Driving the change. University Campus of the Southern Scientific University by Plan A
30/03/2023.
[Lima] Peru
metalocus, OSCAR A. SÁNCHEZ
metalocus, OSCAR A. SÁNCHEZ
Architecture studio Plan A has completed the university campus project for the Universidad Científica del Sur, located between bustling neighbourhoods and humble areas of the megalopolis that Lima, Peru, has become. The area in which it is located has direct views of the valley where numerous precarious houses are located, reflecting large areas of the informal city.
In this context and next to the Pan-American highway the backbone of the country, is located this project that helps make a city and become a catalyst for change.
The project proposes an interpretation of the concepts of humanistic and innovative education in a process where teaching goes beyond hierarchical spaces, committing itself to the city and the environment in shared learning and space. The campus, located next to the Pan-American highway, is also a meeting space that broadens the social possibilities to improve the city.
In this context and next to the Pan-American highway the backbone of the country, is located this project that helps make a city and become a catalyst for change.
The project proposes an interpretation of the concepts of humanistic and innovative education in a process where teaching goes beyond hierarchical spaces, committing itself to the city and the environment in shared learning and space. The campus, located next to the Pan-American highway, is also a meeting space that broadens the social possibilities to improve the city.
University Campus of the Southern Scientific University by Plan A. Photograph by Renzo Rebagliati.
University Campus of the Southern Scientific University by Plan A. Photograph by Renzo Rebagliati.
University Campus of the Southern Scientific University by Plan A. Photograph by Renzo Rebagliati.
University Campus of the Southern Scientific University by Plan A. Photograph by Renzo Rebagliati.
University Campus of the Southern Scientific University by Plan A. Photograph by Renzo Rebagliati.
University Campus of the Southern Scientific University by Plan A. Photograph by Renzo Rebagliati.
University Campus of the Southern Scientific University by Plan A. Photograph by Renzo Rebagliati.
University Campus of the Southern Scientific University by Plan A. Photograph by Renzo Rebagliati.
University Campus of the Southern Scientific University by Plan A. Photograph by Renzo Rebagliati.
University Campus of the Southern Scientific University by Plan A. Photograph by Renzo Rebagliati.
University Campus of the Southern Scientific University by Plan A. Photograph by Renzo Rebagliati.
University Campus of the Southern Scientific University by Plan A. Photograph by Renzo Rebagliati.
University Campus of the Southern Scientific University by Plan A. Photograph by Renzo Rebagliati.
University Campus of the Southern Scientific University by Plan A. Photograph by Renzo Rebagliati.
University Campus of the Southern Scientific University by Plan A. Photograph by Renzo Rebagliati.
University Campus of the Southern Scientific University by Plan A. Photograph by Renzo Rebagliati.
University Campus of the Southern Scientific University by Plan A. Photograph by Renzo Rebagliati.
Ground floor plan. University Campus of the Southern Scientific University by Plan A.
First floor plan. University Campus of the Southern Scientific University by Plan A.
Section. University Campus of the Southern Scientific University by Plan A.
Section. University Campus of the Southern Scientific University by Plan A.
Elevation. University Campus of the Southern Scientific University by Plan A.
Axonometry. University Campus of the Southern Scientific University by Plan A.
Axonometry. University Campus of the Southern Scientific University by Plan A.
Diagram. University Campus of the Southern Scientific University by Plan A.
Rendering. University Campus of the Southern Scientific University by Plan A.
Rendering. University Campus of the Southern Scientific University by Plan A.
University Campus of the Southern Scientific University by Plan A. Photograph by Jorge Losada.
Plan A raises the design by multiplying shared meeting spaces, spaces that facilitate interaction between students, promoting a more open way of learning, an articulation of spaces in which it is important to highlight its openness to the city with important and generous assignments of spaces to the city.
Thanks to these spaces, the access, behind the shade that protects the entrance, is hybridized with a square where there is a cafeteria, the library and an auditorium that can be opened to the outside. The rest of the buildings and programs that make up the campus are organized around a boulevard, from which a series of stairs and squares arise that vertically articulate the rest of the program.
