Announcement of a competition of ideas and drawings for students of the Faculty of Architecture in the Arab International University the role of social distancing in prevention within the campus

Initiative: Learning together



Basic concepts:

Study the impact of architectural and urban design on human behavior and its social needs:

Learning Together

- The concept of science and education is linked to the concept of the professor and the student and in an equipped hall called the classroom.

- Education is in fact any activity carried out by the human being based on the response or reaction to the motivations and events surrounding it, and learning means the demand for knowledge, skill and wisdom.

- In the classroom, which is the common process in education, there are available sources such as devices, laboratory tools, samples, bodies, figures, references, information bank and educational instructions on how to use these sources to facilitate and increase the educational experience.



- The possibility of education increases by increasing the number of people in the place, due to the diversity of people's experiences and their different understanding of the surrounding nature.

- When the designer arranges the classroom, lecture hall or educational laboratories, and uses all the resources available to him, it increases the educational experience.

- There are non-classroom educational places, learning may happen at any time and in any location and place where there is an event that surrounds humans. It may happen during work, on the street, and college corridors, just as it happens in equipped classrooms and in every location that has educational merits.

- On the University Campus there are corridors, elevators, lounges, stairs, and multiple educational and non-educational spaces where students interact, how can these attached spaces be an integral part of the place of education?

The campus is designed to encourage in-depth learning and classrooms are designed to develop classroom learning.

- The need to provide spaces for informal gatherings, where students tend (and innately) at all levels of study to position themselves in groups where they are stationed somewhere, and this behavior does not mean setting the limits of possession but simply identifying a known place where the individual can find friends. Most of the conversations and discussions between students are in the corridors or in the gardens dealing with lesson topics and educational activities. Perhaps these informal social centers are the open runway, under a tree, in the garden or even on the entrance stairway that can be addressed without causing congestion and students gathering to exchange.



Requirements:



Provide illustrations (design or organizational ideas) on campus, in the faculty of architecture and various colleges.



They should deal with the importance of social communication and how to address it within the term imposed social distancing, and its effect on the design of all spaces and all forms of gatherings within the campus and what the opportunities of friction are, and how to introduce the time factor, where students have the absolute freedom to distribute their time, especially in the post-return to university, within the following topics:

1. Treatment of internal and external grouping spaces

2. Internal and external traffic corridors and elements of vertical movement.

3. - Studios.

4. Classerooms

5. Recreational spaces and cafeterias

In order to encourage participation, the university administration will award, the first three designs:

1st Prize: 100,000 Syrian pounds

2nd prize: 75,000 Syrian pounds

3rd prize: 50,000 Syrian pounds



Sing-up via the link: Deadline 25-04-2020

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfloMCl-2GX6xuTKSmvFn6zjwgFOEN5BZeXbz5trFJpVHpnHQ/viewform?usp=sf_link



Handing-in to Dr. Lina Osman Deadline 25-05-2020

linaotman@gmail.com