CFor the visitor to a city, a station is a gateway. It announces arrival. It provides a welcome. It offers orientation. And it reveals how the next leg of a journey can be accomplished. At its best it also characterises the city which it serves. For those who live locally, a station is a tool. It must be practical. It must be efficient. And it must be easy to use. Everything must be in the right place, every connection must be clear. But it must also be something that is a pleasure to experience. It must look, and feel, beautiful.

Our proposal defines the architecture of the new station as three, parallel, vaulted roofs which because they are aligned with the new over-platform bridge face both east toward the city and west towards the country.

The central roof encompasses the main space of the concourse while the northern roof accommodates the ticket barriers and the transfer to and from the platforms. The southern roof houses the retail components of the brief, either, prosaically, in the form of shops and shopfronts or, more dramatically, as freestanding pavilions within the space. As they come to ground on either side of the tracks, the vaulted roofs create a strong, three-bay portal which firmly announces the presence of the station, and commands a new public square. As suggested by the existing masterplan the station square is further enclosed on its northern edge by a separate building containing south-facing retail uses – cafes, restaurants – at ground floor level.

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development site

multi-storey car park

transport interchange

office development

office development

Frideswide Square

Station Square

Hotel Square

station hotel and retail

Masterplan - Roof plan 1:1250City grain plan

Masterplan - Site model photograph

Masterplan - Concept sketch

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The Parish Church of Saint Thomas

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While the space of the new square is primarily given over to pedestrians, a taxi route across the space has been maintained, allowing for taxi pick-up to be located on the south-east corner of the square (taxi drop off and waiting would be located in the adjacent square to the north).

This move – perhaps the only one where we have run counter to assumptions made within the existing masterplan – is, we believe, important because, together with the removal of the short stay parking to the west of the tracks, it avoids the need for the new building on Becket Street to accommodate vehicles in its undercroft. In our proposal, this building – assumed to be offices – sits firmly on the ground.

What this building does provide however – in a colonnade facing the street – is a sheltered pedestrian thoroughfare connecting the bus interchange and the multi-storey car park directly to the station.

While our proposal retains the layout of the bus interchange envisaged by the masterplan, it reconfigures the bus stop canopy to relate directly to the alignment of the churchyard opposite. In this way the new canopy effectively provides a western edge to the churchyard enhancing, rather than diminishing, its presence within the city.

These moves are significant, for the station is as much a set of public spaces as it is a building. And the quality of these spaces, and the clarity of the routes that connect them, are as important as the architecture of the station itself.

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Masterplan - Ground floor

Masterplan area schedule

Pedestrian, cycle and vehicular circulation

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Masterplan - Typical upper floor

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student residential

hotel

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keyAllies and MorrisonArchitects

85 Southwark StreetLondon SE1 0HXT 020 921 0100F 020 9210100E info@alliesandmorrison.co.uk

Schedule relates to plans issued

S15127 Oxford Station

Description E1 E2 S2 W1 W2

Residential Offices Retail Hotel Retail Offices Retail Concourse Operational Offices

Residential Student Resi

GEA (sqm) GEA (sqm) GEA (sqm) GEA (sqm) GEA (sqm) GEA (sqm) GEA (sqm) GEA (sqm) GEA (sqm) GEA (sqm) GEA (sqm)

Ground floor 276 788 480 480 1,202 549 876 689 25 248 224

First floor 276 866 _ 1,181 _ 2,143 1,037 1,793 871 248 224

Second floor 276 866 _ 1,181 _ 2,143 _ _ 871 248 224

Third floor _ 866 _ 1,010 _ 1,388 _ _ _ _ _

TOTAL AREA 828 3,386 480 3,852 1,202 6,223 1,913 2,482 1,767 744 672

OVERALL TOTALS

GRAND TOTALS Residential Offices Retail + Hotel

1,572 9,609 5,534

Notes:

- All figures are approximate * Excludes adjacent 28 spaces at ground in site area of 580sqm.

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The Parish Church of Saint Thomas

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Saïd Business School

Saïd Business School

Frideswide Square

Frideswide Square

transport interchange

transport interchange

coach entrance

coach exit

cycle store access

mscp entrance

& exit

west station entrance

retail service access

short stay car park

operational staff car park

entrance & exit

pedestrian route

taxi pick-up & drop off

existing station entrance

link to -1 cycle store

multi-storey car park

multi-storey car park

operational staff car parkshort stay car parkservice parking

taxi rank

operational staff offices

retail

concourse

Car parking (short stay & operational staff): 105Multi-storey car park: 480Taxis: 24Coach & bus parking: 17

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Roger Dudman Way West station entrance Platforms and first floor concourse East station entrance Colonnade Station Square Frideswide Square

East - West section

View of site model from north-east View of site model from south-west Aerial view of Station and Hotel Squares towards Becket Street

View of East station entrance and hotel from Frideswide Square

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Station - Ground floor Station - First floor Upper station concourse interior view overlooking Station Square

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cycle store cycle store

office developmentoffice development Frideswide SquareSaïd Business School

hotel and retail station, concourse and retail

pedestrian & cycle paths

pedestrian & cycle paths

Botley Road

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hotel

offices

operational staff offices

retail

concourse

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retail

retail

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link bridge

platform canopyplatforms

platforms

west station entrance

bay platform

wc’s & station facilities

retail service

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short stay car park

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ticket machines

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operational staff offices

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