2008 SCUP/AIA-CAE Award Recipients
SCUP/AIA-CAE Excellence in Planning for a New Campus, Honor Award
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Master Plan at the
Aga Khan University with Payette
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The Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) and the American Institute of Architects Committee on Architecture for Education (AIA-CAE) announced the 2008 Campus Planning and Design Awards. Jurors reviewed over 200 submissions and cited 19 projects. Payette received two of the 12 Honor Awards.
The Aga Khan University Faculty of Arts and Sciences Master Plan earned an Honor Award for Excellence in Planning for a New Campus.
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The Aga Khan University Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The Aga Khan University Faculty of Arts and Sciences Master Plan establishes a framework for a new campus on arid scrubland 30 kilometers outside Karachi, Pakistan, in a zone designated as Education City by the Sindh provincial government. Designed for an initial student body of 1,600, this campus is planned to support 10,000 students and the full spectrum of graduate degrees and professional schools. The campus morphology is based on historic Islamic city form and establishes a continuum of experience, from the courtyard to the veranda to the building interior. Adjacent land holdings of 500 acres will also be developed as a University village. Source
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KARACHI: The Aga Khan University has won an international award for the master plan of its new Faculty of Arts and Sciences campus to be built in Education City, 30 km outside Karachi.
An announcement on Monday said that the Society for College and University Planning and the American Institute of Architecture presented the Honor award for excellence in planning for a new campus to AKU and its architects Payette Associates, at their annual conference in Montreal, Canada, last week.
The university’s new Faculty of Arts and Sciences campus will be a major component of Education City, a regional development of schools and institutes that will eventually cover 8,000 acres.
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