton.ac.uk/building/16.html|publisher=University of Southampton|accessdate=12 February 2014}}</ref>
Following on from these high impact developments, the campus saw several smaller developments: Clarkson House, a small halls of residence suitable for disabled students and now the Early Years Centre, opened in 1978 just south of the Administration building and partly funded by the British Council for the Disabled, the Clarkson Foundation and the [[Department of Health and Social Security]].<ref>Nash and Sherwood, p. 82.</ref> New facilities for Engineering were being constructed behind housing (now demolished) in University Crescent and were all of the industrial nature: the R. J. Mitchell Wind Tunnel was relocated from [[RAE Farnborough|Farnborough]] and reconstructed in 1981, the A B Woods underwater laboratory in 1989<ref>{{cite web|title=A B Woods Laboratory|url=http://data.southampton.ac.uk/building/8.html?facilities|publisher=University of Southampton|accessdate=12 February 2014}}</ref> and the Tony Davies High Voltage Laboratory in 1991.<ref>{{cite web|title=High Voltage Laboratory|url=http://data.southampton.ac.uk/building/20.html|publisher=University of Southampton|accessdate=12 February 2014}}</ref> The final building from this period was a small addition located on Burgess Road next to the Oceanography building. Now housing some of ECS, it opened in 1989 and was designed by Sheppard Robson.<ref>{{cite web|title=Building 16|url=http://data.southampton.ac.uk/building/16.html|publisher=University of Southampton|accessdate=12 February 2014}}</ref>


===1990s+===
===1990s-present===
[[File:HartleyLibraryRear.JPG|thumb|right|The extension to the Hartley Library.]]
[[File:Building 32 - Southampton University.jpg|thumb|right|The EEE building.]]
[[File:ZeplerMountbattenHDR.jpg|thumb|right|The 2008 built Mountbatten building on the left and the 1998 built Zepler building on the right.]]
[[File:Soton Life Sciences.jpg|thumb|right|The Life Sciences building.]]
Following the slow pace of capital development projects during the previous decade, projects started again at the end of the 1980s. The first building of the new decade to be completed was the new Mountbatten building, allowing the [[School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton|Electronics and Computer Science department]] to move out of the Engineering accommodation. Completed in 1991 it was designed by the John S Bonnington Partnership<ref>{{cite web|title=University of Southampton Electronics Building|url=http://www.jsbp.com/projects/edu/edu_Electronics.htm|publisher=John S Bonnington Partnership|accessdate=13 February 2014}}</ref>, Basil Spence's former practice and who had worked on the campus buildings since the 1960s<ref>{{cite web|title=UK and Overseas Projects: Education|url=http://www.jsbp.com/profile/proj_edu.htm|publisher=John S Bonnington Partnership|accessdate=13 February 2014}}</ref>, and featured a design of [[aluminium]] cladding for the building that proved controversial.<ref>Nash and Sherwood, p. 273.</ref>


That same year a Highfield Planning Group was formed under the direction of Professor [[Tim Holt (statistician)|Tim Holt]] to oversee how the University and the campus could develop further, given that the new Mountbatten building had used the last of the University's building plots.<ref>Nash and Sherwood, p. 274.</ref> As the University had now exceeded the Master Plan set out by Sir Basil Spence set out in the late 1950s, a new one had to be developed, so the University approached Chesterton Consulting to devise a new one.<ref>Nash and Sherwood, p. 274.</ref> These new plans had to satisfy the planning laws on parking that required a certain number of new spaces for every development, requiring the plan to include three [[multi-storey car park]]s and a reconfiguration of University Road.<ref>Nash and Sherwood, p. 276.</ref> None of these eventually occurred as the University and the Consultancy lobbied the council and were able to change the guidance to allow further development to be easier.<ref>Nash and Sherwood, p. 276.</ref>
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http://www.jsbp.com/profile/proj_edu.htm


