in a way, you may not feel like you re in a university building at all. that you re in a structure that kind of is asking you, what you want to do here? we are sitting in the town house at kingston university, which is a building we realised as a result of an riba competition in 2013. the building is surrounded on three sides and that is an urban experience which connects the university back to the town. the university aspired to reveal the activities of the interior of the building to the wider public. i really love being in the foyeru because you watch the buses going up and down and you see people on buses looking in, and they probably say to themselves, what goes on in there? i must come back and have a look some time. for me, the thing that makes town house really special is the combination of things, i suppose it s the light, it s the space, is the views from the building.
as a result of an riba competition in 2013. the building is surrounded on three sides by loggias, and that is an urban experience, which connects the university back to the town. the university aspired to reveal the activities of the interior of the building to the wider public. i really love being in the foyeru, because you watch the buses going up and down and you see people on buses looking in, and they probably say to themselves, what goes on in there? i must come back and have a look some time. for me, the thing that makes town house really special is the combination of things, i suppose it s the light, it s the space, is the views from the building. it s the space, it s the views out from the building. it s quite soft, i think, actually, for a building that is predominantly concrete. it really lends itself to encounters between staff and student, student to students, and that s really important to us, that s the feel we were hoping to create with the building. the ceiling has the