Keppie Design - Education

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University of West of Scotland
Ayr Campus
Ayr, UK
Client : University of West of Scotland
Value: £72m
Floor Area: 18,000sqm
The Bio Quarter
Edinburgh, UK
Client : Scottish Enterprise
Value: Confidential
Floor Area: 1,500,000 qm
The new £72 million Ayr Campus development is
home to the University of the West of Scotland
(UWS) and the Scottish Agricultural College (SAC).
The campus is a key project in the UWS’ £200
million development plan.
This project explores the idea of Life Long Learning
locating the new University Campus on a riverside
frontage adjacent to Ayrshire College of Further
Education.
Keppie were involved in the development of a
masterplan for the extension of the University of
Edinburgh’s Little France campus. The brief called
for a proposal allowing the University to concentrate
a major part of its teaching and research in the
biomedical and veterinary science field
on a single site.
The underlying concept within the masterplan is on
the collaboration between academia and commercial
research where co-location of function is critical.
The masterplan in total created 16 plots with over
1.5m sq ft of floorspace available. The masterplan had
to accommodate the potential de-centralisation of
the University faculties from the city centre as part of
a strategy to update and enhance the accommodation
for clinical sciences and research based learning.
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