Volumetrically, the building consists of 2 elements. The first is a two-story plinth where scientific career laboratories are located, with a roof that is landscaped, and on it, there are different classrooms with views of the Pan-American Highway. The second is the so-called horizontal tower with three floors and a roof terrace, which is expected to grow with three additional floors, a situation of waiting and transit whose formal forcefulness is qualified by a self-supporting metal skin that also serves to illuminate the façade. and give it maintenance.
University Campus of the Southern Scientific University by Plan A. Photograph by Renzo Rebagliati.
University Campus of the Southern Scientific University by Plan A. Photograph by Renzo Rebagliati.
Description of project by Plan A
This university headquarters is located in the ‘Cono norte’ of the megalopolis that Lima has become. Around it there are from populous neighborhoods to more humble areas, passing through the ‘cerros’, product of recent invasions and with abundant precarious housing. A gigantic expanse of brick as far as the eye can see that fills the valley and overflows into the hills that surround it. In this context, next to the Pan-American highway, the backbone of the country, is located this project that, in the first instance, wants to make city and become a catalyst for change.
The project for the "Universidad Cientifica del Sur" combines the principles of a humanistic and innovative education with non-negotiable commitments to the city and the environment. Understanding learning as a shared process —which goes beyond the hierarchical space of the classroom—, the proposal considers the creation of common spaces in which learning occurs at other levels to be key. This shared space is built from the very entrance to the campus, with a cession of 17% of the lot in public areas that will improve the spatial quality of the neighborhood by providing shade, benches, trees and meeting spaces. A courageous decision on the part of the institution that shows its commitment to contribute to the improvement of the city.
University Campus of the Southern Scientific University by Plan A. Photograph by Renzo Rebagliati.
Approaching it from a spatial perspective, behind the shade that protects us at the entrance, a small square brings together a cafeteria, a library and an auditorium that can also be opened to the outside. In the longitudinal sense, a boulevard articulates the campus. Through a system of stairs, bleachers and hanging squares, it is verticalized and offers us several connection options between the ground plane and the green roof that finishes off the plinth. The space then continues inside the tower to reach the roof through a skylight-greenhouse. This generosity of intermediate spaces responds to the intention of building a sustainable, healthy, comfortable, educational and integrated campus.
From an object point of view, the building consists of 2 pieces: firstly, a two-story plinth in which the laboratories of scientific careers are located and which is related to the scale of the neighborhood. This is topped with a landscaped roof and on it rests a large volume of classrooms that has a central void and opens on its front end on the Pan-American highway, becoming a benchmark. Currently this "horizontal tower" has three floors and a roof, although it is planned to grow three additional floors. The rotundity of the tower is qualified by a self-supporting metal skin that also serves to illuminate the façade and maintain it. With this strategy, it is intended to articulate a change of scale that, on the one hand, allows us to incorporate the large number of square meters necessary and that, on the other hand, is already present in the place because it is a border between the fabric of the neighborhood and the Pan-American highway.
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Architects
Plan A. Lead architects.- Michele Albanelli, Jorge Losada.
Project team
Marta Maccaglia, Jahir Velezmoro, Akemi Cabrejos, Carlos Vasquez, Daysi La Madrid, Kelly Núñez, María José Chinguel, Fabio Rodríguez, Ana Lucía Díaz, Franco Ferraro, Joselín Cueto.
Area
Constructed area.- 15,000 m².
Exteriors.- 5,300 m².
Exteriors.- 5,300 m².
Dates
2019-2023.
Location
Óvalo Infantas, Los Olivos, Lima. Peru.
Photography
Renzo Rebagliati. Jorge Losada (Plan A).
