FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY - UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY
University as a monument to Knowledge
Within a city. Inside a built block rigorously defined by its enclosing body of two storeys, the common spaces of the university - monuments to Knowledge – lie in its very centre. The ambitious programme is displayed around a courtyard, two “L” shaped buildings host the Faculty of Philosophy while the “C” shaped body, closing the square perimeter, is occupied by the Faculty of Psychology. The discontinuities of the perimetral block become entries to the main inner public space where the main buildings are built: the Aula Magna, following the model of the _ bouleuterion_ of Priene; the Dean’s Office and the Library, which is placed right in the middle. Many are the models and analogies that can be traced to this university complex: Diocletian Palace in Split or British colleges in Oxford. The whole is made of brick and ashlar.
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