Point Campus, Dublin
A student living and amenity development in the Dublin Docklands, featuring 966 student bed spaces, an enterprise center, and retail spaces within two new urban blocks, forming a vibrant new quarter.
- Location Mayor Street Upper, Dublin
- Client O’Flynn Development / Bennett Construction
- Project Student Housing
- Scale 33,520 sqm
The Challenge
Formerly a warehouse location which catered to the industrial storage use of the Docklands, Point Campus is a new piece of city – leaning heavily on the sense of place, it uses traditional materials to connect to its context.
Brick and glazing systems provide individuality and character to each of the blocks while allowing the two buildings to be read as part of the same idiom, rooted in the architectural history of Dublin.
The Story
Dublin’s Docklands is an area undergoing rapid change, with an expansion of the city spearheaded by large scale commercial and living environments.
Point Campus provides much needed student accommodation in an urban regeneration scheme, one of the largest student residences schemes built off campus in the city, which encompasses new public realm and significant amenity space at its ground floor and lower ground floor areas which energise the street and engage meaningfully with the expanding city.
The Outcome
With an emphasis on safe, high quality accommodation in a professionally managed development, the project provides a variety of amenities. The quality and variety of the spaces was key to the developments long term success.
The broad mix of spaces allows for diverse uses and multi-functionality allowing for individual and group spaces; quiet and noisy spaces; active and meditative spaces, music room, gym, yoga studio, cinema, lounge deck, coffee docks, meeting/study rooms, exercise track, contemplative space and roof garden.
