Project detail

CAMPUS UNIVERSITY, TIRANA

Program : Restricted competition for the Master plan of the new student residences and rehabilitating the existing with facilities and sport buildings.

Location : Tirana, Albania

Client : Atelier Albania, National Territorial Planning Agency

Assignment : ATENASTUDIO, Dea Studio

Schedule : 1st phase: February 2015, 2nd phase: May 2015

Lot Area : 215.230 sqm

Built Area : 277.000 smq

Awards : Short listed for the second phase

The aim of the proposal is to define a synergic territory for the new University Campus that links and works with the surrounding areas creating relevant public centre either for students either for surrounded inhabitants.

Within the synthesis process of design the proposal wants to find a balance between economical capacity of the project and necessity to give into the overall master plan a new dimension of public life-style.

The intervention will define the new road system around the Campus thus to establish a clear accessibly from and to the city. By using a fluent cycling and pedestrian path that goes through the new Campus.

The New Campus will be connected to the City and Tirana Lake Park through a fluent pedestrian and cycling route that links mutually all public activities along its development.

The Master plan use an approach open, flexible and made by sum of single interventions that along the central North-South axis intersects east-west landscape strip directions that generate the program.

The Masterplan works on the general environmental asset using the landscape as device and tool for designing. The Landscape intersects the building design provoking mix of programmatic aspects.

The intervention is placed into the context with respect of local values with using a distinguished character in dialogue between interior and exterior perceptions of spaces: buildings are oriented in order to get the best sunlight orientation and best visuals qualities to the surrounded area towards the south.
Landscape is treated with tectonic movements following the natural orography of the existing territory.