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Architects: BDG Architecten, Office Winhov, Office haratori
- Area: 12410 m²
- Year: 2016
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Photographs:Stefan Müller
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Manufacturers: AGC, De Haas & Heesterbeek, Hamer Hoogheuvel, Hurks, Kone, Logus Prefab, Manntech, Rollecate, Steenhuis Beton
Text description provided by the architects. Work began on building the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in 1957 based on the urban development plan of S.J. van Embden. His design aimed at creating an idealised factory environment for technical research and study consisting of tall, modern buildings on stilts that were connected with one another and with the laboratories and workshops located in between them by means of aerial walkways. The plan followed the modern ideal of self-contained buildings in a continuous landscape. The rational structure in which the buildings followed a fixed grid pattern was expressed in the curtain walls of the first generation of buildings on the campus. A master plan for the re organisation and expansion of the campus has been drawn up following the original design. It envisages the introduction of accommodation for students and researchers on the north side of the campus on the edge of the green brook valley of the Dommel.
