Rhodes Building, Oriel College Oxford

Rhodes in Review

MBA are currently reviewing the future of the Rhodes Building and looking at improvements to achieve:

• better and more student accommodation
• flexible open plan space at ground floor bringing all the administration functions together which, in future, could be used as teaching spaces
• increased accessibility including the provision of a new lift

as well as maintenance and repairs.

The aim is to allow flexibility for future generations and for the building to function effectively for another 100 years. Conservation principles of minimum intervention, maximum reversibility and new is new will apply. These pages show the options being considered. The aim is that the final proposals will balance the need to conserve historic fabric with the need to provide an efficient and commodious arrangement for the College in C21.

The proposals are shown on five pages below, from which you can access individual drawings.
page 1 - History
page 2
page 3
page 4
page 5

In order to establish the relative need and importance of these aims, we would be grateful for your responses to a questionnaire below. Please do not limit your answers to these issues, but also give us your general views.

The Rhodes Building from Oxford High Street 2008