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“The new building is a student hostel and practically all the accommodation is in single-room apartments, with separate washbasins and storage, but with shared showers, sanitation and elementary cooking area...Half sunk in the courtyard-podium is breakfast and lecture room.

“The whole mass of accommodation (the caretaker’s flat and the breakfast room excepted) are held up in the air by a series of high concrete stilts. The stilts hold up a container: the tiled red southern wall, broken only by thin bands of glazing (which light the internal corridors) and crowned by the roof lights of the duplex flats on the top storey. At two extreme points, the wall is pierced vertically by the cages of the staircase.”

— James Stirling Michael Wilford and Associates. James Stirling, Buildings and Projects. p130.