The University of Padua
University hall with classrooms, library and offices, extension with a campus square surrounded by three new buildings: student housing, conference center and language center.
9.500 Sq.mt. Faculty of Psychology, 19.000 Sq.mt. new campus buildings, underground parking Sq.mt.18.900.
The project includes a new university campus with a central pedestrian square surrounded by four buildings. On the existing street, the buildings appear as solid blocks, marked only by a vertical cut that includes the common staircases. The internal square is rotated at 15 degrees in plan with regards to the street front and re-orients the complex towards the Piovego river front with its green park. Here the building blocks open up, excavated by multiple openings, loggias and set-backs. The project therefore joins urban space and green landscape.
