A university residence run by the Dominican order presents a rigorous composition of brick volumes that nevertheless maintain a certain degree of formal autonomy. The bedrooms take up the vertical block, arranged in pairs along continuous balconies,
At the foot of the Collserola mountains, this university residence for the British company Vita Student is located in Barcelona's Pedralbes neighborhood. All of its 274 rooms face the exterior. The ventilated facade presents a greenish ceramic finish
Located between two branches of the River Elbe as it flows through Hamburg, the Wilhemsburg quarter was built on the principles set forth by the 2013 International Building Exhibition, which promoted sustainable, ecological, and socially inclusive ur
The 700 rooms of the Grand Morillon student residence in Geneva are organized in two volumes perforated by a footpath that ascends gradually from the ground level, giving access to the shared programs.
The campus of Ganeshi Lal Agrawal University in Mathura – a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, 150 kilometers south of New Delhi – includes this student hostel designed by the Mumbai-based practice of Sanjay Puri. Offering 800 rooms, the five
Located between Roskilde city center and the site where the music festival of the same name takes place yearly, the Rockmagneten is an art and culture center that takes up an old factory. The brief demanded preserving the existing building – already
The building is located in an area that is developing quickly from a demographic point of view, in the 19th district of Paris, between l’Ourcq canal and the old railroad tracks of la petite ceinture. To address this changing context and favor urban f
On the same plot where the Vallès School of Architecture goes up, the project won a competition in which three challenges were posed: to provide accommodation for architecture students, to achieve the Minergie Swiss energy certification (staying belo
This 192-unit student residence in Paris occupies a very narrow lot, presenting a random-looking wooden facade on one side and a triangulated metal wall on the other.
With its double ceramic and botanical facade, three small towers contain 186 room modules that were preassembled in the factory and set up on site on a structural steel grid.
The new student residence in León, designed by the Madrid-based architects Teodoro Núñez and Almudena Ribot, seeks maximum advantage of space using strategies to combine programs and optimize resources. The rooms are distributed on the perimeter of a
Al este del centro histórico de la capital eslovena, a unos quince minutos a pie a lo largo del río Ljubljanica, se encuentra una zona de crecimiento urbano que concentra un amplio conjunto de equipamientos educativos. Entre ellos, la nueva residenci
Ubicada en un solar trapezoidal, largo, estrecho, arbolado y en pendiente, el complejo se estructura en cinco módulos idénticos que suman una capacidad total de 190 plazas, según requería el programa de necesidades. Junto con el condicionante físico,
One Western Avenue crosses Charles River connecting downtown Boston with the Harvard Business School campus. In this area the five-story, brick-clad, U-shaped neo-Georgian courtyard houses and the mid-twentieth-century, twenty-story, concrete paneled
El campus del Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology se halla inmerso en un ambicioso proceso de ampliación que incluye la construcción de más de una docena de nuevos edificios y la renovación de otros existentes. Poseedor de un valioso legado arquitec
With its shores occupied by all sorts of sheds and factories, the river Aker has been at the same time witness and also the driving force behind the industrial development that has taken place in Oslo from the 18th century. Since these constructions
Philip Arcidi «Nos interesa hacer arquitectura apropiada, pero nos interesa también hacer arquitectura contemporánea», asegura Rodolfo Machado, del estudio bostoniano de Machado y Silvetti. Su observación es un indicio de la naturaleza híbrida del Sc
At the center of Coimbra’s university campus, a triangular-shaped parcel bordering a pedestrians-only street in the south was chosen as the location for a student dormitory. With the forest as background, the building joins the silhouette of towers t
Set within the second growth ring of the city of Dijon, the campus at the University of Burgundy has been reorganized under a joint collaboration between the studio and Rémy Zaugg. A new thoroughfare known as ‘Twenty First Century Avenue’ structures
The university boom of the sixties brought about a proliferation of halls of residence in Madrid’s campus. The César Carlos Hall stands out on account of its original typology and unique monumentality. Its austere abstract language relates it to the
Though alvar Aalto had a lifelongrelationship with the United States, it was particularly intense in the forties thanks to a series of prolonged stays. The first was in 1940, at the height of war in his country, when he busied himself with activities
