Oliver Venghaus
Campus_Architecture.AC. RWTH Aachen (Germany)
How does it look like, the architecture faculty, which offers a 24-hour think-tank and direct contact to science and teachers ?
This part of the task was the starting point for the development of the concept. So how can the existing fragments of the complex (Reiff-museum, Seminar-building, Extension-building,...) be connected with the new building ? The answer to this is the Campus_Architecture.AC.
CAMPUS - an area where the institutes of an university are collected. What happens if you transfer this term to a building ? The area, which offers the space for the single institutes, will be placed in form of a built infrastructure.
BUILT INFRASTRUCTURE - Different areas already exist in the Campus_Architecture.AC. These areas will be connected and extended by the new structure.
NETWORKING - the new structure makes it possible to join the single fragments to a whole – the Campus_Architecture.AC.
The new areas can be used flexibly. The different levels are organised by their internal functions and requirements. Single parts can grow, shrink, fuse with other parts or can disappear completely.
The central navigation-space in the Campus_Architecture.AC is the extended Reiff-Foyer. The space flows underneath the Seminar-building and widens up. Every part of the complex can be reached from this space. The new foyer connects the access at Schinkelstraße, the main entrance for pedestrians, with the new access at the entrance space of the underground car-park. This entrance will be an integrated and essential element of the concept.
The upper levels are developed consequently from the foyer to the top level. They are linked by a public route. Generous open stairs connect all levels and give a wide range of possibilities to discover the Campus_Architecture.AC.
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