Campus Master Plan
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about Campus Master Plan
Project • By MO-OF / Mobile Offices • Masterplans
S.P.A. Vijayawada Student Housing
Concept/Philosophy
Our idea for student group housing stems from an interest in developing inter relationships in which students would participate in a non-hierarchical and rhizomatic nature of exchange. Our approach was to move away from the hermetic dormitory or hostel organizational structure, which fosters a regimented form of social control - a kind of control that restricts learning, living and exchange.
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The attempt is to create organizational variation, non-linearity, change & flexibility through the integration of programs with non-programmatic spaces thereby integrating both the collective and the individual.
MO-OF / Mobile Offices
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Program and Organization
The social and cultural lives o... More
Project • By MO-OF / Mobile Offices • Masterplans
S.P.A. Vijayawada Institute
Concept/Philosophy
The School of Planning and Architecture, Vijayawada, attempts to make the campus an institutional center in the city of Vijayawada. The institutional building is a platform for academic debate, exchange and dissemination and becomes a deep gateway and an interface to the entire.
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The building intends to create an interactive community learning environment nestled within its cultural context with a keen focus on environmental sensitivity. The Institute draws on the austere ideologies from Brutalism as a form of expression as a response to the extreme climate, and positions it contextually in Vijayawada. The design demonstrates a scale akin to a public building on the outside and the inside explores the didact... More
Project • By Architectural Prescription • Offices
PM Campus
Located 20 km to the south of Kyiv, PM Campus embodies a vision of a corporate campus for an IT company built on the principles of a sustainable community. The project restores the idea of cohabitation by introducing a holistic environment that fosters professional and personal growth.
Architectural Prescription
Soft zoning combined with hard infrastructure that is hidden underground strengthens coherence and open nature of the space.
Architectural Prescription
Since the campus is located in the area that was reclaimed from the Dnipro river, the objective was to create a brand new ecosystem based on the surrounding environment. Tabula rasa was implemented as a conceptual approach to re... More
Project • By Sasaki • Masterplans
Xinyang University South Bay Campus Master Plan
The master plan for Xinyang University’s (XYU) new campus sets the university apart as a 21st-century liberal arts institution that nurtures ecologically-minded and socially conscious living-learning communities. From the outset, the university leadership and Sasaki developed a bold vision to integrated social, economic, and educational aspirations to create an alternative model to the current practices of delivering higher education in China. Sasaki’s highly collaborative and iterative planning process is informed by thorough research of XYU’s current pedagogy and the site’s characteristics, ecoregion, and climatic conditions.
Today, the majority of China’s leading universities and colleges are state-owned. H... More