Kyoai Gakuen University sought proposals for a new building on part of the campus’ recreation grounds. Our design response was to not to build over this existing amenity space, but to lift it to a higher level, supported by the building underneath. The site is also located adjacent to the school’s sports field which currently lacks spectator seating. By sloping the roof in this direction, the proposal could provide additional value by providing seating for sports events.

Kyoai Gakuen University

• Architects: BAKOKO
• Project: Kyoai Gakuen University, New Academic Building
• Location: Gunma Prefecture, Japan
• Competition: Entry
• Expected completion: NA

Kyoai Gakuen University

In addition to being a valuable leisure space, the green roof has numerous sustainable benefits. Soil and biomass help to insulate the building, reducing the level of mechanical heating and cooling. Rainwater runoff is reduced and biodiversity is fostered within the roof’s trees and natural vegetation.

Kyoai Gakuen University

Supporting the green roof is a grid of perforated concrete vaults. The curved form optimizes its compressive strength whilst being permeable to air and light. Similar structural strategies may be observed throughout biology – such as the intricate mineral skeletons that protect microscopic protozoa called radiolaria.

Interior View

Wind catching caps are placed over certain openings to draw fresh cool air and natural daylight into the interior of the building. In bays without wind catchers, artificial light is reflected and diffused by the double-curved ceiling panels. The columns supporting each vault may appear massive, but the upper-half is in fact hollow. These water-tight depressions contain enough soil to support larger species of trees and vegetation than typically possible on green roofs.

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The choice of a vaulted structure seemed particularly apt in light of the school’s Christian affiliation and plans to build an adjacent chapel in the near future. The facade cuts cleanly through the structural grid, forming glazed arches facing onto the campus’ main thoroughfare and public plaza. Two opposite corners are cut through the top intersecting arches, creating cantilevered porches to protect the building’s main entrance.

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Reykjavik University design

• We envisage a university with a clear and independent identity, standing out as a distinctive landmark in Reykjavík.
• We envisage a university which respects its unique location in the landscape and adds value and character to the area.
• We envisage a university which is flexible and receptive to future changes, yet characterised at the same time by a clear, well-planned structure, with a defined centre to act as its heart and hearth.
• We envisage a university which promotes innovation and the sharing of knowledge and which distinguishes itself on the international stage.
• We envisage a university which embraces variety and openness, and will become a prominent factor in Reykjavík’s social and cultural life.
• We envisage a university which lives up to its name as a UniverCity.
• We envisage a university with the students at its heart.
• Welcome to the new Reykjavik University.

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• Architects: Arkís Architects + Henning Larsen Architects
• Project name: Reykjavík University
• Location: Reykjavík, Iceland
• Program: University
• Construction date: 11 Jan 2010
• Client: Fasteign ehf
• Collaborators: Mannvit, Verkís, Efla, Þór, Landmótun

The new Reykjavik University is seen as a town rather than a building. Laying out the University as a classic, close-knit urban structure with streets, squares, recesses and courtyards creates a place with urbanity, dynamism and community at its centre.

Exterior View

The main central space of the University – Crossroads – fulfils the function of the main square of a classic town. This is where people converge and diverge, the place from which the main arteries of human traffic radiate. These arteries demarcate the different faculties, such that each faculty forms a distinctive neighbourhood within the city, each with its own little alleys, squares and surprise views of the surrounding landscape. The interior courtyards afford increased opportunities to be outdoors, as they provide shelter from the wind while the low height of the buildings lets in the sun.

Bird Eye View

Crossroads:

Conceptually, the building is organised around Crossroads, a vibrant central heart in the building that ties all functions together. Crossroads is a way of organising the university: to concentrate and showcase social life and activity and to accommodate a spatial social sphere embracing the whole range of functions.Crossroads is a place where people meet and a starting point for activities and events. The structure of the university, secures all institutes and faculties equal access to Crossroads.

Interior View

Crossroads is the public face of the university as well as its inner heart. Arriving at the main entrance, you step into Crossroads and encounter the dynamic life that characterises the University. The restaurant, cafés, bookshop, fitness centre etc. are all laid out along the sides of the space, and a sculptural staircase winds up past the first floor to the roof terrace. The broad steps of the staircase are intended to be seating plateaux, furnished with tables and seats, offering inviting places for group work or other informal study configurations.

Class room

The centre of the space is large enough for major gatherings, parties and possibly a stage. The large study staircase is covered by a glazed roof that lets in plenty of daylight and offers a view of the sky. From the middle of the room there is also a view of the balcony, which is laid out as an open study area, and houses the reception areas of each of the faculties. Each reception area is flanked by a coloured wall that distinguishes each faculty, making it easy to form an overview of the location of the faculties from below.

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Flexibility and scope for expansion:

The concept is of an extraordinary sturdiness in relation to future adjustments to the final programme for the building, both during the programme adaptation, during the subsequent detailed design phase and post-commissioning.

Reykjavík University

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Cafeteria

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After nearly 50 years of patiently seeking out every new poetry publication, the University of Arizona amassed one of the finest collections of Contemporary Poetry in America. With collection in hand, the University set out to design its new home; a facility for archiving, research, reading, teaching, and contemplation.

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• Architect: Line and Space, LLC
• Name of Project: University of Arizona Poetry Center
• Location: Tucson, Arizona

During discussions defining the new facility, it became clear that there were a number of contradictions in the architectural program; the desire to provide a place suitable for active discourse as well as quiet solitude; the ability to enjoy reading in natural light while at the same time offering protection from its destructive nature; intimacy with the books and the reality of the massive presence of 50,000 shelved volumes; and, of course, the desire for security while at the same time making the poetry readily accessible to all who desired to partake. These contradictions inherent with combining a valuable collection with an active university and community resource drove the design concept.

Odium

The connection between reader and poetry are overarching in the Poetry Center’s design.  This connection is refined in the plan of the building which is conceived as a “progression towards solitude.”  Progression starts at the west with an active and noisy Humanities Seminar Room whose transparent walls can be opened, allowing flexibility within the shaded transition space, and doubling the seating capacity for larger events.  Moving east, public functions dissolve into more intimate spaces within the collection — one finds themselves in the bamboo garden, an outdoor area of solitude and contemplation.

Humanities Seminar Room

Measures were taken to create a space that was inviting to both the academic community and the public.  The shaded transition space welcomes visitors to the building while protecting them from direct sun with a series of roof planes that provide a transition from the hot desert climate to the cool air-conditioned interior.  “Sky Holes” puncture the roof to further mediate the transition from the bright exterior to the shaded interior.  Additionally, a recessed odeum, or small performance theater, is situated under this transition space, and is designed to be usable year-round providing shade in the summer and warming sun in the winter.

Stacks

The building is oriented so that southern windows are protected by overhangs which allow daylight into the spaces with no direct sun.  The west elevation has minimal fenestrations, providing privacy and a barrier from traffic noise, in addition to mitigating direct solar heat gain which reduces demand on the mechanical system.  On the east, a “binary wall” shades the building and bamboo garden while celebrating a line from a Richard Shelton poem (“…you shall learn the art of silence.”) with holes punched out in binary code.

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