TO cement the end of Spence's master plan the next new building to be constructed on campus, the University Health Service in 1992, breached one of Spence's fundamental principles by blocking the flow of vegetation linking the western gardens with the [[Southampton Common|common]].<ref>Nash and Sherwood, p. 273.</ref> The new master plan also saw the expansion of the University onto the new [[Avenue Campus]], resulting in the Arts subjects to move to that new campus. As a result, the Arts buildings were vacated and it led to several departments changing buildings around 1995 and allowing the refurbishment of several of the 1960s building stock.<ref>Nash and Sherwood, p. 278.</ref> In addition, a programme of new building works commenced: the Health Professional and Rehabilitation Sciences building was built in the North East corner of the campus in 1994 and featured a modern design by [[Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank|Sir Norman Foster]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Health Profs & Rehab Sciences|url=http://data.southampton.ac.uk/building/45.html|publisher=University of Southampton|accessdate=13 February 2014}}</ref>; the Students' Union Retail Centre was added in 1995/6 and completed the side of a new social square outside the Union, all constructed and landscaped by London practice [[Allies and Morrison]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Students' Union Extension, Southampton University|url=http://www.alliesandmorrison.com/projects/education/1995/students-union-extension/|publisher=Allies and Morrison|accessdate=13 February 2014}}</ref>; the Social Sciences Graduate Centre in 1997 (accompanying the Murray building)<ref>{{cite web|title=Building 58A|url=http://data.southampton.ac.uk/building/58A.html|publisher=University of Southampton|accessdate=13 February 2014}}</ref> and the long awaited Synthetic Chemistry building which was located adjacent to the existing chemistry buildings, replacing some older and smaller buildings on the site and thereby closing off Engineering Square, and was built between 1996 and 1998 according to the design of London architects the Wilson Mason Partnership.<ref>{{cite web|title=Synthetic Chemistry Building|url=http://www.wilsonmason.co.uk/projectdetail.php?p=74&s=1|publisher=Wilson Mason|accessdate=13 February 2014}}</ref>
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A new masterplan for the Highfield campus was drawn up in 1998 by renowned architect [[Rick Mather]] who has also contributed some of the newer buildings.{{Citation needed|date=October 2007}} The campus has expanded rapidly over the last decade, with many notable new buildings including one designed by [[Norman Foster (architect)|Norman Foster]].{{Citation needed|date=October 2007}} Construction of the EEE (Electronics, Education and Entrance) building started in December 2005<ref>[http://www.bulletin.soton.ac.uk/1206/front.htm New gateway to the University under construction] dated 9-Dec-2005</ref> and completed at the end of January 2007.<ref>[http://www.wessexscene.co.uk/article.php?sid=2014 Reduced to Bolders and Wood?] EEE building completion mentioned in paragraph 6, dated 23-Feb-2007</ref> The refurbishment of the EEE building was 'topped out' on 9 May 2007.<ref>[http://www.bulletin.soton.ac.uk/1226/fronta.htm University celebrates EEE ‘topping out’]</ref>


The numbering of these buildings, while seemingly random, was based on a decision made to help encourage communication and cooperation, a strategy still in place today as reaffirmed by the latest Life Sciences building, building 85, surrounded by buildings 32, 20, 8 and 17.<ref>[http://www.southampton.ac.uk/visitus/campuses/maps/highfield_3d_key.pdf]</ref>


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http://www.rickmather.com/project/category/university_of_southampton_masterplan
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The campus retains an area of parkland in which are scattered 20th century sculptures by [[Barbara Hepworth]],<ref>Penelope Curtis, ''Barbara Hepworth''. [[Tate Gallery|Tate]] Publishing, ISBN 1-85437-225-4.
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</ref><ref>Barbara Hepworth, ''Hepworth, Barbara: A Pictorial Autobiography''. [[Tate Publishing Ltd|Tate Publishing]], ISBN 1-85437-149-5.</ref> F.E. McWilliams, Justin Knowles, Nick Pope and John Edwards.


https://web.archive.org/web/20070927000159/http://www.wessexscene.co.uk/article.php?sid=2014


