Wolkite University (2018)

1. Prize – Conceptual Master Plan: Wolkite University, Ethiopia – Gubreye Biotech Campus City

Wolkite University aims to increase it‘s student, teacher and researcher community from app. 10.000 persons today to app. 50.000 persons within the next 15 years. To accomodate the new necessary housing, teaching and reasearch facilities the project proposes to fully keep the existing buildings and wrapping them with the new developments. The open space concept focuses on advanced rainwater management to allow sensitive use of the scarce resource. Secondary focus is to create a walkable open space network and communicative semi private open spaces within residential housing clusters.

Located at the heart of the new Campu-City will be the Student Village. The undefined open areas between the buildings will be used to add new housing in a variety of typologies, creating a moderately densified neighbourhood with pleasant semipublic squares, paths and courtyards. New faculty quarters will be created all around the central Campus housing areas. A ring of public areas will surround the central zones of the Campus City, giving easy orientation, providing a connected system of primary public spaces and articulating the zoning between inner and outer areas of the masterplan. Binding all areas is a communal space newly interpreting the Jaforé, the open space a the heart of local traditional villages.

  • Client: Wolkite University, Ethiopia
  • Area: app. 276 ha
  • Project: 2018 – ongoing
  • Submitted: Integrated Urban and Landscape Conceptual Master Plan
  • Rewarded 1. Prize in International Design Competition in 2016
  • Cooperation with bb22 Architekten und Stadtplaner GBR and Ethiopian architects OADUS architecture and urban design and BOTA architecture
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