A reinvention of the collegiate quadrangle, the new Cohen Quad expands Exeter College’s 700-year-old campus in the heart of Oxford, with undergraduate and graduate living accommodation for 90 students. The 5,500sqm, 4 storey building transforms the historic model of an enclosed, 4-sided quadrangle to an open-sided S-shaped quad organised around 2 new courtyards. Its public rooms are connected with a series of cloisters, amphitheatre, staircases, landings and garden walks. Oxford’s first fully inclusive and barrier-free quad was conceived as a place for social gathering and academic exchange.