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Carve & Construct
PrizeWinner in Architectural Design / Educational Buildings
University/SchoolUniversity of Virginia
Lead ArchitectMert Kansu
ClientUniversity of Virginia
Aiming to find the balance between the needs and the wants, affordable and the niche, stereotomic and the tectonic*, the west addition for the Campbell Hall provides a phased, attainable scheme while acknowledging the changing definitions of architectural education. This exploration resolves itself in a hybrid: a building both a factory and a school. The scheme defines a central open space for the school and a new face, acknowledging its context and defining its presence at an institution in its bicentennial. *Semper, G. (1851). The Four Elements of Architecture and Other Writings.