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Competition: 2013
Client: Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Ministry of Education and Training
Use: University Campus
Size: 326.827 m² GFA
in association with Riegler Riewe Architekten, ASTOC, YO2
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Master Plan Vietnamese-German University, Binh Duong, Vietnam
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For the landscape design a set of landscape elements was analyzed and adapted to fit the needs of the contemporary campus. By implementing typical „images“ of the local landscape, as for example the Vietnamese forest, the terraces of the rice fields or the relation of walkways, stone and water. An identity is created which combines local character with progressive design. The planting concept solely works with native species of trees and plants. By these means, the outdoor spaces integrate well into the context while presenting it something outstandingly new.
The proposed design deals with the movement and flow of the space, abiding to the diagonal as a predominant direction and creating a design to respond to it. The façade has similar connecting qualities to the design of
the ground floor. The permeable outer skin of the buildin allows multiple views onto the building attractions within the context, thus strengthening the building as a connector. We have designed this library as a permeable and open institution which attempts to invert its historical typological characteristics.
The idea of inverting this principle implies the dissolution of boundary and therefore creating a spatial continuum between inside and outside, downstairs and upstairs, of space and of usage flow. This corresponds to all future requirements for a modern, competitive learning and information library structure, as a place of well-being for the users is created and where a good working environment motivates learning.