| Category | Institutional |
|---|---|
| Year | 2011 |
| Size | 300,600 sqm |
Projects
NUS University Town
Reinventing the college experience
The National University of Singapore (NUS) University Town (UTown) Master Plan redevelops a golf course into a modern international campus and town centre planned along a green corridor.
The project’s design celebrates the pedestrian experience by redirecting vehicular roads to the site perimeter and transforming the land into a network of walkways that respond to the existing topography, hydrology and vegetation.
It also seeks an integrated and multidisciplinary approach to the residential college system in an effort to maximise interchange among an increasingly diverse student population.
Details
To establish an intimate campus environment, the master plan situates high-rise residential towers along an outer ‘ring road’ with low-rise buildings at the site’s interior, along the central pedestrian green. Building location and massing adapt to the landscape: the internal green corridor accentuates the site’s varied topography with buildings positioned sequentially, and a town centre is located atop the highest contour. Academic, recreational and social anchors are strung along the length of the green, drawing users to specific destinations and filtering noises from the surrounding highway.
Structures are connected by variously-scaled pockets of open greenery that also serve as collection points for passive and active interaction; these lawns are overlaid by a network of circulation paths.
Eight residential colleges are designed to bring together students and faculty in support of a holistic educational experience. The living units are supplemented by seminar rooms, theme rooms, a multi-purpose hall and a dining hall on the lower levels.
The colleges are sited on the northern end of the campus, offset from the high-frequency town plan, planned on a north-south orientation to avoid direct solar heat gain and designed as naturally conditioned to embrace the outdoors. Each tower is designed with a degree of architectural autonomy and identity – articulated windows with protruding sunshades adorn the façades of Cinnamon and Tembusu residential colleges, for instance.
With a strong research agenda, UTown will host the National Research Foundation’s Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) – an environmentally-sustainable and energy-efficient international research campus and innovation hub.
UTown is also home to the Stephen Riady Centre which combines education, sports and performing arts spaces.
Master Plan designed in collaboration with Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP, USA.
Specialist Services
Integrated services provided for this project.
AWARDS
| 2012 |
BCA Green Mark Champion Award NUS University Town |
|---|---|
| 2009 |
BCA Green Mark Award for Districts (GoldPlus) NUS University Town |