posted on 2010-03-24, 16:34authored byJames Pinder, Jennifer Parker, Simon Austin, Fiona Duggan, Mark Lansdale, Peter DemianPeter Demian, Thom Baguley, Simon Allenby
Executive summary: This report draws upon the combined efforts of
a number of estates professionals, architects,
academics, designers, and senior managers
involved in the planning of new university buildings
for the 21st century. Across these perspectives,
all would agree – although perhaps for different
reasons - that this planning is difficult and that a
number of particular considerations apply in the
design of academic workspaces. Despite these
difficulties, they will also agree that when this
planning goes well, ‘good’ buildings are truly
transformational – for both the university as a
whole and the people who work and study in them.
The value of well-designed buildings goes far
beyond their material costs, and endures long after
those costs have been forgotten ...
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PINDER, J. ... et al, 2009. The case for new academic workspace. Loughborough : Loughborough University.