Designed by Edward Cullinan Architects with engineers Buro Happold, the Lodge was completed in 1996 and provides eight student bedrooms around a central communal space. A timber lattice of spruce thinnings carries a planted turf roof. The building was conceived as the first in a series of five accommodation buildings, each serving a different social purpose. The roof is formed of a bent greenwood lattice grid with novel timber joints designed by Buro Happold, and was developed and tested at the University of Bath with funding from a Department of the Environment (DoE) research grant.