University

Queen’s University’s new Business School building sits within its Riddel Hall campus, in south Belfast in front of the Grade II listed Riddel Hall building and enclosed by mature woodland. In 2017, due to its continued growth, the School identified a need to expand its facilities. Its vision was for a state-of-the-art facility that would both respond to the changing educational needs of its rapidly growing post-graduate community and be a transitional link between education and employment. In addition, the School was keen to explore how the “in-between” spaces linking teaching and learning accommodation could be more than just circulation corridors, encouraging thinking on the introduction of informal study and break-out areas.

Marshgate, a 35,000 sqm state-of-the-art academic building designed by Stanton Williams, has been completed at the forefront of the UCL East campus, in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Marshgate is designed to create a collaborative and cross-disciplinary educational environment focused on finding solutions to today’s biggest social, environmental, and technological challenges, drawing on the shared knowledge and expertise of the many faculties that will converge at the new East London campus.

Designed by Bernard Tschumi urbanistes Architectes and Groupe-6 architects, the new Biology-Pharmacy-Chemistry Center for the Université Paris-Saclay is one of the largest educational projects in France. The 74,000 square-meter (800,000 square-foot), €283 million complex is a major scientific center for the university. Located opposite the future Orsay-Gif Metro station on the Grand Paris Express, the building offers an outward face of the new university and the gateway to its world-class science and research facilities.

Sasaki was tasked with creating a vibrant center for innovation that fosters collaboration, knowledge sharing, and cross-disciplinary thinking among the students, local industry, and fellow regional institutions. To achieve this, the team designed a social armature of open terraces, multi-level atriums, and collaboration zones that serve as the program’s focal point, encouraging visitors to circulate the building in different ways. Located in the heart of campus across from the new Student Life, Recreation, & Wellness Center, the Engineering Innovation Center at the Universidad de Lima introduces a new network of engineering hubs that are closely aligned with the emerging industries of Peru. Woven across the 5-story complex is a series of collaboration spaces, classrooms, and an entrepreneurship center that features pitch spaces, both graduate and undergraduate workshops, a multi-use auditorium, and flexible working areas for companies in residence.

Mount Alexander College is a new 4,590 square meter, five-storey, secondary educational facility. The building encompasses administrative offices, junior science laboratories, and music digital technology, along with adaptable teaching and learning spaces tailored to accommodate an additional 400 students. Sited within a condensed inner-city campus, the project also includes a new standalone canteen pavilion adjacent to the vertical school building.

Architecture as a manifesto of the 21st-century learning education – Thammasat University is an academic institution that has contributed to the reform of Thailand’s socio-economic and political system throughout the eighty years of its history. The university has agreed to establish the Faculty of Learning Sciences and Education to support Thailand’s educational system reform. The faculty aims to support and educate teachers who will be leaders and agents of change in the academic sector. Apart from pedagogical reform, the goal is establishing a community for social development, research, and innovation for long-term sustainable development. Thus, the building must fulfill the curriculum requirement and become a space to demonstrate, support, and improve teaching and learning methodology while driving educational reform for the university and society.

In the Chilean and South American context, with limited resources for public investment, and in a global context of climate emergency that demands an urgent change of perspective in the use of resources, buildings for public use and destination must be capable of being reconverted and adapted. constantly to the changes that society demands and promotes, becoming opportunities to rethink the way they relate to the city and its inhabitants.

If it is up to Architecture to shape the acts of man, we propose that the main act to be developed in the FAE building be wandering peripatetically, as a tool to facilitate the integral formation of “good citizens”, in an Aristotelian sense, capable of assuming long-term leadership positions in the state and society.

The Auditorium and the Central Library of Semnan University were designed in 2007 and span an area of 14,000 square meters. The project contains a series of lecture and educational halls, a multi-purpose central auditorium, and a library that was constructed and developed in different phases. The avant-garde architecture is inspired by traditional Iranian motifs, particularly evident in the intricate openings and ribbons applied on the facade which adorn the building, reflect the rich cultural and artistic heritage of Iran, and allow the use of natural light. The façade is designed as an integrated part of the building’s architecture and structure.

“Building H” is one of the most emblematic projects of the “Opération Campus”, a program initiated by the University of Bordeaux to increase the international visibility of the university campus and create genuine living environments.