The university in Reykjavik, Reykjavik Háskólinn, unifies the present, scattered university functions to one campus in the southern part of the city.
The objective is to strengthen the city identity as a lively and attractive centre of education that – as a flagship for educational trends – attracts students and researchers from all over the world.
The large-scale building, is designed like a circular, independent city with streets, squares and shopping centre. The project realises the idea of the university as a city allowing the individual departments to be organised as independent quarters around a uniting, inner square.
The square provides access to all the university departments whilst housing the common university facilities such as café, restaurants, art gallery, gym, bookshop, nursery, library etc. Thus, a lively urban scene is created in the building – a vibrating centre that generates life and energy to the surrounding streets.
