A BID to transform a learning campus in Southampton is well under way.

Southampton Solent University’s East Park Terrace will be unrecognisable once the £30m project is complete.

The building boasts a distinctive design created by awardwinning architect Scott Brownrigg, which is centred on a glass atrium. The hub features a spaceship-style teaching pod suspended in the centre of the atrium, and there will also be new lecture and seminar facilities and exhibition space which will be available to local businesses and community groups.

The design also boasts a platform with views over much of the city centre.

Now designers have released an animation of the new complex which takes visitors on a virtual tour of the building.

It allows visitors to get a sense of the futuristic-looking design and how the space will be used by students and the community.

Justin Elliott, associate director of Interserve – the main contractors – spoke of the company’s excitement about working on such an innovative project.

He said: “We are a locallybased company that employs a number of graduates from the university’s built environment degree courses – about 12 at the last count – and so we recognise how important it will be for the university and local community.

“Being part of that community, we wanted to be the company constructing it.”

The first stage is on track for completion by the end of December 2015.