The Campus is a sequence of intertwining open spaces. Buildings on the different zones qualify these spaces from an architectural point of view. The Master Plan model determined the design of these open areas; a fabric of interior and exterior spaces, defined by the location of the buildings’ entrances in relation to the plazas, brings life to the intended environment.
The new Health Faculty of San Jorge University is located on a campus on the outskirts of Zaragoza city. Although it is a rural campus, the nature in it is scarce. The forest along the campus is the result of a man created operation. The surrounding buildings, the Rectory and Communications Faculty, respond to a contemporaneous architecture that lives besides that nature.
The goal of this international competition organized by the University of Manitoba with the support of “Manitoba Hydro” the provincial Crown-corporation company specialized in hydro-electric energy, was to suggest a new vision of the Campus through a masterplan that integrates the challenges of growth, comfort and environmental quality and that will allow the positioning of the Campus as an exemplary space in terms of innovation, environmental values, variety and worldwide integration.
This veritable urban challenge includes the development of 4.200 housing units as well as 21.000m2 dedicated to businesses and facilities in the «Southwood Precinct»extension along with a general reflection devoted to the flows and complementary elements to be integrated within the Campus core« Fort Garry Campus » as well as its peripheral areas, including the technological Park and the sports complex.
The South Campus Central Chiller Plant will provide the Medical District of the Ohio State University a long term, efficient and sustainable solution for chilled water production and distribution. Durability and redundancy will be addressed with a modular design with additional components of all critical equipment to maintain 12,500 tons of chilled water for the medical center customers.
In line with its new policies on pre-college education, Republic of Turkey’s Ministry of Education is planning to build 33 new campuses on various locations all around the country, with a capacity of approximately 12.000 students each. The plan is to combine a number of longstanding educational facilities in inner-cities that either expended their lifespan or don’t have the room for further expansion, and move them to designated sites on the periphery of the related towns.
A two-stage competition for the Med Campus in Graz was held in 2009/2010. The task was to concentrate the hitherto widespread facilities of the Medical University near the Provincial Hospital. The project provided for lecture halls, seminar rooms, laboratories, research facilities and administrative offices. It comprised a gross floor area of about 100,000 square meters structured in a volume of approximately 300,000 cubic meters.
Project: MED Campus, Vienna International Competition 3rd Prize
Location: Vienna, Austria
Project team: Jesper Bork, Thomas Stepany, Simon Oberhammer, Christian Tonko, Alexander Daxböck, Kadri Tamre, Manfred Hermann, Elena Valcheva, RüdigerSuppin, Hannes Schwed, GregorHolzinger
Built next to the campus of the University of Lisbon, the Entrecampos Square is the largest urban regeneration scheme under development in Lisbon since the Expo’98. Like so many other cities in Europe, Lisbon has been loosing inhabitants to the outer rings of the metropolitan area. In addition to macro-scale factors, like the declining birth rate and the persistence of rent-controlled contracts, the cost of housing in city centres has become prohibitive for young people.
It has been decided to create a series of worlds and environments that occur throughout the school, a great variety of spaces for participation and privacy, where the individuals can develop personally and collectively. Water mirrors, wooded courtyards, and lush gardens screen intellectual activity. Innovation becomes a mean of inspiration for the men and women to be formed.
Article source: ShaGa Studio + Auerbach Halevy Architects
‘Fields of knowledge’ is a design collaboration of the dutch-based firm SHaGa Studio and Auerbach Halevy Architects for a new sustainable education campus in Ramat Efal, Israel. The design has been shortlisted from over 50 entries and been awarded the second prize in the recent Ramat Efal Education Campus Competition. Evoking the memories of old agriculture fields in Ramat Efal; The proposal for a new education campus integrates a series of linear ‘knowledge fields’ into a rich and varied learning experience, weaving together exteriors and interiors, the public and the community.
Image Courtesy ShaGa Studio + Auerbach Halevy Architects
Project: Fields Of Knowledge – Sustainable Education Campus
Location: Ramat-Efal, Israel
Design Team: ShaGa Studio, Gary Freedman, Shany Barath, Alexey Boev, Auerbach Halevy Architects with Ori Rittenberg (Rotem), Ori Halevy, Ori Rittenberg(Rotem), Eynav Nahoum, Noam Muskal
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Barcode Architects & Habiter Autrement presented last week their competition entry for the new multifunctional headquarter of EDEL AG in Berlin. The 7-storey building is located on the Spandaur Schiffahrts Kanal and will be in the future together with the opposite museum of modern art \”Hamburger Bahnhof\” and the \”Flick Art collection” an important link in the development of the Berlin KunstCampus. The project contains a strong mix of program with public functions as an art gallery, café, bookshop and auditorium, versus private functions as the 3000m2 offices for Edel AG and the exclusive penthouses.
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