floor to floor restrictions, and general provisions for energy
organized set of strategies to be incorporated across the
efficiency, mechanical stability, fire protection, acoustic
whole campus, but also attempts to locally bring consistency
insulation, universal access and safety, hygiene, health and
to the whole by limiting the range of architectural differences
environmental protection that govern the architecture of this
within those components of the campus intended to act as a
specific zone, city and region.
backdrop to its more vital and celebrated traits. This operates to
develop
a
shared
spatial
The former of these, which is essential to the project, is a
language among the architectural
typological taxonomy that constitutes an attempt within the
teams
Master Plan to conceptually, architecturally and economically
their differences through the
emphasize, through the architectonic uniqueness of their
distinguished and iconic features
characterization, individual buildings such as the Library and
intended
typological taxonomy
while
to
also
supporting
characterize
the
spatial
language
Learning Center, Departments 1
special programmatic functions
/ Teaching Center, and Executive
within each building complex. This tactic tended to reduce
Academy, and programmatic
the potential “noise” given by competing authors and their
sub-components such as the
varied forms of expression on site, while also assuring that
research
the architectural design concepts of the Master Plan become
libraries,
institute, fitness
special and
pervasive—consistently embedded within the organization
support
and spatial articulation of each building and integrated
special functions for the university. This is achieved by
at all scales and degrees of design development. That the
ensuring that, on the one hand, these elements are “figured”
Master Plan is articulated at this level of design is extremely
against a ground that is organized through greater regularity,
commendable, fundamentally contributing to the overall
standardization and repetition, and on the other hand, that
architectural success of the project.
kindergarten,
center
that
the economic logic of this distribution ensures that the
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efficiencies of standardization will facilitate the highlighting
In 2001 Liesbeth Waechter-Böhm published an article on
of, and economic investment in unique architectural
The Homeworkers project by BUSarchitektur entitled “How
features that will act as iconic emblems for the site. This
to build a contemporary City“ 6. She highlighted BUS’s
catalog of design standards, which specifically defines unit
capacity to offer urban spaces that combine values drawn
and aggregative organizational and spatial typologies for
from historic city models with contemporary forms of urban
offices, seminar rooms, lounge spaces, support areas and
living. She also advanced that the critical value of architecture
internal circulation infrastructure, not only ensures a highly
is not solely in the production of creative concepts, but in the