The contextual form of the campus center design in Bandung Institute of Technology area

Contextual architecture is a concept used in creating building design and functions with due consideration for local characteristics to ensure sustainability with the surrounding or pre-existing conditions. The Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) campus is divided into three zones which are heritage or traditional, transition, and modern. A building is, however, located between the heritage and transition zones which are known as the Campus Center and considered to have damaged the zoning division on the master plan for the area due to the presence of new modern building designs. This study was, therefore, conducted to determine the common thread existing between the Campus Center and the surrounding two zones, the heritage zone with the West Hall case, and the transition zone with the engineering laboratory V case. Descriptive, analytic, and interpretative methods, with contextual theory, archetypes, ordering principles were used and the results showed the three buildings have a common thread which includes the roofs, columns, hallways, and corridors but only the Campus Center has columns, hallways, and corridors. The findings of this study are expected to provide theoretical and pragmatic benefits for writers and readers. Theoretically, the object dissection knowledge with archetypes and order elements to obtain the contextual forms of the building was provided while the pragmatic aspect focuses on understanding the contextual form of modern buildings.

Rituales de libertad: disciplina y biopolítica de la arquitectura docente

Según Michel Foucault y Peter Sloterdijk la arquitectura es un conjunto de técnicas y dispositivos materiales cuyo objetivo es producir sujetos domesticados según un tipo específico de poder. La arquitectura propia del poder disciplinar pretende producir individuos homogéneos acordes con una norma ideal definida a priori a través de unos rituales espaciales lineales y unívocos. En cambio, la arquitectura propia del poder biopolítico utiliza la interconexión de espacios y la indeterminación programática con el objetivo de hacer funcionar la libertad de las personas como medio de auto-domesticación productiva. Dado que la arquitectura docente es una de las principales categorías arquitectónicas involucradas en la producción de sujetos, analizamos tres proyectos paradigmáticos –el colegio Sant’Elia de Giuseppe Terragni, la escuela en Broni de Aldo Rossi y el McCormick Tribune Campus Center de OMA- que muestran el modo en que la arquitectura ritualiza la conducta de sus usuarios.

Re-Designing, Humanizing and Globalizing Higher ducation: Disruptive Strategies for Business School Leadership from the Bottom Up

This paper highlights disruptive strategies to move students from the classroom and traditional business education to using their skills in impoverished villages in the Third World. Beginning in the late 1990s, innovations were designed by faculty and students to roll out a pro-poor agenda that includes the following: Student-led microfinance NGO spinoffs, accounting school faculty and students offering financial training and services, MPA student initiatives that assist African village leaders, annual social entrepreneurship conferences, the establishing of a campus center for economic self-reliance, and more. We will describe the leadership processes that evolved as these and other campus programs were established and rolled out to effect real social change across the globe. As described below, many of these efforts began at the lower level of the university, among students and professors, not at the top. However, this kind of higher education leadership from below promises exciting and path-breaking new strategies for higher education scholars and practitioners everywhere, especially within the context of schools of management.

Mapping Activities in Recreational Trail With Spatial Video

Understanding the usage patterns of a trail in a university environment is crucial for assessing the functionality of the trail and evaluating its impact to health in college students. This article presents a novel approach to map the usage patterns of a university trail by employing spatial video in a geographic information system (GIS) environment. Physical activities in the southeast part of the main campus of Kent State University (Kent, Ohio), were filmed by a GPS-enabled camera unit. The observed physical activities at the time of filming were coded from the videos and visualized as maps. The study finds that activities tend to concentrate near the center of campus, the farther from the campus, the fewer number of activities. The usage patterns are different between men and women. The activity zones of men are more dispersed, while those of women are more concentrated near campus center.

Biuer... Chicago! Un argumento surrealista para el McCormick Tribune Campus Center

Resumen Se tiende a considerar el McCormick Tribune Campus Center bajo una filiación pop. Sin descartar la evidencia del influjo de Robet Venturi, el artículo argumenta la raigambre surrealista, velada por su colorista y desenfadada retórica. Esta hipótesis no sería incoherente con el aprecio de Rem Koolhaas por las técnicas surrealistas (patentes en Delirious New York) y la apreciación de rasgos surrealistas en su obra temprana por parte de terceros. Se analizan, sobre aspectos concretos del edificio terminado y sobre documentos de desarrollo del proyecto, mecanismos destinados a producir efectos similares a los que los surrealistas perseguían con sus prácticas: la intensificación de la realidad más allá de la pura racionalidad. También sería coherente con el aliento de crítica epistémica que recibe el proyecto de las bases del concurso que le dio lugar, y que motivó la respuesta de Koolhaas mediante el binomio que forman el edificio y su panfleto coetáneo, Junkspace.AbstractUnder its casual and colorful appearance, the McCormick Tribune Campus Center built in 2003 at the Chicago IIT campus by Rem Koolhaas constitutes a perplexing -hard to grasp conceptually- architectural piece. The commission origin was an international competition whose bases demanded a building “equal in stature to Mies van der Rohe’s S. R. Crown Hall” that “will express the architecture of our time”. According to Koolhaas, the building, in which he subverts all kind of disciplinary categories that shape Mies’s work, is a built response to the condition of our time described in Junkspace, a text written in parallel to its construction proccess. The article argues that a surreal halo shines under its pop aesthetic. Being its significance reinforced by Koolhaas’ clear appreciation of the findings of the Surrealists -among whom, especially, Dalí’s paranoid-critical method-, it may constitute a clue of deeper arguments that, steeping the strategy and methodology of the project, contribute to articulate the construct with which its author gives response to the competition intellectual demands.