Arc of Interaction - Couverture rigide

Kull, Don

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0979539501 ISBN 13 : 9780979539503

Editeur : Oro Editions, 2008

Synopsis

Over the last two decades, the University of Cincinnati has created a campus renowned for its internationally recognized architecture and planning. One of the most compelling contributions to this program is Moore Ruble Yudell's Joseph A. Steger Student Life Centre. The center plays multiple roles as an eye-catching landmark, a backdrop to the spaces around it and as a frame for vistas providing clear pathways through a dense urban campus. A complex structure, it is nearly 600 curving feet in length and 55 feet high, creating a long, thin envelope treated as a penetrable ribbon-like form. The dense mix of academic, social and retail facilities inside the building, which includes an art gallery, retail store, coffee shop and student government offices, is inseparable from the surrounding campus spaces.By blurring the distinction between interior and exterior, architecture and landscape, the building provides a new model for major campus developments. Moore Ruble Yudell is an architectural design and planning firm that provides services for projects on campuses, for facilities with civic and cultural uses, and for commercial and residential clients. When honored by the American Institute of Architects with the 2006 Architecture Firm Award, Moore Ruble Yudell was cited for having 'consistently produced an outstanding body of work rooted in a deep commitment to humanistic architecture'.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Over the last two decades the University of Cincinnati has created a campus renowned for its internationally recognised architecture and planning. The campus now boasts one of the most extensive collections of contemporary architecture anywhere in the country. One of most compelling contributions to this program is >Moore Ruble Yudell's Joseph A. Steger Student Life Center. Conceived as part of the university's Main Street Project, the building joins buildings designed by the internationally renowned firms of Morphosis and Gwathmey Siegel to frame a major campus pedestrian spine and a plaza designed by landscape architect George Hargreaves. In an especially brilliant stroke, all three structures overlook the university's Nippert Stadium. Surgically inserted into the campus fabric, the Joseph A. Steger Student Life Center plays multiple roles as an eyecatching landmark, a backdrop to the spaces around it and as a frame for vistas that provide clear pathways through a dense urban campus. A complex structure, it curves nearly six hundred feet in length and fifty-five feet of vertical, creating a long, thin envelope treated as a penetrable ribbon-like form. The dense mix of academic, social and retail programs inside the building, which includes an art gallery, retail store, coffee shop and student government offices, are inseparable from the surrounding campus spaces. By blurring the distinction between interior and exterior, architecture and landscape, the building provides a new model for buildings on other campuses nationwide.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oro Editions
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0979539501
• ISBN 13: 9780979539503
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 112
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible