The Verena Holmes BuildingScience, Technology, Health Engineering, and Medicine

An Inspirational Landscape

These ambitious plans open up our campus landscape to the city to create a strong visual connection between St Martin’s Church, Canterbury Cathedral and St Augustine’s Abbey. Our new public spaces will invite the people of Canterbury into the heart of the University, and Engineers trained on our newly developed Engineering and Technology programmes will soon graduate and be living and working in the local community. These highly qualified professionals will become part of society alongside the many thousands of healthcare professionals, teachers and policemen who have already successfully graduated from Canterbury Christ Church University.

Collaboration and Informal Learning

Located within the Prison Quarter, the Verena Holmes Building is a new academic and research facility promoting collaboration and social learning, and will be home to the KM EDGE Hub. The building shape references the visual connection from St Martin’s Church to Canterbury Cathedral over St Augustine’s Abbey, creating a new heart to North Holmes Campus and will provide direct links between the University’s key buildings.

The building footprint sits within a complex landscape allowing the creation of a largely concealed (though naturally ventilated) lower ground floor car park, over which sits the new public square.