scholarly journals The Campus of the University of Brasilia

2010 ◽  
pp. 44-47
Author(s):  
Andrey Rosenthal Schlee
Keyword(s):  
University Campus ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

The Pilot Plan of the new Brazilian Federal Capital, by Lúcio Costa, was selected in a public competition held in 1957. The city was inaugurated barely three years later by President Juscelino Kubitschek, in April 1960, when the official creation of the University of Brasilia became a reality. Preparing to celebrate fifty years of existence, the University campus probably represents the most accomplished set of Brutalist architecture in the country and an excellent sample of the inventive resources of Brazilian architects. A functionalist city inside another. They are distinct from each other, but both dignified and worthy of documentation and preservation actions.

scholarly journals Delta Project, Towards a Sustainable Campus

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Héctor Hugo ◽  
Felipe Espinoza ◽  
Ivetheyamel Morales ◽  
Elías Ortiz ◽  
Saúl Pérez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
City Council ◽  
Business Community ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Living Lab ◽  
Working Groups ◽  
Area Of Influence ◽  
External Actors ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town

The University of Guayaquil, which shares the same name as the city where it is located, faces the challenge of transforming its image for the XXI century. It was deemed necessary to identify details about the urban evolution of the historic link with the city, in relation to the changes produced by the project’s siting and its direct area of influence. The goal is to integrate the main university campus within a framework which guarantees sustainability and allows innovation in the living lab. To achieve this, the action research method was applied, focused on participation and the logic framework. For the diagnosis, proposal, and management model, integrated working groups were organized with internal users such as professors, students, and university authorities, and external actors such as residents, the local business community, Guayaquil city council, and the Governorate of Guayas. As result of the diagnosis, six different analysis dimensions were established which correspond to the new urban agenda for the future campus: compactness, inclusiveness, resilience, sustainability, safety and participation. As a proposal, the urban design integrates the analysis dimensions whose financing and execution are given by the Town Hall, at the same time the Governorate integrates the campus with its network of community police headquarters.

scholarly journals The Hellenic Open University Cosmic Ray Telescope: Research and Educational Activities

2018 ◽  
Vol 182 ◽  
pp. 02072 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Leisos ◽  
T. Avgitas ◽  
G. Bourlis ◽  
G.K. Fanourakis ◽  
I. Gkialas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
Open University ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Air Showers ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Rf Antennas ◽  
Primary Particles ◽  
Plastic Scintillators ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

The Hellenic Open University Cosmic Ray Telescope consists of three autonomous stations installed at the University Campus in the city of Patras. Each station comprises three large (≈ 1 m2) plastic scintillators and one or more Codalema type RF antennas detecting Extensive Air Showers (EAS), originating from primary particles with energy greater than 10 TeV. The operation and the performance of the Telescope is presented briefly, emphasising the educational activities foreseen in the framework of the HEllenic LYceum Cosmic Observatories Network (HELYCON).

scholarly journals Research on Sponge Campus Application Based on Low Impact Development Measures--A Case Study of Wuhan Polytechnic University

2019 ◽  
Vol 118 ◽  
pp. 04021
Author(s):  
Jingjing Liu ◽  
Haoyu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
Rainwater Harvesting ◽  
Low Impact Development ◽  
System Model ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Artificial Lake ◽  
Planning And Construction ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Swmm Model

In recent years, China has vigorously promoted the construction of sponge cities and achieved good results. The university campus is a relatively independent existence in the city. Due to historical planning and construction reasons, it is easy to accumulate water when the city has a large amount of precipitation. Taking Wuhan Polytechnic University as an example, this paper analyzes the causes of waterlogging on campus from the aspects of urban precipitation, campus planning, rainwater harvesting and utilization, and proposes a series of low-impact development (LID) measures, such as increasing the permeability of paving area, building vegetative ditch, setting up infiltration green belt, and renovating the artificial lake in the school. The author adopted the SWMM model of urban stormwater management developed by the U.S.EPA as a carrier to construct a low-impact rainwater system model, The SWMM model which funded by the US Environmental Protection Agency was used to construct a low-impact development rainwater system model to evaluate the effect of low-impact development measures on ground runoff control.

