CAMPUS
EXTENSION
WEST
House of Schools — Linz (A)
A competition for the extension of the JKU in Linz.
The campus of the Johannes Keppler University has a clear urban planning order in the north. Here, the individual buildings are lined up along the axis that leads from Auhof Castle to the LIT Open Innovation Center. If one approaches the campus from the southwest, it appears as if one were entering it from the rear – in terms of urban planning, no legible order structure can be found.
For this reason, we are supplementing the campus with a second southern axis leading from the management center to the biology center. The aim is to balance the urban development of the campus and to expand it in a compact way. This strategy leads to an extremely low land consumption and is therefore not only sustainable, but also provides the campus with large and contiguous reserve areas in the future.
The so-called dike forms the new urban planning element in the south of the campus. The dyke is a hybrid of a clear east-west running development axis, is a recreation, sports and communication mile, serves as a foundation and entrance for the buildings of the Houses of Schools and accommodates the stationary traffic in its interior.
Three floating rings are placed over the embankment and thus form the components of the House of Schools. The public areas of each of the three components are arranged in the base area below the floating rings. The first module houses the Business School, which will be distributed over a total of three floors.
Materials & Energy Concept
Natural materials and ecological, sustainable construction determine our proposal both constructively and atmospherically. Simple technical solutions with a high proportion of passive measures are the aim of our proposal. Due to the louvers on the facade (passive shading) and openable facades/windows, ventilation and cooling can be largely dispensed with or reduced to a minimum on the upper floors. Heating is by means of low-temperature system, with simple large-area radiators along the facades. The use of geothermal energy would lend itself to this system. The roofs offer space for large-scale photovoltaic systems.
