King's College Garden Hostel, Cambridge : Information

King's College Garden Hostel, Cambridge - NRAP Peter Cook/View King's College Garden Hostel, Cambridge: Kings College Garden Hostel is on an exceptionally sensitive site, adjacent to the Colleges Fellows Garden and a 1952 hostel. The building provides 33 student rooms with associated kitchen-common rooms. The form and detail of the building are designed to respond to the context in a number of specific ways. Its footprint is carefully mapped in response to the areas where building is possible without disturbing tree roots: a rectangular extrusion of the north wing of the present building is eroded at its north-east corner and indented at the south-east corner. Where it is possible to build further into the garden the new hostel bulges out in a large timber-clad bay. Generally the building is four storeys high, but the timber bay is only three floors and this allows a roof terrace overlooking the garden with views back towards Kings College Chapel. King's College Garden Hostel Cambridge photo / information from NRAP 050309