Saturday, 8 September 2012

W.U.C.E. - Initial Project Direction

As a group some key decisions have been made regarding the progress of W.U.C.E.  As a group it has been decided the best way forward would be to continue working as a group throughout the site planning, master planning phases of the project.  This decision has been made to allow the oppurtunity to combine each persons individual buildings at the end of the project and present the entire W.U.C.E.

With this decision made we begun the planning phases of the next project.

Some initial brief information (Setting the scene in 2025):
  • Currently, W.U.C.E. caters for 3000 students building towards a maximum year round capacity of 5000 students.
  • There are currently 700 people living on campus in a range of accommodation arrangements.
  • A strong emphasis on walking throughout the site and using public transport to travel to and from Woodfordia
  • An initial maximum building height has been set at 15m
Some facilities required within the W.U.C.E. are:
  • Administration facilities
  • conference/exhibition centre
  • library/resource centre
  • IT facilities
  • student & staff accommodation
  • multiple teaching spaces in a range of sizes and configurations
  • workshop spaces
  • student guild facilities
  • student services
  • food/general store facilities

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