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Singapore University of Technology and Design
New campus design

by Ben van Berkel / UNStudio's

Designed by UNStudio and DP Architects, the academic campus for the Singapore
University of Technology and Design (SUTD) reflects an in-depth understanding of
the changing requirements of learning institutions today.

he SUTD offers four key academic on infrastructural qualities, on connectivity
pillars: Architecture and Sustainable and the creation of an open, transparent and
TD e s i g n , E n g i n e e r i n g P r o d u c t light facility that responds to the requirements
Development, Engineering Systems and of the contemporary campus. In this way the
Design and Information Systems Technology architecture of the SUTD does not attempt
and Design. The SUTD is a driver of to overwhelm the students with a singular
technological innovation and economic vision, it instead enables them to develop
growth, with the new campus bringing their own architectural language."
together people, ideas and innovation. The new academic campus directly
Ben van Berkel: "The design consciously reflects SUTD's curriculum, using the
avoids over-articulation and instead focusses creative enterprise of the school to facilitate a

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