White concrete shutters front Brazilian university building
A covered street cuts through this new university campus building in northern Brazil designed by Rede Arquitetos, Croquis Projetos and Neudson Braga, providing a shaded and breezy area for students to socialise between classes.
The building expands the Universidade Federal do Ceará's (UFC) campus in the Brazilian town of Crateús with classrooms, laboratories, offices and flexible spaces. It is the second structure built on the new campus, and is part of a larger development scheme for the UFC.
Three architecture studios collaborated on the design. The team was made up of architect Neudson Braga, with firms Rede Arquitectos and Custodio Santos Arquitetura, formerly known as Croquis Projectos.
Many aspects of the design were driven by the region's arid climate. The team employed several strategies to help keep the building cool, including using white concrete for the exterior, large pivoting brise-soleils on the facade, and screening certain areas with patterned concrete blocks to improve air flow.
The central spine that cuts through the building helps students, faculty, and staff move about without needing to go outside. The column-free space was achieved by having light steel trusses span between each half of the building.
"The structure of the wings is of reinforced concrete and of steel in the covering of the central void and the module of coexistence, without pillars interrupting the internal route," the team said in a project description.
Conceptually, th...
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