Campus facilities
“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
One Pool Street - opened autumn2022
The building now known as One Pool Street (previously Pool Street West) features a range of uses, including student accommodation, academic, community and public engagement uses.The lower levels of the building also feature to cater to both the public and UCL students and staff.
The design of One Pool Street encourages innovative academic programming,as well as a range of events and activities. Performances, exhibitions, workshops and lectures contribute to a lively and creative learning atmosphere.In addition to our and centre forRobotics & Autonomous Systems, it houses the Urban Room, a major public and community space, but also School for Creative and Cultural Industriesspaces - namely, a Slade studio and London Memory Workshop. Meanwhile, the People and Nature Labuses the Park as a 'living lab' and also includes a first floor rooftop garden.
Marshgate - opened autumn2023
Our UCL East campus building calledMarshgate features predominantly academic spaces, butalso includes , and 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 housesspaces for theAdvanced Propulsion Lab, theManufacturing Futures Lab, Engineering at 911 East, the Institute for Materials Discovery at 911 EastԻThe Bartlett at 911 East,as well astheInstitute of Finance and TechnologyԻtheGlobal Business School for Health, which caters to leading professionals' needs. It is also home to the, whichhas relocated here from its previous baseat Here East. TheInstitute of Making, a multidisciplinary research club for those interested in the made world, also occupiesspace on the ground and first floor levels. TheSchool for Creative and Cultural Industriesfacilities comprise amedia 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