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NUS UTOWN MASTER PLAN Live, Learn and Play A NEW CAMPUS VILLAGE WILL HOST ACADEMIC, RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL SPACES TO REINVENT THE COLLEGE EXPERIENCE By Collin Anderson Master Plan designed in collaboration with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, USA. CREATE facility designed in collaboration with Perkins + Will, USA.
The National University of Singapore Town Master Plan (NUS UTown) project redevelops a golf course into a modern international campus and town centre planned along a green corridor. The design celebrates the pedestrian experience by redirecting vehicular roads to the site perimeter and transforming the land into a network of walkways that responds to the existing topography, hydrology and vegetation. The project explores the planning of live-in places within educational spaces. It seeks an integrated and multidisciplinary approach to the residential college system in an effort to
maximise interchange among an increasingly diverse student population. The master plan and architectural design project will be fully completed in 2013.
MASTER PLAN 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. All UTown programmes will assimilate with those of the adjacent NUS Kent Ridge main campus.