Architecture practice BIG has revealed its designs for a 12-building AI and cybersecurity campus in Bratislava, Slovakia, that will be visually connected by undulating solar roofs.
Designed as a "tech neighbourhood", the development will contain the headquarters for Slovak internet security company ESET. It is set to be built on the site of a former military hospital in Patronka, in the west of Slovakia's capital city.
Top: ESET Campus is an AI and cybersecurity hub in Slovakia that was designed by BIG. Above: the design of the development references the hilly terrain
The AI and cybersecurity hub will be designed by BIG with Slovak architecture studio Inflow, and engineering studios Buro Happold and Arup. The 55,000-square metre development will have 12 buildings of different sizes and uses organised around a central courtyard and surrounded by landscaped public spaces. Although individual, detached structures, the campus will be visually unified through its undulating roof. This will rise, taper and dips across its 12 volumes to evoke the nearby Carpathian Mountains.
The campus is comprised of 12 volumes that rise and shorter in height
Buildings located along the outer edge of the campus will house public amenities, while four buildings located at the centre of the campus will house ESET's headquarters and 1,500 employees.
"Rather than a single hermetic entity, we have dissolved the ESET Campus into an urban village of interconnected buildings, framing publ...