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A new masterplan for the Highfield campus was drawn up in 1998 by renowned architect [[Rick Mather]] who has also contributed some of the newer buildings.{{Citation needed|date=October 2007}} The campus has expanded rapidly over the last decade, with many notable new buildings including one designed by [[Norman Foster (architect)|Norman Foster]].{{Citation needed|date=October 2007}} Construction of the EEE (Electronics, Education and Entrance) building started in December 2005<ref>[http://www.bulletin.soton.ac.uk/1206/front.htm New gateway to the University under construction] dated 9-Dec-2005</ref> and completed at the end of January 2007.<ref>[http://www.wessexscene.co.uk/article.php?sid=2014 Reduced to Bolders and Wood?] EEE building completion mentioned in paragraph 6, dated 23-Feb-2007</ref> The refurbishment of the EEE building was 'topped out' on 9 May 2007.<ref>[http://www.bulletin.soton.ac.uk/1226/fronta.htm University celebrates EEE ‘topping out’]</ref>
The university's main campus is located in the residential area of [[Highfield, Hampshire|Highfield]]. Opened on 20 June 1914, the site was initially used as a military hospital during World War I. The campus grew gradually, mainly consisting of detailed red brick buildings (such as the Hartley library and West building of the Students' Union) designed by [[Sir Giles Gilbert Scott]].<ref>Gavin Stamp, 'Giles Gilbert Scott' in ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'', Oxford University Press, 2004.</ref> In 1956, Sir [[Basil Spence]] was commissioned to prepare a masterplan of the campus for the foreseeable future.<ref name=nash22>{{Cite book|last=Nash|first=Sally|coauthors=Martin Sherwood|title=University of Southampton : An Illustrated History|publisher=James and James|location=London|year=2002|pages=272–281|chapter=Building a Vision|isbn=0-907383-94-7}}</ref> This included incorporating the University Road, that split the {{convert|59|acre|m2|adj=on}} campus in two and the quarry of Sir [[Sidney Kimber]]'s brickyard that itself was split by a stream. Unable to remove the road and the private houses along it, Spence designed many of the buildings facing away from it, using contemporary designs working in concrete, glass and mosaic.<ref name="nash22"/> During recent decades, new buildings were added that contravened the master plan of Spence, such as the Synthetic Chemistry Building and Mountbatten Building (the latter of which was destroyed by fire in 2005).


During recent decades, new buildings were added that contravened the master plan of Spence, such as the Synthetic Chemistry Building and Mountbatten Building (the latter of which was destroyed by fire in 2005).
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A new masterplan for the Highfield campus was drawn up in 1998 by [[Rick Mather]], who proposed that the University Road should become a tree-lined boulevard backed by white-rendered buildings. He also contributed some of the newer buildings such as the Zepler and Gower Buildings. In 1991, the Highfield Planning Group was formed within the university under the chairmanship of [[Tim Holt (statistician)|Tim Holt]]. This led to the development of new buildings such as the Jubilee Sports Hall, Student Services Building and the [[Institute of Sound and Vibration Research]]. In addition, existing buildings, such as the Hartley Library, were extensively renovated and extended.


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A new masterplan for the Highfield campus was drawn up in 1998 by [[Rick Mather]], who proposed that the University Road should become a tree-lined boulevard backed by white-rendered buildings. He also contributed some of the newer buildings such as the Zepler and Gower Buildings. In 1991, the Highfield Planning Group was formed within the university under the chairmanship of . This led to the development of new buildings such as the Jubilee Sports Hall, Student Services Building and the [[Institute of Sound and Vibration Research]]. In addition, existing buildings, such as the Hartley Library, were extensively renovated and extended.
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The campus retains an area of parkland in which are scattered 20th-century sculptures by [[Barbara Hepworth]],<ref>Penelope Curtis, ''Barbara Hepworth''. Tate Publishing, ISBN 1-85437-225-4</ref><ref>Barbara Hepworth, ''Hepworth, Barbara: A Pictorial Autobiography''. Tate Publishing, ISBN 1-85437-149-5.</ref> Justin Knowles, Nick Pope and John Edwards. It also houses the [[John Hansard Gallery]], the Nuffield Theatre and the Turner Sims Concert Hall.


===Services===


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The campus retains an area of parkland in which are scattered 20th-century sculptures by [[Barbara Hepworth]],<ref>Penelope Curtis, ''Barbara Hepworth''. Tate Publishing, ISBN 1-85437-225-4</ref><ref>Barbara Hepworth, ''Hepworth, Barbara: A Pictorial Autobiography''. Tate Publishing, ISBN 1-85437-149-5.</ref> Justin Knowles, Nick Pope and John Edwards. It also houses the [[John Hansard Gallery]], the Nuffield Theatre and the Turner Sims Concert Hall.

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The campus retains an area of parkland in which are scattered 20th century sculptures by [[Barbara Hepworth]],<ref>Penelope Curtis, ''Barbara Hepworth''. [[Tate Gallery|Tate]] Publishing, ISBN 1-85437-225-4.
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</ref><ref>Barbara Hepworth, ''Hepworth, Barbara: A Pictorial Autobiography''. [[Tate Publishing Ltd|Tate Publishing]], ISBN 1-85437-149-5.</ref> F.E. McWilliams, Justin Knowles, Nick Pope and John Edwards.


