Our experience in this sector has taught us the importance of the user journey, of situating compact spaces within an ecosystem of carefully targeted amenities designed to provide an array of opportunities for social interaction, work, play and exercise. Placing high-functioning, intimate and beautifully resolved living units full of tactile materials and thoughtful details, within a network of stimulating and considered shared spaces, creates a harmonious balance of privacy and community, anticipating user’s needs and supporting their lives.
Every new site presents a different set of challenges – testing and strengthening the scheme to ensure its design solutions work equally well whether located in a new or existing building, a low rise or an urban tower block. Each building has its own unique cultural context, which we look to respond to and reference in the interior, using materials, colour palette, furniture and lighting to ensure the accommodation plugs seamlessly into the local scene, incorporating its food, art, music and design to create a sensitive, relevant landscape for its students to enjoy.
The Room
The Corridors
The Communal Areas
Creative Direction
Our long-standing relationship with Scape has seen us become custodians of the brand, helping to select architects and designers for future collaborations and overseeing consistent delivery of a high level of quality throughout its international journey. In this role we are part of the project from the very beginning, starting by assessing a site’s potential and feasibility, going on to develop the design strategy and remaining involved to monitor quality of construction.
Scape Shoreditch – Stephen Marshall Architects
Scape Guildford – Ab Rogers Design
Scape Swanston – Denton Corker Marshall
Sustainability Support
Scape Sites – Open
UK
Ireland
Australia
Sydney:
Melbourne:

Scape Lincoln
Architect: Denton Corker Marshall
Status: Completed 2022

Scape Victoria
(concept design work only)
Architect: Denton Corker Marshall up to Stage 3, Plus Architecture from Stage 4
Status: Completed 2024
Brisbane:
Scape Site – In Progress

Scape Kingsway
(Stage 3 submitted)