Embedded in setting

Hands Building, Mansfield College

The Hands Building was constructed with an innovative carbon negative CLT frame. This offers the benefit of carbon sequestration within the timber, classing the building as the greenest of its kind in Oxford.

“The Hands Building, designed by MICA Architects, is an exemplar for student and academic accommodation, and a model off sustainability, which will significantly reduce the running costs for the College.”

- Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, Principal

The Hands Building provides en-suite accommodation for 73 students

Illustration of how the level change is used to maximise potential of the new building and how landscape integrates the building into it’s setting

Hands Building Awards

Structural Timber Awards 2018, Shortlisted Oxford Preservation Trust 2018, New Building Certificate