VITA Student Residences
Continuing the regeneration of Fountainbridge
Continuing our longstanding relationship with the Fountainbridge area of Edinburgh, MLA’s Student residential development at 125a Fountainbridge for VITA Student provides 263 bedrooms of a high standard aimed at the postgraduate market.
- Location Fountainbridge, Edinburgh
- Client VITA Student
- Status Complete
- Services Architecture
- Size 263 Bedrooms
- Photography Alan McAteer
Context
This project provides postgraduate student accommodation on the site of a dilapidated former Edwardian cinema by the Union Canal in Fountainbridge.
The once famous & grand Palais de Dance had fallen into disrepair.
The building completes the terminus of the Union Canal.
This unique, mixed use development provides high quality student residences with hub facilities, commercial & leisure uses at ground floor level.
High quality areas for shared studies.
A focus was put on facilities for socialising.
Plenty of space for relaxing.
High quality facilities include a gym.
The design provides a visual terminus to the Union Canal, completing the public realm around Lochrin Basin and creating a new focal building of high architectural quality which responds to the urban typology and development brief established by the City of Edinburgh Council.
The massing of the blocks fronting the canal have been carefully designed to maintain existing views to the castle from the canal, whilst the busy hub and leisure areas are focussed at ground floor to promote activity around the street and canal side areas.
The once famous & grand Palais de Dance had fallen into disrepair.
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The building completes the terminus of the Union Canal.
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High quality areas for shared studies.
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A focus was put on facilities for socialising.
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Plenty of space for relaxing.
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High quality facilities include a gym.
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