Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects is part of the winning SPARK consortium to design the new educational facility for the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht in the Netherlands. The new educational facility completes the existing ?Kasbah? master plan and will provide space for over 6,500 students, staff and visitors, as well as house seven institutes. 

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Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects is part of the winning SPARK consortium to design the new educational facility for the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht in the Netherlands. The new educational facility completes the existing ?Kasbah? master plan and will provide space for over 6,500 students, staff and visitors, as well as house seven institutes. "It forms a strong and clear mark on the site, where it will activate and support the dynamic life on the campus," says the architects.
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From the architects: The new educational facility will offer two large 200+ seat auditoriums, two smaller auditoriums, TV / radio studios, a knowledge centre, classrooms, café, food shops and parking for more than 1,200 bicycles.The project will create a new inner courtyard facing the neighboring student housing block from where the volume steps up towards the east façade allowing it to connect with the existing buildings. This creates a building that is activated from all sides.

Ground Floor. Image © Schmidt Hammer Lassen

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