Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / KPF

Text statement provided by the architects. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), on with galore high-ranking authorities officials and representatives from KPF’s section offices, gathered to officially chopped the ribbon connected the University’s caller field successful Nansha, Guangzhou (GZ). The innovative caller field combines the university’s programmatic aspirations to enactment the symbiotic maturation of its world and probe programs with the site’s earthy quality and surrounding caller innovation district, each the portion supporting c neutrality readiness and zero h2o waste.

“KPF worked intimately with the elder enactment and module astatine HKUST during an aggravated 2-year play to program, plan, and plan a leading-edge probe field for HKUST (GZ),” said Jill Lerner, KPF Principal. “In its 7 districts, the field aims to supply the HKUST students and module a unsocial acquisition for teaching, research, living, athletics, recreation, and societal interaction.”

The maestro program creates an iconic and memorable mounting for HKUST(GZ). This archetypal signifier of the task encompasses astir 6 cardinal quadrate feet (about 550,000 quadrate meters) for implicit 4,000 postgraduate students and 400 faculty. When afloat realized, the field volition accommodate much than 10,000 students and faculty, fostering a existent mixed-use assemblage by integrating teaching and learning facilities with housing, vicinity and field retail, pupil beingness programs, administration, hotel, bureau and incubator spaces, and athletics facilities. The field is organized into chiseled neighborhoods, with programs and architecture that specify spaces and places of varying character.

“Our squad operated non-stop done the pandemic to assistance this bonzer field travel to life,” said James von Klemperer, KPF President. “Working from KPF offices successful New York, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, we pursued HKUST’s extremity of making an instauration of technological learning and probe that meets the highest of planetary standards. The absorption of our architectural plan was to promote collaboration done marrying functionality and ratio with the quality of the place. Landscape and gathering spaces travel unneurotic to make an ambiance wherever scientists volition beryllium energized and inspired to innovate.”

All designed by KPF, these specialized facilities are located astir a dynamic, cardinal abstraction to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and engender a beardown community. This teaching and learning hub is the bosom of HKUST(GZ), astir which the surviving learning and probe field volition beryllium centered. Eight probe and laboratory buildings, connected by shaded, linear arcades, signifier a primary, expansive municipality abstraction that is the nexus of expanding improvement connected east-west and north-south axes. These link aggregate field programs and supply superior links to the metropolis and the river. 

Rather than pursuing a accepted world operation for the caller field based connected schools and disciplines, HKUST(GZ) is centered connected a “project-based learning” exemplary which encourages multi-disciplinary interactions. Four cardinal “Hubs” person been established, Function, System, Information & Society. Each operation is supported by “Research Thrusts” which whitethorn germinate implicit time. A afloat scope of teaching spaces, including seminar classrooms, labs, ample lecture halls, shaper spaces, and collaborative workspaces, are integrated with the probe environment.

HKUST(GZ) is simply a starring illustration of sustainable improvement successful China, with a 54% simplification of c emissions from time 1 and a extremity of achieving c neutrality earlier 2060. The program features biology and resilient plan measures attuned to Guangzhou’s hot, humid clime on the rapidly urbanizing seashore of Southern China and to the flooding, seismic, and clime alteration risks of the area. The campus’ cardinal driving principles are: Zero Impact, Resilience, Futureproofing, Social Wellbeing, Regenerative Systems, and Living Lab. The maestro program employs strategies to code these principles done 5 absorption areas (Energy, Water, Resources, Mobility and Comfort) with circumstantial targets identified.

HKUST(GZ) is the centerpiece of a caller innovation territory successful Nansha, located midway betwixt Guangzhou and Shenzhen. The campus’ proximity to Shenzhen, the unofficial Silicon Valley of China, positions it arsenic a catalyst for innovation wrong the Greater Bay Area, portion a high-speed obstruction enactment connects HKUST(GZ) to Hong Kong, allowing synergy betwixt the university’s 2 campuses.

A squad of implicit 70 architects and planners crossed KPF offices successful New York, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore, arsenic good arsenic galore consultants including Ayers Saint Gross, Jacobs, ARUP, James Corner Field Operations, and MVA demonstrated unthinkable dexterity and collaboration to plan and present a task of this standard connected an accelerated schedule. The maestro program was undertaken betwixt July 2019 and January 2020, and a preferred strategy was selected successful clip for the tract groundbreaking successful September 2019, lone 2 months aft the plan squad was selected. The HKUST(GZ) field represents a important summation to KPF’s portfolio of research, innovation, and world facilities astir the world, including the CUNY Advanced Science Research Centers successful New York City, the University of Michigan’s Detroit Center for Innovation, and NYU’s caller Qiantan field successful Shanghai.

Source Arch Daily