Eliot College
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Eliot College is joined to the rest of campus by a pedestrian platform with a causeway underneath
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Student accommodation for the University of Kent with refectory, common room and lecture rooms
The concrete and brick structure has a rigid geometric pattern consisting of four diamonds joined at the centre to form a central court.
The centre of each diamond is filled with large elements of the refectory, kitchen, common room, lecture and seminar rooms. Corridors of study rooms line each diamond unit, with near octagonal circulation routes winding through the building at different levels. The main entrance comes from an entrance bridge on the first level.
With the campus at the top of a hill overlooking Canterbury, the south-facing triple-height refectory has outstanding views.
Eliot College followed Kent's policy that buildings of residence and buildings of teaching should be kept separate. It was one of two buildings completed for first intake of 500 students at the University of Kent in 1965. The other – a physics laboratory – is now home to the Kent School of Architecture.
Data
- Completed: 1965
- Sectors: Education, Residential
- Address: Eliot College, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NS, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: William Holford & Partners
- Project architect: William Holford
- Client: University of Kent
- Quantity surveyor: Gardiner & Theobald
- Structural engineer: Ove Arup & Partners
- Mechanical and Electrical Engineer: Matthew Hall Mechanical Services Ltd
Suppliers
- Wall plastering: Jarretts Ltd
- Joinery: Norbury Joinery
- Aluminium windows: Williams and Williams Ltd
- Study bedroom wardrobe units: Kandya Ltd