City campus: Study environments exploring urban connection through place identity features in central Gothenburg
Typ
Examensarbete för masterexamen
Program
Architecture and urban design (MPARC), MSc
Publicerad
2022
Författare
Svanberg, Patrik
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Sammanfattning
Higher education students are traditionally in a
transition between late adolecent and young adult.
This is a time in life of big changes; students move
to new towns, get their first own apartment and the
campus often becomes their main dwelling area.
Many campuses are complexes focused to a certain
part of the town they are located and all aspects of
the education are done there. This means students
risk getting isolated from the rest of the town, in
many cases the city centres, resulting in a lack of
sense of belonging to the community the university
is supposed to support. Other campuses are serving
smaller faculties and lack a varied study environment
suitable for different learning styles.
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how the
design of a small scale, deconstructed, city campus can
create a meaningful relationship between students and
their location by exploring concepts of identity and
awareness of an urban place; and provide sustainable
and varied study spaces that function as a support to
existing campuses in the local context.
To gain a comprehensive understanding for the design
this study will explore the theory of the concept
of place identity, the contemporary discourse on
educational environment, learning styles and different
types of learning spaces. It will also explore how the
concept of phenomena can be used to merge the
educational environment and the identity of place to
create meaningful encounters for students.
A city campus concept is formed by first analyzing
a site’s different qualities in its surrounding urban
context; and its place identity features. Secondly
by exploring spatial qualities of learning spaces, the
way they relate to different learning styles, in model
studies. The site qualities, the place identity features
and learning spaces are then merged and analyzed in
explorative model studies.
The city campus design is formed by designing both
indoor and outdoor spaces.
The design is developed in a public space in
Gothenburg, from Bastionsplatsen along the moat to
Drottningtorget. However, the goal with the design
concept is to explore ideas with a generic application
regarding educational