==Location==
==Location==

Revision as of 00:09, 14 February 2014


Highfield Campus is the main campus of the University of Southampton and is located in Southampton, southern England. It is the largest of the University's campuses with most of the students studying there. The campus is also the location of the main university library, the students' union as well as sports facilities.

History

Early 20th century

The University's predecessor the Hartley Institute first bought the Highfield site in June 1909 at the cost of £5,000 (£500,000 in 2014[1]).[2] Their old premises on the High Street no longer met the requirements of the Board of Education and the Treasury and so a new site was required for the College to expand.[2][3]

The first campus buildings were opened on the 20 June 1914 by the Lord Chancellor, Viscout Haldane.[4][3] However soon after moving, the two buildings were handed over by the college authorities to the army for use throughout the First World War as a military hospital, with the college students and staff using the old High Street buildings until 1919.[4] The campus was opened after the war in October 1919 with the college using two buildings (now forming part of the Hartley Library) which housed classes and laboratory facilities for the three hundred students.[5] Due to difficulties in selling them on for a reasonable price, the High Street premises remained part of the college until the mid 1930s when they were sold for a combined total of £8,000.[6]

Inter-war and 1940s

The Turner Sims building, built in 1935.

By the end of the 1930s the College had expanded to nearly 1,000 students, requiring further buildings to be constructed. Those that were constructed were designed by Colonel R. T, Gutteridge and his firm, made of brick. However despite this the college still made use of wooden temporary buildings, constructed during the First world war, and which were used as laboratories, plant houses and teaching buildings for the Geology, Music and Arts department right up until the 1960s.[7] Due to lacking finances, and the more pressing need for accomodation, any new buildings constructed during this period were the result of legacies: the George Moore Botanical Laboratories were constructed in 1927 (later housed the Careers Advice service[8][9] and demolished in 2011[10]) and the Zoology building in 1931 (Now the EScience building[11]) was the result of an anonymous donation of £8,000.[12] The social experience was also improved with the creation of an assembly hall in the 1920s large enough to house the student population.[13]

During the late 1930s and 40s the university college again started to run out of room and so needed to improve their estate. New teaching buildings were constructed for Chemistry in 1937[14], Physics (Now occupied by the Estate department) in 1938[15] and Engineering in 1939.[16] In addition, the Turner Sims library was built in 1935 following a donation of £24,250 (£1,460,500 in 2012) from the daughters of Edward Turner Sims.[5] It was designed by Gutteridge and Gutteridge, with Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, and plugged the gap intentionally left between the original two buildings with library facilities, seminar rooms and a new reception for the university college.[17][18]

The West Building, built in 1939.

All of these buildings had been constructed on the eastern side of University Road but in 1939 the Western side of the campus was developed with the construction of the West Building in 1939/40.[19] Built on the site of Sir Sidney Kimber's brickyard, the building housed the refectory, common rooms and the Students' Union and was further extended to include an assembly hall, suitable for performances and examinations, in 1948.[20] Following the war, much of the University's capital budget went into purchasing new land, including the brickworks behind the West Building.[21] At the same time the Institute of Education was given its own building in 1948[22], extensions were made to the Zoology building and the remainder of the Chemistry building completed.[23]

1950s and Basil Spence masterplan

The John Hansard Gallery building, built in 1957 to house a tidal model of Southampton Water.

Following the creation of the University by royal charter in 1952, numbers at the University were set to increase again to around 2,500 by the mid 1960s. As a result, the university estate needed to expand and the inadequate facilities needed to be replaced. The end of the 1950s saw an explosion of building work in a whole variety of styles. On the West site, a new computer building was built in 1958 and a Tidal model of Southampton Water constructed in 1957 (now the John Hansard Gallery[24]), both designed by Ronald Sims.[25] In addition, Gutteridge and Gutteridge were undertaking several extensions to pre-existing buidings: the Physics building in 1960, the Education building in 1961 and the Library in 1959.[25] Whereas the first two extensions were in the same style as the earlier building, the new Gurney-Dixon library extension was built in a modernist style, linking the three main buildings together and providing space for 150,000 books and 400 readers.[26]

The Tizard building, built in 1959, is typical of the Spence-designed buildings.

