Campus facilities and build
“Our UCL East buildings will provide facilities for cross-disciplinary research and open innovation, new approaches to practical learning, opportunities for public engagement, and student living spaces that are modern and sustainable."
Professor Paola Lettieri, Director, UCL East

UCL East campus

Marshgate - opens in 2023

One Pool Street - open

One Pool Street - reception

One Pool Street - moving in

Student bedroom

Student kitchen/living area

One Pool Street - 1st floor

One Pool Street - classroom

Connected Environments lab

Light fabrication workshop

One Pool Street - cinema

One Pool Street Shop

One Pool Street Shop
One Pool Street - opened in 2022
The building now known as One Pool Street (previously Pool Street West) features a range of uses, including student accommodation, academic, retail, community and public engagement uses.
The design of One Pool Street encourages innovative academic programming, as well as a range of events and activities. Performances, exhibitions, workshops and lectures will contribute to a lively and creative learning atmosphere. In addition to a centre for Robotics & Autonomous Systems, it houses the Urban Room, a major public and community space, but also School for Creative and Cultural Industries spaces - namely, a Slade studio and a London Memory Workshop. Meanwhile, the People and Nature Lab uses the Park as a 'living lab', and the Global Disability Innovation Hub is moving there from its current home at Here East.
The lower levels of the building also feature a range of retail and food and drink units to cater to both the public and UCL students and staff.
Marshgate - opening in 2023
The building currently known as Marshgate will feature predominantly academic uses, but will also include retail, community and engagement uses.
At the heart of the building is a central atrium that is openly accessible to encourage inclusivity and community engagement, with the use of 'Fluid Zones' at ground and first floor level to draw people into the building. Floor space above these levels has been designed to encourage collaboration and engagement between academic uses through largely open plan and circulatory spaces.
Marshgate will house spaces for the Engineering at UCL East, the Advanced Propulsion Lab, the Manufacturing Futures Lab, the Urban and Built Environment Co-Labs, as well as the Institute of Finance and Technology and the Global Business School for Health, which will cater to leading professionals' needs. The Institute of Making, a multidisciplinary research club for those interested in the made world, will also occupy space on the ground and first floor levels; as will the School for Creative and Cultural Industries, which will comprise a media lab, an object-based learning laboratory, and a suite of conservation facilities.
UCL East campus in 9 key numbers
- Our total site will be 180,000 sqm (40% the size of Bloomsbury Campus)
- Equivalent to 7 Wembley football pitches
- Two buildings with 50,000 sqm (phase 1)
- A car free site with approx 1,500 cycle spaces
- 560 sqm of green roof on One Pool Street
- 1,000 sqm of solar panels on our Marshgate building will generate clean, renewable energy
- 5,500 people engaged through over 60 public consultations, roadshows and exhibitions
- 160 seat cinema
- 500 student rooms
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