Low-Carbon Student Housing Crescents

Architectural studio Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios designs the new range of student housing made in the shape of a crescent with a CLT structure at the University of Cambridge, specifically for its King's College. It boasts the name Stephen Taylor Court and the entire block features 84 homes for fellows and graduate students made to Passivhaus standards in order to achieve a low carbon impact.

Hugo Marrack, partner at Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios tells Dezeen that "Due to the considered material choice, prioritising low-embodied carbon materials, reuse of existing materials, local sourcing and targeting recycled content, and accounting for carbon sequestered in the cross-laminated timber, the project has negative embodied carbon on completion as more carbon has been sequestered in its production than emitted."

Image Credit: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios