THREE ACADEMIES
A Campus For Ljubljana

This is a work within the scope of the masterthesis at the Münster School of Architecture [MSA].

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The spatial organisation system ‘campus’ is used more and more in Europe. The spatial linking of learning, working and living proved itself already in the Anglo-American area. But there is the question if this organisation system is unrestricted transferable to European cities.

The work in hand carries out a new definition of the notion ‘campus’. This definition is not modelling itself on the american ideal mini-city, but it describes the campus as a space for the university against the background of the cultural, historical, organisational and architectural context in Europe. In the task of Ljubljana the notion ‘campus’ was newly interpreted and adjusted to european requirements. The typologies of a classical campus, the representative building, the open field and the study-building, were taken up in order to apply to the urban situation - a recombination in the urban context of the little european capital Ljubljana.