Porridge Yard Part 1 Project 2020 Joseph Franklin University of the West of England | UK Porridge Yard proposes a Confucius Institute that specialises in education and support for excluded young people. The holistic programme aims to tackle the burgeoning issue of juvenile re-offending, while questioning the role of a public institution. The courtyard typology explores the notion of the inhabited wall, with spaces that offer diverse uses, carved out of a thick earth structure that frames a courtyard garden. The monolithic façade and deep openings reference the elevations of the sandstone caves that run along the site boundary. Porridge Yard is a generous civic building: its built form and programme encourages engagement with its neighbours and the wider city, pedestrian paths follow desire lines through the site and the thick walls offer nooks to sit in, as well as housing a community pizza oven. Tutor(s) Jonathan Bassindale