Titanic Quarter Purpose Built Managed Student Accommodation Village

Titanic Quarter Student Village is a new Purpose-Built Managed Student Accommodation (PBMSA) development located in the historical maritime site and upcoming waterfront community in Titanic Quarter, Belfast.

About

The new PBMSA development composed of 1,007 student bedrooms with a mix of bedroom types including cluster rooms and studios, with additional use of accommodation by further or higher education institutions outside term time, is comprised of four blocks of accommodation with building heights ranging from five to nine storeys and up to 35,850sq m gross external floorspace. 

Within the scheme, student residents can avail of the various communal facilities promoting health and wellness, private or group study, or meet friends in one of the recreation spaces. Associated communal facilities include landscape courtyards, shared space such as student lounges, private dining rooms, screen rooms, flexible coworking study spaces, launderettes, secure bike parking and a gym and fitness centre. 

The scheme was conceived as a perimeter block, responding to the defined urban edges of the Titanic Quarter masterplan plot around a secure private landscape courtyard and is composed of a series of ‘architectural pieces’ with varying architectural character through material tone and articulation to read as a composition of buildings responding to the site and street contexts. Breaks in the massing at upper floor levels articulate this ‘urban assembly’ allowing glimpse views through to neighbouring buildings, as well as the historic H&W cranes. 

At an urban street level, the scheme includes and offers new public realm spaces located on the east and the west of the plot, integrated into streets which form ‘view corridors’ retaining key vistas towards Titanic House, the listed former Harland and Wolff Headquarters Building and Drawing Office and to the Hamilton Graving Dock scheduled monument as identified in the Titanic Quarter Development Framework.