The remaining buildings were built under the direction of Sir Basil Spence, who was appointed as Consultant Architect in 1956. All of the buildings designed by him used mainly concrete and glass wrapped in mosaic and were each centred around a focal area either to the east or west of University Road, ignoring the road in doing so.[27] The first buildings were completed in 1959 and included the Froude building[28], built for Social Sciences and located in the centre of Engineering Square, and the Lanchester[29] and Tizard[30] buildings for the Engineering, Electronics and Aerospace studies, located on the north of the square and connected to the pre-existing engineering facilities.[25] The following year the extension of the west building was completed and linked in with a new Senior Common Room (now known as the Staff Social Centre).[31][19]

The Faraday Tower, completed in 1963.

As a new decade dawned construction work started to become dominated by two large tower structures: the Graham Hills tower[32], built over 1960 and 1961, providing accommodation for Chemistry in the south east corner of Engineering Square and the Faraday tower[33], built between 1960 and 1963, for Engineering in the north east corner of Engineering Square.

The next building to be completed was the Arts building[34] (now the Law school) and adjoining Nuffield Theatre.[35] Built between 1961 and 1963, the building allowed the Arts faculty to leave the central building for the first time and expand. Adjacent to Arts 1 is the Mathematics tower, built between 1963 and 1965 by Ronald Sims in the brutalist style and thus is notably different from the buildings around it with exposed concrete.[36] Also around the same time, Oceanography received a new building north of the campus on Burgess Road (now housing part of Electronics and Computer Science since 1996), which was completed in 1965 and designed in brick by the Sheppard Robson Partnership.

The pace continued with three buildings completed in close proximity in 1966 along the southern edge of the west side of the campus. These buildings were notable in that their layout differed from the plans laid out by Basil Spence a decade earlier, although the styling remained the same. These are the Physics building[37], complete with observatory, the Geology building (now renamed the Shackleton building and housing Geography and Psychology since 1996)[38][39] and the Students' Union building.[40]

The final buildings matching the style of the Basil Spence Masterplan were the Arts II building (now Management and Music since 1996), built in 1968[41], a further extension to the Engineering accommodation in the form of the Wolfson and Raleigh buildings that same year[42] and the Murray building, housing the Social Sciences departments, in 1975.[43]

1970s and 1980s

The Turner Sims Concert Hall was purpose built in 1974.

Development slowed during the 1970s and 1980s as economic problems started to bite and it was during this period that the design concepts of the Basil Spence plan started to be dropped in favour of more conventional styles such as brick. The long awaited Administration building, designed again by the Sheppard Robson Partnership[44], was constructed south of the library in 1970[45] and allowed these departments to move out of the main library building for the first time.[46] This was followed in 1974 with the long awaited opening of the Turner Sims Concert Hall. Resulting from a £30,000 bequest from Margaret Grassam Sims for this purpose, the new concert hall would allow music performances to move out of the increasingly busy Nuffield Theatre and into an environment specifically designed for music. The design of the hall itself was by staff from the University's Institute of Sound and Vibration Research ensuring the hall's good acoustics.

Following on from these high impact developments, the campus saw several smaller developments: Clarkson House, a small halls of residence suitable for disabled students and now the Early Years Centre, opened in 1978 just south of the Administration building and partly funded by the British Council for the Disabled, the Clarkson Foundation and the Department of Health and Social Security.[47] New facilities for Engineering were being constructed behind housing (now demolished) in University Crescent and were all of the industrial nature: the R. J. Mitchell Wind Tunnel was relocated from Farnborough and reconstructed in 1981, the A B Woods underwater laboratory in 1989[48] and the Tony Davies High Voltage Laboratory in 1991.[49] The final building from this period was a small addition located on Burgess Road next to the Oceanography building. Now housing some of ECS, it opened in 1989 and was designed by Sheppard Robson.[50]

1990s-present

The extension to the Hartley Library.
The EEE building.
The 2008 built Mountbatten building on the left and the 1998 built Zepler building on the right.
The Life Sciences building.

