2013-05-19T22:41:50-04:00 http://archinect.com/news/article/10728370/faculty-club-tilburg-university-by-shift-architecture-urbanism Paul Petrunia 2011-06-21T18:30:35-04:00 >2011-11-24T09:05:52-05:00 <img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/h1/h16ctab6f3exnx1j.jpg" width="514" height="343" border="0" title="" alt="" /><p> Tilburg University has extended its campus with the Faculty Club, a multipurpose pavilion for the academic staff and their guests. Shift architecture urbanism took the initiative to reanimate the quintessential quality of the Tilburg campus: strong solitary buildings in the green. The monumental modernism of Jos Bedaux served as a frame of reference. Bedaux designed the first - still the best - buildings for the university in the sixties.</p> <p> <img alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/h4/h4t58yhmms3wzjp4.jpg"></p> <p> By creating a strong formal relation between the existing university buildings and the new Faculty Club, an ensemble of omni-directional solitaires is created. This enables one to recognize the Faculty Club as part of the university, despite its peripheral forest location and exclusive program.</p> <p> <img alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/0x/0xfr0r11b4ag6eop.jpg"></p> <p> The Faculty Club is designed as a carved-out-monolith, one simple box in which transparency and massiveness melt together. The central restaurant is carved out from the centre, creating a tunnel-effect in the front fa&ccedil;ade. In order to strengthen ...</p>