CAMPUS STU BRATISLAVA

CTU in Prague - Faculty of Civil Engineering

Project idea

My main goal, was to create a mass that would be in harmony with the original heavy lab building while being a modern and dynamic element of the campus. I therefore chose dynamic shapes, taking into account the orientation to the cardinal points. I used the circulation nodes of the current courtyard and placed spaces where students can meet and spend their leisure time. I directed my design to create pleasant and representative spaces.

Project description

The land in question is located on the campus of the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava, part of the design was the revitalization of one third of the original heavy laboratory building. The proposed building consists of the lower part, which consists of three floors of the original building, and the upper part, which consists of three floors using the entire roof area of the heavy laboratories. As part of the design, the underground garages, which are located below the level of the lowest floor of the heavy laboratory building, were also developed. To save space, access to the garages is by means of car lifts, of which 6 are designed to ensure sufficient capacity. The main entrance to the new building, the Fabrication Centre, which serves both the public and students, is located at first undergroung floor. It also houses the communal areas and the technical facilities of the building together with the warehouses. The first floor houses the exhibition and social spaces and a small lecture hall. In the exhibition space there are movable partitions that can be used during normal operation to divide the space into individual workstations or for the purpose of displaying student projects. On the second floor there is a canteen with a kitchen and lounge areas. The largest part of the building is located on the third floor, which is the innovation centre, consisting of individual offices, laboratories and meeting rooms. The overhanging cantilever in the southern part of the building houses a café overlooking the forecourt with an outdoor study room. The fourth floor is made up of a quiet study room, student spaces, facilities for administrative staff and a start-up centre. A second floor café is located in the console. The entire fifth floor is dedicated to an experiential science centre, which will house fun displays and showcase innovation and start-up projects.
From the second floor there is access via a connecting truss bridge to the roof of the lecture rooms of the chemistry faculty, where there are rest areas with seating in the middle of the green. From here, one can descend to the forecourt, where there is an outdoor study with a steel wire mesh roof on which climbing plants will grow to shade the space. In the space above the underground garage, benches are arranged for seating, which frame the openings that bring daylight into the underground garage. These openings are fitted with netting to ensure safety. The whole area is designed to be wheelchair accessible, to facilitate access for people with disabilities.

Technical information

The structural system of the building is a reinforced concrete monolithic frame with stiffening walls and a stiffening core. The cantilever in the southern part of the building is supported by a reinforced concrete wall on which a fire staircase and an elevator are located. In the south-eastern part of the building there is a second fire staircase which, together with the lift shaft, serves as a stiffening element. The perimeter walls consist of a lightweight perimeter cladding with a pre-set façade consisting of an aluminium frame and perforated sheet metal infill in two shades. The façade serves as a partial shading element, the other part of the shading consists of built-in roller blinds, controlled electronically by a central system, to ensure optimal lighting of the building.

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