2007 - Dublin, Ireland
University College Dublin
Dublin, Ireland
CLIENT University College Dublin / STATUS Competition Finalist, 2007 / DESIGN TEAM Balmori Associates / Zaha Hadid Architects
In collaboration with Zaha Hadid, Balmori Associates submitted a master plan for the expansion of the University College in Dublin. This design proposed hybridity as a strategy to create new building and landscape typologies. Landscape and architecture merged to form continuous multi-layered public surfaces and green building facades. The slopes that transitioned between the path and the buildings were exemplary of the thickening interface. They were layered with plantings and materials and became usable and occupiable spaces that extend the landscape to a 5th facade of roof garden. This interface also became a sustainable strategy that aimed to maximize campus biodiversity by extending existing green space and branching out to form a new campus green network.