斯特拉特福德大学广场/Make Architects

发布于：2023-06-28 20:40:20

University Square Stratford

设计方：Make Architects

位置：英国

分类：教育建筑

内容：实景照片

合作人：Volker Fitzpatrick in association with AWW architects

工程师：AECOM

图片：14张

摄影师：Simon Kennedy, Courtesy of Make Architects

这是由Make Architects设计的斯特拉特福德大学广场。伦敦大学伯克贝克学院和东伦敦大学（ UEL ）意识到他们只有共同努力，才能使学术与社会生活更好的融合，所以将广场地点设在了伦敦东部的心脏地带。他们希望借此满足当地居民对文化的需求，并能增强学术的影响力，为学生就业提供一个更好的平台。
项目的特点在于延长了建筑每天的使用时间，两所大学的学生们，晚上有很多项活动，这里每天对外开放的时间可以长达十二小时。这种在同一个建筑内同时开展多种活动的构想，无疑是个十分大胆且艰难的决定，但这可以提高学生间的相互交流，并能提升他们的学术素养。
两所大学设想的多功能厅和教育机构等设施，能够吸引广大的学生团体，并可以为文艺、教育、体育等活动提供场地，例如哈佛式的讲座剧院以及大型的艺术排练室。建筑的架构十分牢靠坚固，并十分简单，这样有利于维护和控制整体运营成本。美观的建筑外形，共享的学术氛围，政府的支持，使建筑师们对项目充满信心。

图片来源：Simon Kennedy, Courtesy of Make Architects

译者：砖头

In a unique fusion of academic and community interests, Birkbeck University of London and the University of East London (UEL) realised they had a common need for more space and agreed to work together to create a major new university hub in the heart of east London. Their vision was to meet the growing aspirations of local people with a building that would be an accessible and inspiring place, offering enhanced employment possibilities through better academic qualifications.
A key driver of the brief was the building’s extended daily use; the building was designed to serve UEL students during the day and Birkbeck’s night classes, plus the activities of their partnering organisations for up to 12 hours a day. The bold decision to amalgamate multiple uses within a single shared facility was not only driven by the synergies between each institution’s operating hours, nor was it simply a question of financial savings through cohabiting a single building, both universities were also aware of the positive academic benefits of cross-fertilisation between subjects and departments.
The two universities envisaged a spatially and educationally versatile building that would attract a broad mix of students and serve a wide range of educational and artistic uses that required facilities ranging from a Harvard-style lecture theatre to a large scaled rehearsal space. The brief required physically robust architecture that was highly efficient in energy use, maintenance and overall operating costs. It was to be an architecturally striking building, confident of its shared purpose and with distinct place-making qualities.