Big Pond
Universities are sometimes described as giant daycare centres for bright but otherwise unemployable youth, and the lack of urban amenities on most suburban campuses does little to dispel that notion. The University of British Columbia?s new Ponderosa Commons complex?designed for teaching, research, art-making, lounging, eating, living and sleeping?is conceived as something of a full-service community. The multi-phase project, designed by KPMB Architects in joint venture with HCMA Architecture + Design, is in many ways a test case for the myths and realities about creating a vibrant community. ?The Pond,? as it?s affectionately known, is designed to provide not just more student shelter but also more safety, social animation and connection. As such, the project presents not just a paradigm for a campus, but a microcosm of a city. Ponderosa Commons. Photo by Adrien Williams.
Led by Shirley Blumberg at KPMB Architects and Karen Marler at HCMA Architecture + Design, the dual design teams have brought to fruition the two phases of what is arguably the most ambitiously urbane project on campus as the university winds up its eighth year of a 10-year transformation plan. For UBC?s chief architect, Gerry McGeough, Ponderosa Commons is in some ways a distillation of the decade?s work. When he implemented the current master plan, he faced the daunting challenge of a campus built on a peninsula segregated from seven square kilometres of parkland. McGeough has ramped up the calibre of i...
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