oxford brookes centre for sustainable development
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10architect: reenie (karin) elliott, francois girardin and ray ogden
building type+location: oxford brookes university centre for sustainable development, headington, oxford, england
invisible elements:
- second prototype for active air cooling system, which ray ogden researched with corus (formerly british steel). chilled air is pushed through a steel hollow section structure. passive cooling systems were found to have unworkably slow response rates due to the greater thermal mass of concrete
- the programme incorporates a library of vernacular architecture, a lecture theatre, research laboratories, and an exhibition space
completion date: planning 1998