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Main facade
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lobby
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Building in its urban context
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detail facade corner
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Main auditorium
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Relation lobby towards the street
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Plan groundfloor lobby
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Section though main auditorium
UFO University Hall
Stéphane Beel Architects, Xaveer De Geyter Architects. Ghent, Belgium
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Name of work in English
UFO University Hall
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Name of work in original language
Universiteitsforum (UFO)
Prize year
EUmies Awards 2011
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Work Location
Ghent, Belgium
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Studio
Stéphane Beel Architects, Xaveer De Geyter Architects
EUmies Awards 2011 Shortlisted
The central university campus site stretches over 800 metres along the Schelde River on its lower side and along a higher sloping street on the other side.
Collaborators
Structural engineering: SWK-Arcadis; Engineering: Ingenium; Building physics: Daidalos-Peutz; Others: Cenergie; Landscape architect: Michel Desvigne Paysagistes; Architect: Jo Taillieu, Joris Van Huychem, Isabelle Blancke, Inge Buysse, David D Hooge, Frederik Dutry, Bram Seghers, Michael Smith, Lieve Vandeginste, Sappho Van Laer, David Van Severen
Program
Education
Completion
2009
Since several new programmes were to be added to the campus, a new coherence was introduced by retracing a historical path as a semipublic connection. One of the new buildings is the multipurpose university hall, which functions as a studentoriented building that serves as the main gathering area for the university housing offices; laboratories; auditorium and foyer, congress facilities and a car park for 100 vehicles. Vertically the building consists of three parts: a semisunken volume, a transparent foyer level and a top volume with three programmatic parts. The auditorium, sinks down to the foyer level and underneath, a large stairway leads to a lower garden behind the building, providing a view towards the river from the main street and across the foyer.
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