Gatehouse Court and the new Auditorium provide Fitzwilliam College with a major new facility to accommodate a wide range of events including public lectures, musical recitals, dramatic productions and academic conferences. Seating two hundred and fifty people, it contains its own foyer and reception space, back stage facilities and a suite of music practice rooms for use by members of the College. The new buildings continue the sequence of courtyard enclosures set out in Lasdun’s masterplan and subsequent additions by Richard MacCormac and van Heyningen and Haward. The Gatehouse entrance building includes porters lodge, college administration offices, meeting rooms and 40 student rooms with ensuite shower. The auditorium stands amongst a group of public buildings that are centrally located within the College’s inner garden, its “green heart”: The Grove, The Hall, The Chapel, and The Cameron Lecture Theatre. The main floor level of the auditorium has been located below ground level to reduce its scale and allow the seating galleries which surround the auditorium space to have a direct relationship with the garden. The auditorium was designed as a garden ‘pavilion’ building which uses fair faced concrete and natural oak joinery to enhance its setting and required high levels of design coordination and precision on site.