Client: University of Portsmouth, Anglesea Building
Value: Phase 1 - £750,000 | Phase 2 - £800,000 | Phase 3 - £650,000
Location: Portsmouth, Hampshire

University of Portsmouth, Anglesea Building

The first project in this building was a two-phase refurbishment to upgrade circulation zones and provide new toilet facilities, meeting, office, teaching and social spaces, bringing a 1950’s building into the 21st century.

Phase 1 rationalised existing spaces by freeing up under-utilised areas and formed an Internet access zone and lounge area, generating a sense of ‘place’ at the heart of the building. Phase 2 carried on similar themes with improvements to internal and external circulation areas and the main thoroughfare linking the University’s Guildhall Campus to Lion Terrace.

The aims of the scheme were based around providing the University with a dynamic and vibrant interior whilst exemplifying modern materials symbolic of a technological area. In conjunction with the bright use of colour and feature lighting, galvanised wall cladding was used to define focal and circulation zones.

A further project in this building, to be completed over the summer of 2009, is the creation of a Mock Court facility as an aid to the training of law students and others involved in the legal system. This will include a courtroom designed on standard Crown Court principles with state of the art audio-visual systems, together with a variety of teaching and support facilities.