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IDEAL{s}PACE : The University as a Garden of Ideas
Architecture News - May 12, 2008 - 16:47 3789 views
This paper will describe the process and outcome of a competition-winning urban design project for the city campus at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. The competition brief was sponsored by the University, the City government and the national highways authority, and sought ideas to alleviate the dangers posed by existing traffic routes through the campus. Recent developments have meant that the University has also lost many of its original green spaces. Our first-prize-winning project proposed a new underground road tunnel that removes traffic and creates a series of new multi-level, pedestrian ‘gardens’ connecting parts of the university that are currently separated from shared resources, and from each other. It will stimulate a series of new links to a network of existing academic, civic and social spaces within the university and the wider city; libraries, common rooms, courtyards; existing theatre and other exhibition, performance, recreation and recital spaces.
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