The influence of location and season on the concentrations of macroions and organic trace pollutants in roof runoff

1998 ◽  
Vol 38 (10) ◽  
pp. 83-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürgen Förster
Keyword(s):  
Inorganic Ions ◽  
Pollution Level ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Roof Runoff ◽  
Roof Material ◽  
Order Of Magnitude ◽  
The University ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The City

In a study of the quality of runoff from roof surfaces, five individual house roofs in the city of Bayreuth, Germany, were compared with experimental roofs on the university campus and with the depositing precipitation. While the city locations all had different exposition characteristics, the campus site experienced urban background conditions without local emissions on or nearby the roofs. The concentrations of the substances under investigation showed a high degree of variability both within and in between single precipitation events. While the wet deposition load of organic micropollutants is increased by washoff of dryly deposited substances (e.g. PAH, ammonium) from the roof surfaces, the concentrations of inorganic ions like calcium were also increased by leaching from the roof material itself. For both processes, there were marked differences between the roofs studied. PAH concentrations in runoff from one roof receiving emissions from old heating systems were elevated by more than one order of magnitude. According to the source variability for the respective substances, seasonal trends could also be detected. The investigation shows that it is difficult to generalise the pollution level of roof runoff even within a small area. This has to be taken into account for the planning of alternative urban drainage systems like infiltration facilities.

scholarly journals CAMPUSES, AS A CENTER FOR SOCIAL LIFE OF A CITY

2020 ◽  
pp. 106-113
Author(s):  
V. O. Malashenkova ◽  
◽  
S. R. Petrovska ◽  
O. L. Chorna ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
University Campus ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Spatial Environment ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

The article is devoted to the modern principles of architectural and spatial organization of campuses, creating the image of the University using the architectural appearance of the University campus. It were explored ways of creating a comfortable spatial environment and urban development strategy for the successful educational space of the University, the principles of creating new typological objects for the needs of modern educational technologies, integration of the learning process into the social life of the city, exchange of information between specialists and their communication with residents of the city was considered. The article touches upon the issue of constructing of modern University campuses, project strategies for achieving better quality of education, and conditions for the harmonious development of the individual were discussed. Using the example of the Vienna University of Economics campus, we consider the method of forming an intra-block pedestrian space with the definition of main characteristics of buildings that make up the University campus. The combination of landscape and architectural structures is the hallmark of every University. One of the main planning ideas of a modern campus is to form a single architectural and spatial environment. Attention is focused on interesting objects of the urban environment as centers of architectural compositions. The principles and experience of creating a humane public space with the preservation and renovation of historical landscape and recreational areas in the center of Vienna were described. The research is carried out in order to find the optimal type of spatial organization of the University campus that meets modern requirements.

scholarly journals Innovative Transport Pressure Management Models for Efficient Transportation Management in the RUDN-University

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarita Redina ◽  
Elena Savenkova ◽  
Aleksandr Khaustov ◽  
Polina Silaeva
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Quality ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Transportation Management ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Traffic System ◽  
Environmental Monitoring System ◽  
Underground Station ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

The main transport flows on the RUDN territory are caused by the city public and private transport. The general transportation scheme around and through the campus develops some decades. Today this is a huge traffic system with high technogenic pressure on the surrounding ecosystems. The efforts of the university only on the organization of bike transport and shuttle buses cannot protect in this situation our territory. Thus, the university in collaboration with the Moscow government try to solve the transportation problem: a new underground station named RUDN will be built – this must help to optimize transport flows. Transportation management in the university campus (especially situated in the city) needs to apply reliable models for the optimization of transport pressure. That is why, for the RUDNUniversity campus in the South-West of Moscow, we try to develop the most sensitive indicators and to control a set of technogenic factors affecting environmental quality. The unique environmental monitoring system of the RUDN campus able to evaluate the environmental state of the territory and to contribute to maintaining the environmental quality is now under development. The primary results were presented in September 2019 during the first UI Green Metric World Sustainable Campuses Tour in RUDN.

scholarly journals Delta Project: Towards a Sustainable Campus

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 3695 ◽  
Author(s):  
Héctor Hugo ◽  
Felipe Espinoza ◽  
Ivetheyamel Morales ◽  
Elías Ortiz ◽  
Saúl Pérez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
City Council ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Image Transformation ◽  
Living Lab ◽  
Working Groups ◽  
Area Of Influence ◽  
External Actors ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
New Urban Agenda

The University of Guayaquil, which shares the same name as the city where it is located, faces the challenge of its image transformation for the 21st century. It was deemed necessary to identify details about the urban evolution of the city over time, in relation to the changes produced by the project’s site and its direct area of influence. The goal is to integrate the main university campus within a framework which guarantees sustainability and allows innovation in the living lab. To achieve this, the action research method was applied, focused on the community participation and the logic framework. The proposal, the management model, and the integrated working groups were organized with internal users such as professors, students, and university authorities, and external actors such as residents, local business communities, Guayaquil city council, and its local mayor and governor. As result of the diagnosis, six different analysis dimensions were established which correspond to the new urban agenda for the future campus: compactness, inclusiveness, resilience, sustainability, safety, and participation. As a proposal, the urban design integrates the analysis of the dimensions whose financial support and execution are given by the municipality authorities that integrates the campus with its network of community police headquarters.