Jorge Losada, Mario Alonso Ricci, Michele Albanelli. Plan A
Plan A is an architecture office based in Lima and Piura, Peru, led by Jorge Losada, Mario Alonso Ricci and Michele Albanelli. The partners have studied their careers in Peru, Spain and Italy and have taken postgraduate courses in the United States, Germany and Spain, practicing as professionals and enriching themselves in different contexts. Their team includes architects, interior designers and graphic designers, who allow a comprehensive approach to the architectural project and respond to its complexity from different angles; from spatial quality, technical construction or structural aspects to territorial, urban or landscape dimensions, going through economic or commercial aspects. This polyhedral composition allows them to develop pertinent and specific projects where the skills of each one will be put at the service of the client's proposals.
Jorge Losada is a Doctor of Architecture from the University of Navarra. His research focuses on theory, criticism and history of the modern and contemporary project. He has a master's degree in Landscape and Environment. His work is distributed in the professional field, research and teaching. He has taught Project courses at the University of Navarra and at the University of Piura. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University and the Milan Polytechnic, a Visiting Critic at the University of Otaniemi, and a Visiting Researcher at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. He has participated in numerous conferences and published research articles in different national and international journals. Since 2014 he has been working in the Architecture Program of the University of Piura (Peru) as Ordinary Professor in the Project Area, of which he is also coordinator.
Mario Alonso Ricci is an architect from the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences (UPC) with a master's degree in product design research from the IED (Istituto Europeo di Design) in Madrid and a master's degree in User Experience Design (UX) from the International University from La Rioja, Spain. He has been teaching project courses for almost 15 years, and is currently the academic director of the professional interior design program at the UPC and Co-founder of the design collective Peru Design Collective. He has been an exhibitor at Milan Design Week (2017 and 2018), a speaker at MADE18 (Sao Paulo, Brazil) and Pecha Kucha Night Lima.
Michele Albanelli is an architect, Master of Architecture, Stäedelschule Architecture Class in Frankfurt am Main, 2009. In 2008 he received the Gunther Bock Prize scholarship. He is co-director of the architecture studios DIADIA Arquitectura and Plan A0100, both in Lima (Peru), from where he conceives and develops projects of various kinds and scales, collaboratively and with particular emphasis on the playful and educational dimension of space. He is the author of the book Learning Spaces, in the process of being published by the UPC Peruvian University of Applied Sciences (Lima, 2021). Albanelli is a Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and Professor of Design, Architecture and the City at Colegio Aleph, where he promotes the integration of architecture as a cultural form in the school curriculum.
Jorge Losada is a Doctor of Architecture from the University of Navarra. His research focuses on theory, criticism and history of the modern and contemporary project. He has a master's degree in Landscape and Environment. His work is distributed in the professional field, research and teaching. He has taught Project courses at the University of Navarra and at the University of Piura. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University and the Milan Polytechnic, a Visiting Critic at the University of Otaniemi, and a Visiting Researcher at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. He has participated in numerous conferences and published research articles in different national and international journals. Since 2014 he has been working in the Architecture Program of the University of Piura (Peru) as Ordinary Professor in the Project Area, of which he is also coordinator.
Mario Alonso Ricci is an architect from the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences (UPC) with a master's degree in product design research from the IED (Istituto Europeo di Design) in Madrid and a master's degree in User Experience Design (UX) from the International University from La Rioja, Spain. He has been teaching project courses for almost 15 years, and is currently the academic director of the professional interior design program at the UPC and Co-founder of the design collective Peru Design Collective. He has been an exhibitor at Milan Design Week (2017 and 2018), a speaker at MADE18 (Sao Paulo, Brazil) and Pecha Kucha Night Lima.
Michele Albanelli is an architect, Master of Architecture, Stäedelschule Architecture Class in Frankfurt am Main, 2009. In 2008 he received the Gunther Bock Prize scholarship. He is co-director of the architecture studios DIADIA Arquitectura and Plan A0100, both in Lima (Peru), from where he conceives and develops projects of various kinds and scales, collaboratively and with particular emphasis on the playful and educational dimension of space. He is the author of the book Learning Spaces, in the process of being published by the UPC Peruvian University of Applied Sciences (Lima, 2021). Albanelli is a Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and Professor of Design, Architecture and the City at Colegio Aleph, where he promotes the integration of architecture as a cultural form in the school curriculum.
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