University Campus Plans
So far this weekend I've been looking into University Campus' to help inform how I can use the logic involved in these designs to help inform the design of the Inverted City. It's getting there (I hope). Have been going crazy with the research but need to apply this to the plans...! Images to follow...
To understand the complexities involved in designing a city within a city, or 5th Ecology for Los Angeles sprawling suburbs, the evolution of the university campus will be looked at. The studies that emerged in the late 1950's and 60's concentrated on how education can happen en masse, away from the existing context of the traditional city. Even though the Inverted City will be within the context of the existing city, what this study can do is to establish principals used in the design development of the campus that allowed it to become a self-sufficient centre of education in terms of classroom adjacencies, circulation, and structure. Education = knowledge exchange (although within a city and not within a campus). The study of the campus cities can therefore be closely used to develop a thesis for the Forum for Knowledge Exchange. Projects have been drawn up including the Berlin Freie Universitat competition design by Candilis Josic and Woods amongst others. Aspects of these designs will be taken forward as a proposal for the Inverted City. The 5th Ecology of the Inverted City will therefore consist of multiple Forums of Knowledge Exchange of varying scales that in their adjacencies and scale will determine use.
To understand the complexities involved in designing a city within a city, or 5th Ecology for Los Angeles sprawling suburbs, the evolution of the university campus will be looked at. The studies that emerged in the late 1950's and 60's concentrated on how education can happen en masse, away from the existing context of the traditional city. Even though the Inverted City will be within the context of the existing city, what this study can do is to establish principals used in the design development of the campus that allowed it to become a self-sufficient centre of education in terms of classroom adjacencies, circulation, and structure. Education = knowledge exchange (although within a city and not within a campus). The study of the campus cities can therefore be closely used to develop a thesis for the Forum for Knowledge Exchange. Projects have been drawn up including the Berlin Freie Universitat competition design by Candilis Josic and Woods amongst others. Aspects of these designs will be taken forward as a proposal for the Inverted City. The 5th Ecology of the Inverted City will therefore consist of multiple Forums of Knowledge Exchange of varying scales that in their adjacencies and scale will determine use.
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