scholarly journals Soil Sealing and Hydrological Changes during the Development of the University Campus of Elche (Spain)

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (18) ◽  
pp. 9511
Author(s):  
Manon Navarro-Leblond ◽  
Ignacio Meléndez-Pastor ◽  
Jose Navarro-Pedreño ◽  
Ignacio Gómez Lucas
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Irrigation System ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Surface Hydrology ◽  
Land Occupation ◽  
Soil Sealing ◽  
The North ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

The University Miguel Hernández of Elche was created in 1996 and its headquarters is located in the city of Elche. A new campus was developed where new buildings and infrastructures have been established for over 25 years in the north of the city. The university is growing, and the land cover/land use is changing, adapted to the new infrastructures. In fact, the landscape changed from a periurban agricultural area mixed with other activities into an urbanized area integrated into the city. The purpose of this work was to evaluate the progressive sealing of the soil and the consequences on the surface hydrology. The area is close to the Palmeral of Elche, a landscape of date palm groves with an ancient irrigation system, which is a World Heritage Cultural Landscape recognized by UNESCO. The evolution of the land occupation was analyzed based on the Aerial National Orthophotography Plan (PNOA). Soil sealing and the modifications of the hydrological ancient irrigation system were detected. Based on the results, proposals for improvement are made in order to implement green infrastructures and landscape recovery that can alleviate the possible negative effects of the soil sealing in the area occupied by the university.

scholarly journals Zrównoważony i innowacyjny kampus uniwersytecki na przykładzie kampusu Szkoły Głównej Handlowej w Warszawie

2020 ◽  
pp. 69-87
Author(s):  
Marek Bryx
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Spatial Order ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

Sustainable development is a concept that is already established in our consciousness. It can be assumed that, in relation to the city, it means the implementation of 4 principles (goals) that such a city and its inhabitants should strive to achieve (Szelągowska, Bryx 2015), namely: 1. Aspire to be close to the ecosystem, obtaining spatial order with the least possible interference in this ecosystem. 2. Produce no more waste than the city can assimilate, while consuming no more resources than it can recreate. 3. To promote and consolidate a lifestyle consistent with the above principles, which all residents create by their daily conduct, not just the city authorities. 4. Comply with the principles of honesty and justice. This definition, a little too detailed, aims to highlight two aspects of sustainable development: human proximity to the environment and ethics in human behaviour towards the natural and social environment. The university campus is part of the city, intellectually radiating, forging and disseminating new concepts. By disseminating the idea of a sustainable city, the campus should be an example of implementing these principles in a community constituting an urban enclave. Answering the questions: is this happening? and is it possible at universities that were created before the emergence of the idea of sustainable development ? is the purpose of this article. The author, considering these issues, uses the experience of the campus of the Warsaw School of Economics, designed 100 years ago, constructed in stages and seeking its path of development.

scholarly journals University food environment: characterization and changes from 2011 to 2016 in a Brazilian public university

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda da Silva FRANCO ◽  
Daniela Silva CANELLA ◽  
Patrícia Maria Périco PEREZ ◽  
Daniel Henrique BANDONI ◽  
Inês Rugani Ribeiro de CASTRO
Keyword(s):  
Food Environment ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
Public University ◽  
Processed Foods ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Relative Disadvantage ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

ABSTRACT Objective To describe the food environment of a public university located in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and to review the changes that occurred between the years 2011 and 2016. Methods Time trend study (through repeated cross-sectional studies) of the sale of food, culinary preparations and beverages in the University Campus establishments in 2011, 2012 and 2016. Variables regarding the description of the establishments and the offer, price and advertising of food, beverages and culinary preparations were assessed through a checklist. Comparisons between establishments in each year and the analysis of such comparison changes during the period were performed by assessing the difference between absolute and relative values observed in each year. Results Increased number of establishments available, good convenience and financial accessibility were observed. There was a relative disadvantage in the availability of fresh or minimally processed foods and culinary preparations; a predominance of advertising of ultra-processed foods; and lack of nutritional information of culinary preparations. The predominance of establishments selling snacks and candies increased over the years. Conclusion In the period studied, the university food environment did not favor healthy food choices.

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