BDP wins design for Cardiff and Vale College
BDP has won the competition to design the £23m, 16,000 sq m Cardiff City Centre Community Campus for Cardiff and Vale College. The college is one of the largest in Wales, serving Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, and this project brings together many of the college’s activities on to a single campus in the heart of the city.
The design will create a real-life environment for skills training. Open faculty clusters will be set around a public route through centre of the college. The building's distinctive wedge shape means interior spaces are connected to south-facing terraces with views towards Cardiff Bay. The over-sailing roof is angled to accommodate a 1,850 sq m photovoltaic array, with a restaurant located under the northernmost tip, with views across the city.
BDP is appointed as architect, interior designer and landscape architect for the building, which is due to start on site in August.
