| Category | Institutional |
|---|---|
| Year | 2014 |
| Size | 100,600sqm |
Projects
Singapore University of Technology and Design
Non-linear Learning
Innovation is contingent upon connectivity and flexibility. As a platform for innovative thinking, the architecture of the new campus for Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) takes shape as a highly connected network with the capacity to facilitate cross-disciplinary communication, and with the flexibility to adapt to changing educational models.
SUTD is a publicly funded university established in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Zhejiang University of China. The school’s curriculum is structured by four academic programmes: Architecture and Sustainable Design; Engineering Product Development; Engineering Systems and Design; and Information Systems Technology and Design.
Details
In response to this academic structure, the campus design is planned as four schools whose boundaries are blurred and hierarchies diminished. Design strategies blend massing and circulation paths to enhance the potential for chance encounters across academic programmes.
Campus orientation and organisation emerge from two primary thoroughfares of activity: the living and learning spines set on north-south and east-west axes, respectively, intersect at an open forum space where student and faculty activities converge. This node becomes a location for informal gatherings and exchange, bringing people together, and, conversely, as a point of dissemination leading to the four academic schools.
The seamless articulation of spaces connects people, places and ideas, allowing for cross-disciplinary communication and collaborations.
Massing and circulation are designed in a non-linear way to enhance the potential for cross-functional encounters.
The campus auditorium.
Vertical connections double as discussion platforms.
The architecture of SUTD is designed as nonlinear. Meeting spaces, classrooms, and laboratories have the capacity to support different arrangements and functions, and adjust to the evolving requirements of the school’s always-developing curriculum.
The campus plan performs as a catalyst for dynamism, the starting point for any successful learning environment.
Designed in collaboration with UN Studio, Amsterdam
Specialist Services
Integrated services provided for this project.