University

Close to Villa Ada, in the heart of the Parioli district in Rome, Alvisi Kirimoto with Studio Gemma has designed a new hub surrounded by greenery for the LUISS Guido Carli University campus. The intervention, which completes the university spaces and enhances the surrounding green areas, has involved the demolition of an existing shed, subject to landscape constraints, construction from scratch, and the expansion of an educational building.

The renovation of the AG Campus is an ambitious and sustainable project in the center of Brussels. It introduces light, air, and space. Throughout the renovation, materials were chosen as sustainably as possible, and maximum effort was made to preserve and reuse materials from the existing building. The roof of the new extension was implemented entirely as a green roof and additional green spaces were added in the garden, adding in total more than 1500m² of green spaces in the heart of Brussels.

Situated on a small plot on the outskirts of Aurangabad city, the Late Vamanrao Pitambare Institute is a building that caters to higher secondary and undergraduate students from the city and neighboring villages. Located adjacent to a highway outside the city, the context is a sparsely built neighborhood, with a few residential and commercial establishments, and many unbuilt plots with wild vegetation and trees. One can enjoy from here, the views of hills and greenery in the distance. 

AGORA is the cornerstone of a series of renovations to provide the National Veterinary School of Alfort (École Nationale Vétérinaire d’Alfort – EnvA) campus with state-of-the-art teaching and research tools. This iconic training facility in the Maisonnais region, covering nearly 10 hectares, is listed in the supplementary register of historical monuments and has just celebrated its 250th anniversary. The new facility opens a new chapter in the school’s prestigious history.

In 2018, Hung Hau Group contacted DE-SO Asia to renovate the main building’s facades of Van Hien University, located in Binh Chanh district of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The mission was to continue the project’s construction by redesigning the facades based on the existing structure of the building. The proposed facade needed to match the client’s vision. Instead of a neo-classical architectural approach, the client wanted the University to be more contemporary and dynamic.  

The DY Patil University Centre of Excellence has opened in Navi Mumbai. The ten-story building has been designed to support the teaching methods and ethos of the university, providing high-quality learning and living spaces for 3,000 students. The project also includes a thriving two-acre sky garden with native planting, pond life, and areas for relaxation. The new building – the first educational project by the practice in India – is the result of close collaboration between Foster + Partners and the University Chancellor, Dr. Vijay Patil. The project achieves a LEED Platinum rating, the highest level of accreditation.

The New Architecture & Design campus for MAHE was built on a dense contoured land of 3.9 acres with a vision to create interwoven and fluid spaces. The campus is planned for 1200 students from the field of Architecture, Design, and Fashion. Located in the coastal town of Manipal in Karnataka, mother ship of Manipal Academy of Higher Education Institutes. The city is bustling with vibrant campus life and students coming from different parts of the world. A subset of the existing facility which already held strong roots in the existing system with an avant-garde vision offered a mold to a design philosophy that is innovative yet sensitive. The design originated from the strong topographical site- context. The site had a major slope of 18m towards the South-East side at a mere distance of 100m, facing the valley. Working with a 10mx10m grid, the building blocks were stepped down to have undisturbed views of the valley while also respecting the existing contours.

The FUB3 University Complex is located inside the former Manresa’s Slaughterhouse, a modernist building built in 1906 based on a project by the architect Ignasi Oms i Ponsa, and which is currently listed with the BCIL (Cultural Asset of Local Interest) distinction in the Catalan Cultural Heritage catalog.

Supplementing an existing residential/ dormitory tower (from 1971 by Neuhaus and Taylor Architects) for Sid Rich College, the new college sets a milestone for Rice University’s rapidly growing campus in Houston. An incubator for architecture, Rice has a long history of supporting forward-looking architecture from its classical origins (a masterplan of 1910 by Cram, Goodhue, and Ferguson, Boston), through modernism in the 50-the 60s to post-modernism in the 80s (Michael Graves, James Sterling, Cesar Pelli) to an array of innovative recent buildings (Michael Malzahn, Thomas Phifer, and artist James Turrell).