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Architecture Building of Emmanuel College, Queen’s Building, Cambridge by Hopkins Architects. A site was successfully created for the new performance space required by the College, at the rear of the College near the Master’s Lodge. The Queen’s building is a three-storey, freestanding oval shape.

Emmanuel College, Queen's Building, Cambridge - Hopkins Architects

At its heart is a double height D-shaped auditorium, with steeply raked seating for 120.  A narrow gallery overlooks the performance space from the upper level. Three apsidal reception rooms occupy the other end of the oval. The ground floor of the building is completely surrounded by a colonnade and a passage way cuts across it, off which is the entrance to the upper floors, via a stone spiral staircase.

Emmanuel College, Queen's Building, Cambridge - Hopkins Architects

The external facade of Ketton limestone, as used by Wren for the nearby college chapel, is a frame structure of piers and flat arches, infilled by big windows and non-loadbearing stone panels.  The piers are pre-stressed and post-tensioned by hidden steel rods, structurally equivalent to the buttresses and pinnacles of a medieval church. In the auditorium the supporting roof structure of composite stainless steel and timber trusses is revealed.  The same stone and timber are used on both the exterior and interior.  All colours and textures are natural and integral.

Emmanuel College, Queen's Building, Cambridge - Hopkins Architects

For more information, please visit Hopkins Architects website.

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