Commissioned by the Arts University Bournemouth, this structure is the first purpose-built studio for drawing to be constructed at a British art school during the last 100 years. Its Patron is David Hockney. It is used by every department and is a built statement of the continuing central role of drawing in all the creative arts.

The all-steel monocoque construction has been developed together with the engineers Adams Kara Taylor and the shipbuilding offshoot CIG. Consisting of framed panels that are precisely tailored and fabricated in Germany and subsequently reassembled, welded and painted on site.

The all-blue exterior is deliberately abstracted from any traditional or ‘homespun’ aspects of the Bournemouth area, but on the interior, there is an all-white ambience that concentrates upon the issue of ‘light’.