OMA wins first competition for Chu Hai College Campus in Hong Kong

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OMA in association with Leigh & Orange Architects have won the international competition for a 28,000m2 campus for the Chu Hai College of Higher Education in Hong Kong.

The project consists on two 8-stories tall parallel volumes with a rich public space in between, housing three faculties (arts, science and engineering, business), with 10 departments and 2 research centers.

What I like about this project is how OMA incorporated the multidisciplinary focus of this college, trough a rich public space between these two volumes, a topography with library, cafeteria, gym and lecture theaters, which given its ramps, steps and shaded platforms, generate several different spaces for socializing, meeting, studying, etc. So, students from this 3 faculties will flow into this central public space, mixing together.

This project is led by Rem Koolhaas, General Manager of OMA Asia (Hong Kong) David Gianotten and associate Chris van Duijn.

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Cite: David Basulto. "OMA wins first competition for Chu Hai College Campus in Hong Kong" 15 Jan 2010. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/46692/oma-wins-first-competition-for-chu-hai-college-campus-in-hong-kong> ISSN 0719-8884

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