PROJECT: University of Liverpool Masterplan

LOCATION: Liverpool

DATE: 2003

Despite regular reviews of their 1949 Holford masterplan, the physical environment of the city centre campus had slowly deteriorated. Prospective students were discouraged by the cars in every corner of the campus, chaotic street furniture and scruffy landscape.

We were commissioned to produce a masterplan for developing the campus, bringing student housing into the centre of Liverpool, a public realm strategy and a review of possible uses for Waterhouse' s original Victoria Building.

We identified many development sites, most currently occupied by cars, that would strengthen the University's urban presence and suggested opening up the departmental fortresses and sharing common facilities. We proposed a new public front door to the University with a pedestrian entrance court and drop-off opposite the landmark Metropolitan Cathedral.