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ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS

The University of Economics & Business, Vienna will build a new campus, (masterplan: BUSarchitecture) with the Library and Learning Center (LLC) in the centre of the campus. Zaha Hadid Architects has won the two phase competition for the Library and Learning Center, announced on November 2008. Here are the details of competition and the winning design;

Program
The LLC provides a significant upgrade to the university’s services with workplaces, lounges and cloakrooms, library, language laboratory, training classrooms, administration offices, study services and central supporting services, copy shop, book shop, data center, cafeteria, event area, clubroom and auditorium.
In total, the LLC is approximately 28,000m² (net) / 42.000m² (gross). The maximum dimensions of the building are 136m length, 76m width and 30m height (5 floors)

Design
The new Library and Learning Centre rises as a polygonal block from the centre of the new university campus. The LLC’s design takes the form of a cube with both inclined and straight edges. The straight lines of the building’s exterior separate as they move inward, becoming curvilinear and fluid, generating a free‐formed interior canyon that serves as the central public plaza. All the other facilities of the LLC are housed within a single volume that also divides, becoming two separate ribbons that wind around each other to enclose this glazed gathering space.

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Competiton

Two phase competition with six competitors in the first phase and three in the second phase.
1st prize Zaha Hadid Architects
2nd prize Morphosis
3rd prize Prof. Hans Hollein
Other competitors: Studio Massimiliano Fuksas , Kada Wittfeld Studio
Start first phase: August 2008
Start second phase: October 2008
Decision: November 2008
Jury: Wolf D. Prix (head of jury) ,Dietmar Eberle,Laura P. Spinadel (BUS Architekten, new campus masterplanner),Peter Ehrenberger,Sepp Frank,Brian Cody

Zaha Hadid Architects:
Design Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher
Project Architect Cornelius Schlotthauer

Project Team Marc‐Philipp Nieberg, Kristoph Nowak, Enrico Kleinke, Stefan Rinnebach, Niels Kespohl, Jan Hübener, Romy Heiland, Richard Baumgartner
Consultants:

Structural Engineers: Arup Berlin
M&E Engineers: Arup Berlin
Façade Engineers: Arup Berlin
Cost Consultant: ATP Wien
Fire protection: HHP West, Bielefeld
Render Studio: Vectorvision, Leipzig

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