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Architectural Award for AKU's New Campus
 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 kms outside Karachi. The Society for College and University Planning and the American Institute of Architecture presented the Honour 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 will be a major component of Education City, a regional development of schools and institutes that will eventually cover 8,000 acres. The master plan is simultaneously about architecture, city planning, campus planning and academic programming. The goal is more than a campus in the desert. A seed is being planted to simultaneously grow a university and a town, a commitment to making places for people that is cosmopolitan, yet firmly rooted in the culture of Islam and South Asia.
T he architectural plan is responsive to social, cultural, economic as well as environmental issues. The following strategies will be adopted:
- Passive systems such as solar shading and an exterior veranda access system
- Storm water management
- On-site treatment of sewage effluent for re-use in all toilet flushing
- Calibration of water demand for fountains, pools, and irrigation based on available re-use water
- Solar domestic hot water
- Wind energy resource
- Natural ventilation.
The new campus will establish a benchmark for responsible development in the region.
The SCUP, established in 1965, is a collegial community dedicated to sharing, learning, and teaching best practices in planning for colleges and universities. As the leader in the field of planning for higher education, SCUP offers an awards programme to recogni s e the accomplishments of those who advance the causes of higher education through excellent planning and design.
Aga Khan University is Pakistan's first private university chartered in 1983. Its Stadium Road campus which houses the Faculty of Health Sciences and the University Hospital has already received appreciation for its design and landscaping, which explores the architectural diversity of the Islamic world.
For further information, please contact:
Department of Public Affairs
Aga Khan University, Stadium Road, P.O. Box 3500, Karachi-74000.
Fax: 493 - 4294, 493 - 2095
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