Completion: for the 2013-14 academic year
Project lead: Angela Pater
The Freeman Centre will be refurbished for LPS, which will remain in the Friston building until completion of the project.
The Freeman Centre building will provide a very good standard of accommodation for staff and students – having been built in 2003 as a space for social science. It will include a school office, offices for academic staff, student study space for taught students and PhD students, a computer cluster and teaching rooms.
The intention is for the refurbishment to be completed for the 2013-14 academic year.
The architects responsible for the redesign of the building are ADP: http://www.adp-architecture.com/projects/jubilee-building
Planning permission is currently being applied for the refurbishment of the building to include:
- 6 seminar rooms, a Law Mooting room, a PC cluster room, study space for research students and taught students, with adjacent social space;
- offices for about 100 staff (academic and professional services) and staff meeting room and common room;
- a new entrance, with better access, wider steps and paths, and a refurbished main atrium, which will be opened up to the roof at key points to let light into the building;
- an existing small terrace on the south will be enlarged, and a new small terrace added to the north outside the Law Mooting room.
The audio-visual technology in the teaching space will be state of the art, and we are being advised by an AV consultant.
This page will include updated visuals and further information as the project progresses.
