ARC Building

The ARC, the Architecture Research Centre, is home to the Department of Architecture. It moved here in the autumn of 2010, into a former shoe factory converted for the purpose by the architecture office of Associate Professor Yiorgos Hadjichristou, so the building is itself a lesson in giving an old structure a new life.

What Is Inside

The ground floor has ten design studios, two for each year of study, arranged around a central amphitheatre, together with a library, two conference rooms, a cafeteria and the faculty offices. The studios open into one another, so the whole floor can become a single space for reviews, lectures and exhibitions. The computer lab and printing room are on the mezzanine, and the fabrication workshop, with its tools for model making and digital fabrication, is in the basement.

At the end of each year the studios become an exhibition of the students' projects.