Virtual Engineering in the New Inventive Economy \ UNStudio. Ben van Berkel / UNStudio‘s Centre for Virtual Engineering (ZVE) realised and receives Gold certification from the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB). Virtual Engineering in the New Inventive Economy, image courtesy UNStudio | © Christian Richters The Centre for Virtual Engineering (ZVE) is a prime example of what I like to refer to as ‘attainabilty’. The building combines the affordable with the sustainable through a combination of its compact building volume, materialisation, flexible organisation, efficient ground use and numerous energy saving installations.Ben van Berkel Contemporary companies, particularly those in the creative industries, are bringing about substantial change in the ways in which we work today.
They are fully embracing changes which promote and stimulate creative work processes through communication, experimentation and new forms of collaboration. This understanding is no longer limited to the creative industries alone however. . + Project facts + Credits. University of Aberdeen New Library / Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects. Architects: Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects Location: University of Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom Project Year: 2012 Photographs: Adam Mørk Project Area: 15,500 sqm Client: University of Aberdeen On September 24th 2012, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain marks the official opening of the University of Aberdeen New Library in Scotland.
The building, won in an architectural competition in 2005 by schmidt hammer lassen architects, is replacing the University’s former library from 1965 – the Queen Mother Library. The 15,500 m² new library, which provides a 21st century learning and research environment for students, university staff, visitors and the public, is a positive example of how architecture can make a difference. Since the building was put into service in September 2011, the statistics have shown a significant increase in the use of the library, and more than 700,000 visitors have entered the building this first year of operation.
Bastow Institute of Educational Leadership / Maddison Architects. Architects: Maddison Architects Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Principal: Peter Maddison Design Director: Drew Carling Project Architects: John Simmons, Jolie Lam Documentation Team: Kim McLaren, Chris Jones, Petra Mueller, Stephanie Tan, Amanda Blows Original Architect: Henry Bastow Project Year: 2011 Photographs: William Watt Project Area: 1,500 sqm Builder: Cockram Construction Structural Engineers: Peter Felicetti Pty Ltd Heritage Consultant: Lovell Chen The site was formerly known as the Melbourne College of Printing and Graphic Arts located in North Melbourne and it contains the heritage listed State School No. 307 which fronts Queensberry Street.
Our brief was to restore and transform this run down and derelict building into a new state of the art facility reflecting the Education Departments vision and commitment to educational leadership. KKE Architects | AJ Retrofit Award for The Riverside. Architecture The Riverside, a higher educational building designed by KKE Architects for the University of Worcester, has won the Higher Education Building category of the AJ Retrofit Awards 2012. The awards, created by the Architects’ Journal (‘the voice of architecture in Britain’), recognise the vision of clients and the skill of architects in re-purposing existing buildings to create cost-effective schemes with low energy usage and reduced carbon emissions. The innovative Riverside building, which appears purpose-built, but was in fact created from a former car dealership with associated workshops, has achieved a C energy performance rating (EPR): a significant achievement for a refurbishment and especially one created on a tight budget.
At a total project cost of £2.3m, the scheme cost approximately half what it would have cost to build from scratch (at a £1000 per sq m rather than £2000 per sq m for a new scheme). Project Background Existing building and brief Landscaping. UNStudio / Ben van Berkel’s design chosen for the Singapore University of Technology and Design. The world-renowned architect UNStudio / Ben van Berkel’s design has been selected from a shortlist of five practices to design Plot A of the SUTD (Singapore University of Technology and Design) campus.
The main aim of the design for the Singapore University of Technology and Design was to create a campus that celebrates both teaching and learning in an open and transparent way. The network of horizontal, vertical and diagonal vistas within the double quadrant organisation of the campus enables professors, students and faculty members to see, meet and communicate with each other through a network of crossing points, presenting opportunities for continuous interaction and exchange.Ben van Berkel Singapore University of Technology and Design, render courtesy UNStudio + Architect’s statement by UNStudio Singapore University of Technology and Design Celebrating teaching and learning Sustainable learning – Seeing the future of design as shaped by an activating, transparent, connective environment.
Libraries. In less than a year of existence, we have featured more than 500 projects! So in case you? Ve missed some we will be featuring interesting projects, sorted by building type. Here? S our first selection of Libraries you can? T miss. This library by Giancarlo Mazzanti, finished its construction in 2007 and is located in Santo Domingo Colombia. Built by Marsino Arquitectos, this architectural container materializes the gathering in spaces to develop the social role of contemporary libraries, distant from the old archive-like approach for libraries. Perkins Eastman? Constructed by ARX PORTUGAL, the building is located on the periphery of the town of Ilhavo in Portugal, an area with little urban expansion, still fairly inarticulated and problematic. By JKMM Architects, the new city library in Turku, Finland is located at the historical centre of the city.
Shortlisted for new engineering campus, University building of Cyprus \ BM3 Architecture. BM3 Architecture was recently placed for an International Competition for a new Faculty of Engineering at the University of Cyprus. The brief for this project was to produce a sustainable master plan the new University Building in Cyprus with opportunity for future expansion. This involved designing several buildings that include a Structural & Earthquake engineering laboratory, Department of civil & environmental engineering, Deanery & Common space, Department of electrical & Computer engineering and Department of mechanical & manufacturing engineering. Render courtesy BM3 Architecture To achieve these objectives of the brief it was decided that the departments MME, ECE and CEE should focus on a communal central space which will contain the Deanery, Common Use Spaces and Department of Architecture Spaces at the heart of The Faculty.
The main entrances to each department will be from this central space. Site plan, drawing courtesy BM3 Architecture Section, drawing courtesy BM3 Architecture.