Sasaki was tasked with creating a vibrant center for Engineering Innovation Center that fosters collaboration, knowledge sharing, and cross-disciplinary thinking among the students, local industry, and fellow regional institutions. To achieve this, the team designed a social armature of open terraces, multi-level atriums, and collaboration zones that serve as the program?s focal point, encouraging visitors to circulate the building in different ways.
Engineering Innovation Center’s Design Concept
Located in the heart of campus across from the new Student Life, Recreation, & Wellness Center, the Engineering Innovation Center at the Universidad de Lima introduces a new network of engineering hubs that are closely aligned with the emerging industries of Peru. Woven across the 5-story complex is a series of collaboration spaces, classrooms, and an entrepreneurship center that features pitch spaces, both graduate and undergraduate workshops, a multi-use auditorium, and flexible working areas for companies in residence. © Eleazar Cuadros; Renzo Rebagliati
A diverse program for an emerging student body
The Engineering Innovation Center is the physical manifestation of the new enterprise-university collaboration model and the university?s shift from traditional engineering instruction to applied research in emerging technologies. Bringing disparate departments together for the first time under one roof, the new building is designed to showcase student projects, enterpri...