From the beginning of the 1960s Utrecht University campus has been located outside the city, on the De Uithof terrain. A master plan by OMA/Rem Koolhaas from the early 1990s designated zones to be filled with high-density development to spare the landscape. Each zone has been given a character of its own.
The Faculty for Economics and Management, for five thousand students and four hundred staff, lies in a zone known as the ‘Casbah’. Based on the notion of this traditional North African form of settlement, the long shallow building has only three storeys with a neutral facade enclosing a sheltered world of patios, rooms, halls, footbridges, stairs and leisure places.
Status: Built
Additional Credits: programme
23,500 m2 faculty building for 5,000 students and 400 employees including 4 lecture halls, 12 small lecture halls, offices, restaurant, meeting areas with multimedia facilities
client
Stichting FEHU
project address
Padualaan 101, Utrecht, Netherlands
design
1991 -1992
realization
1993 -1995
awards
1993, Nomination Mies van der Rohe Pavilion Award for European Architecture
European Union and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona.
