NEUBAU successfully proposed and implemented an alternative accommodation for a porter’s lodge at the Cambridge University College of Hughes Hall by installing a modified shipping container. The proposal and its realisation was received as a unique solution that unlocked the project from a budget perspective for the client but also as an elegant and appropriate design solution in the context of a Grade II listed university building by the council’s conservation officers.

Hughes Hall was until now the only College of Cambridge University without a Porter’s Lodge. In 2018, expansion of its porter’s team meant that the college required a fast and short term solution to this shortfall. NEUBAU’s proposal for the bespoke conversion of a shipping container was received extremely well from the onset by the college as well as the planning and conservation officers.