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The new buildings – a Mathematical Institute building, designed by Rafael Viñoly Architects, and a Humanities Building and Library, designed by Bennetts Associates – will provide cutting-edge research and teaching facilities and, in both subject areas, bring together in one place a number of centres and faculties that are currently scattered around the city.
The ROQ is a 10-acre site in central Oxford, bound by the Woodstock Road, Somerville College, Walton Street, Observatory Street, and Green Templeton College, and will accommodate new teaching and learning space for the University over the next 20 years.
Rafael Viñoly Architects’ new Mathematical Institute building will be the main workplace for more than 500 academics and support staff, as well as the centre for the academic life of approximately 1,000 undergraduates and a diverse community of college research fellows and lecturers.
The scheme provides the opportunity to accommodate the growing population of the Mathematical Institute – who currently work in three separate locations – in a modern, high performance building that respects and enhances the setting of the adjoining historic buildings.
The new Humanities Building and Library, designed by Bennetts Associates, will form the centrepiece of the ROQ development. The first phase brings together four faculties – English, History, Theology and Philosophy – and will provide state of the art library and teaching facilities as well as research, administrative space and academic offices. Rab Bennetts, Director of Bennetts Associates, said: ‘Our intention has been to create a group of complementary buildings that echo the grain and texture of Oxford. The backdrop of faculty buildings provides the setting for two new ‘quads’, with the library lantern as the counterpoint to the Grade 1 listed Radcliffe Observatory.
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