Following the slow pace of capital development projects during the previous decade, projects started again at the end of the 1980s. The first building of the new decade to be completed was the new Mountbatten building, allowing the Electronics and Computer Science department to move out of the Engineering accommodation. Completed in 1991 it was designed by the John S Bonnington Partnership[51], Basil Spence's former practice and who had worked on the campus buildings since the 1960s[52], and featured a design of aluminium cladding for the building that proved controversial.[53]

That same year a Highfield Planning Group was formed under the direction of Professor Tim Holt to oversee how the University and the campus could develop further, given that the new Mountbatten building had used the last of the University's building plots.[54] As the University had now exceeded the Master Plan set out by Sir Basil Spence set out in the late 1950s, a new one had to be developed, so the University approached Chesterton Consulting to devise a new one.[55] These new plans had to satisfy the planning laws on parking that required a certain number of new spaces for every development, requiring the plan to include three multi-storey car parks and a reconfiguration of University Road.[56] None of these eventually occurred as the University and the Consultancy lobbied the council and were able to change the guidance to allow further development to be easier.[57]

TO cement the end of Spence's master plan the next new building to be constructed on campus, the University Health Service in 1992, breached one of Spence's fundamental principles by blocking the flow of vegetation linking the western gardens with the common.[58] The new master plan also saw the expansion of the University onto the new Avenue Campus, resulting in the Arts subjects to move to that new campus. As a result, the Arts buildings were vacated and it led to several departments changing buildings around 1995 and allowing the refurbishment of several of the 1960s building stock.[59] In addition, a programme of new building works commenced: the Health Professional and Rehabilitation Sciences building was built in the North East corner of the campus in 1994 and featured a modern design by Sir Norman Foster[60]; the Students' Union Retail Centre was added in 1995/6 and completed the side of a new social square outside the Union, all constructed and landscaped by London practice Allies and Morrison[61]; the Social Sciences Graduate Centre in 1997 (accompanying the Murray building)[62] and the long awaited Synthetic Chemistry building which was located adjacent to the existing chemistry buildings, replacing some older and smaller buildings on the site and thereby closing off Engineering Square, and was built between 1996 and 1998 according to the design of London architects the Wilson Mason Partnership.[63]


http://www.rickmather.com/project/category/university_of_southampton_masterplan

https://web.archive.org/web/20070927000159/http://www.wessexscene.co.uk/article.php?sid=2014

A new masterplan for the Highfield campus was drawn up in 1998 by renowned architect Rick Mather who has also contributed some of the newer buildings.[citation needed] The campus has expanded rapidly over the last decade, with many notable new buildings including one designed by Norman Foster.[citation needed] Construction of the EEE (Electronics, Education and Entrance) building started in December 2005[64] and completed at the end of January 2007.[65] The refurbishment of the EEE building was 'topped out' on 9 May 2007.[66]

During recent decades, new buildings were added that contravened the master plan of Spence, such as the Synthetic Chemistry Building and Mountbatten Building (the latter of which was destroyed by fire in 2005).

A new masterplan for the Highfield campus was drawn up in 1998 by Rick Mather, who proposed that the University Road should become a tree-lined boulevard backed by white-rendered buildings. He also contributed some of the newer buildings such as the Zepler and Gower Buildings. In 1991, the Highfield Planning Group was formed within the university under the chairmanship of . This led to the development of new buildings such as the Jubilee Sports Hall, Student Services Building and the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research. In addition, existing buildings, such as the Hartley Library, were extensively renovated and extended.

Services

The campus retains an area of parkland in which are scattered 20th-century sculptures by Barbara Hepworth,[67][68] Justin Knowles, Nick Pope and John Edwards. It also houses the John Hansard Gallery, the Nuffield Theatre and the Turner Sims Concert Hall.

The campus retains an area of parkland in which are scattered 20th century sculptures by Barbara Hepworth,[69][70] F.E. McWilliams, Justin Knowles, Nick Pope and John Edwards.

Location

The Uni-link Interchange located in the centre of campus.

The campus is located in the Highfield area of Southampton and is bordered by Southampton Common along its western edge and Burgess Road on its northern edge. It is dissected by the north/south University Road, splitting the campus into East and West sections. The area surrounding the campus is mainly residential in nature.

The campus is served by the Uni-link U1, U2, U6 and U9 routes that connect the campus to the Airport, Wessex Lane, Glen Eyre and other halls of residence, the City Centre and the University's satellite campuses at Southampton General Hospital and the National Oceanography Centre. All routes stop at the Uni-link interchange in the centre of campus.[71] In addition to the Uni-link services, the interchange is also served by National Express Coaches 032 and 203 to London and Portsmouth.[71]

See also

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