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Science Park - Johannes Kepler University
Science Park - Johannes Kepler University
Linz, Austria
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Science Park - Johannes Kepler University
Linz, Austria
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2021
SIZE
500,000 sqft - 1,000,000 sqft
Sixteen years after the EU-wide general planning competition was announced, the science park at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, consisting of 5 components, was completed in April 2021.
With an area of around 80,000 square meters, the Science Park is one of the largest university buildings in this country of this century. Different uses, especially the young technical and digital study programs and the spin-offs that develop from them, but also economic science institutions, are located in the science park.
Urban development
The most recent building, known as component 5, is the head building of the urban composition and, together with the former Starhembergersche lap Auhof (now Rectorate) located on the opposite side of the street, forms a gate to the city of Linz. With the JKU, the urban development of the flat Linz basin ends here, the green hills of the Mühlviertel follow on, and the topography of the new buildings in the Science Park also use this transition in their spatial development. The alignment of the finger-like components allows the downdrafts, which are so important for the city, to flow through and at the same time creates different open areas in between.
Topography and connection to the existing campus
All sub-buildings were designed in such a way that, both in floor plan and in section, they respond to the neighbors and surroundings to the greatest extent through height differences and kinks. On the one hand, this meant that a rigid building structure was avoided and, on the other hand, it was possible to make the immense building masses appear less massive (the individual buildings are up to 140 meters long). The high special halls for research and the two-story entrance areas are also hidden by the green foothills of the hills due to the arrangement of large parts of the building masses on the slope and have been given a ground-level connection to the existing university area by lowering the terrain. The resulting “ground-level underpass” under the busy Altenbergerstrasse, which appears more like a car bridge than a pedestrian underpass, was also part of the commissioned construction tasks and was already implemented together with component 1.
Photographer: Hertha Hurnaus
With an area of around 80,000 square meters, the Science Park is one of the largest university buildings in this country of this century. Different uses, especially the young technical and digital study programs and the spin-offs that develop from them, but also economic science institutions, are located in the science park.
Urban development
The most recent building, known as component 5, is the head building of the urban composition and, together with the former Starhembergersche lap Auhof (now Rectorate) located on the opposite side of the street, forms a gate to the city of Linz. With the JKU, the urban development of the flat Linz basin ends here, the green hills of the Mühlviertel follow on, and the topography of the new buildings in the Science Park also use this transition in their spatial development. The alignment of the finger-like components allows the downdrafts, which are so important for the city, to flow through and at the same time creates different open areas in between.
Topography and connection to the existing campus
All sub-buildings were designed in such a way that, both in floor plan and in section, they respond to the neighbors and surroundings to the greatest extent through height differences and kinks. On the one hand, this meant that a rigid building structure was avoided and, on the other hand, it was possible to make the immense building masses appear less massive (the individual buildings are up to 140 meters long). The high special halls for research and the two-story entrance areas are also hidden by the green foothills of the hills due to the arrangement of large parts of the building masses on the slope and have been given a ground-level connection to the existing university area by lowering the terrain. The resulting “ground-level underpass” under the busy Altenbergerstrasse, which appears more like a car bridge than a pedestrian underpass, was also part of the commissioned construction tasks and was already implemented together with component 1.
Photographer: Hertha Hurnaus
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