Before anyone drew a floor plan, we asked a simpler question: how should students actually feel living here? Keel Houses sits on the Union Canal at Lower Gilmore Place and the answer had to beat an amenity checklist.

Our feasibility study mapped how students move through a day. Cinema and games rooms, private dining and flexible lounges were then shaped around those rhythms: busy, studious, sociable or switched off.

Across 69 apartments, bespoke joinery and integrated storage make every square metre work hard without feeling cramped.

Somewhere students choose to spend time, not just somewhere to sleep.