Image 3 of 27 from gallery of Institute of Engineering and Technology – Ahmedabad University / Vir.Mueller Architects. Photograph by Andre J Fanthome
Image 3 of 15 from gallery of Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine / WEISS/MANFREDI. Photograph by Albert Večerka/Esto
Image 19 of 37 from gallery of University of Montpellier Village des Sciences / BPA ARCHITECTURE. Photograph by Marie-Caroline LUCAT
Image 12 of 46 from gallery of Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Campus / Rocco Design Architects Associates + Wang Weijen Architecture + Gravity Partnership. Courtesy of Rocco Design Architects Associates
The Reed College Performing Arts Building (PAB) consolidates theatre, dance and music programs, previously scattered across campus, into a new vibrant and cross-disciplinary home for the arts. The facility creates intellectual, social and creative communities that cut across disciplines to...
Tamayouz Excellence Award is proud to announce the winners of its Iraqi Graduation Projects Award.
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The new Charles Library at Temple University has opened its doors for the start of the Fall 2019 semester. Sited at the intersection of two major..
Image 1 of 30 from gallery of Yinan Library and Archives / 7 Studio of School of Architecture at CAFA. Photograph by Weiqi Jin
Image 7 of 36 from gallery of Helsinki University Main Library / Anttinen Oiva Architects. Photograph by Tuomas Uusheimo
Image 3 of 24 from gallery of Stanford University School of Medicine Center for Academic Medicine / HOK. Photograph by Alan Karchmer
Completed in 2022 in Quzhou, China. Images by Ming Yin, Ma Yuan Photography, ZY Architectural Photography. In the beautiful scene of efficiency, convenience, and diversity brought by intelligent Internet, students have completed the survival feat of...
Image 2 of 5 from gallery of Brandon Haw Unveils Plans for University Building in Colombia. Photograph by Brandon Haw Architecture (BHA)
Courtyard, in Chinese architecture, is not only a tradition of physical space but also a core of emotion and communication. It helps people to keep cohesion of family
In a central location on the Delft University of Technology campus, the educational building ECHO was proposed in 2017. The construction is designed to offer maximum flexibility. A superstructure is placed on 8 fixed “table legs” serving as cores, containing lifts, stairwells, shafts, toilets and other technical areas. The amphitheatre and large lecture rooms are separate from the primary supporting structure, ensuring the entire building can be delivered column-free and is highly flexible in terms of its layout and for future adaptations in education. For the façade a vertical modular sawtooth profile has been chosen, closed on one side and transparent on the other. The closed side makes it possible to connect flexible walls to the façade in the future. The sun-oriented roof also consists of a sawtooth profile, incorporating PV panels, which continue onto the façade. Echo has a powerful all-round appearance. The central atrium creates a fluid connection between inside and outside: a real Living Campus! A healthy and pleasant interior climate forms the basis for a good working and learning environment. This is based on individual controllability, good ventilation, acoustic absorption and pleasant light levels. Echo gets pleasant daylight entry through the use of north-oriented shed roofs, high vertical glass sections in the sawtooth facade and a recessed transparent plinth at ground level. A large void in the middle of ECHO ensures that daylight penetrates deep into the building. High sustainability ambitions in this assignment require an integrated approach and ECHO should become truly energy neutral, a challenging task that we have tackled with a strategy based on the motto: “calculate first, then draw”. We have chosen to make a compact building with a relatively limited glass percentage across all floors. Smart building technologies have been implemented in ECHO with a “sensory network” throughout the building, which tracks data about the indoor climate, occupancy and visitor flows over time. Via Analytics, data can be processed into valuable information about the operation costs of the building. Via the façade, ECHO functions as a kind of wind-driven cooler in the intermediate and winter season and as a heat harvester in the summer. By applying low glass percentages and a minimal investment in PV panels, we keep the environmental impact low. The loose and permanent design can look at the use of circular materials and products, in order to respond to flexibility in use, adaptations to the changing future and sustainability.
