The Indoor University

Brief: AA Diploma 14 09/10 – Making the City: The Immeuble Cité

Tutors: Pier Vittorio Aureli, Barbara Campell-Lange, Fenella Collingridge

The Indoor University from Fabrizio Matillana on Vimeo.

Humboldt did not think that a university was either a machine for producing professional persons or for tuning out scientific knowledge. He thought that fundamental to both of these was the cultivation of the ideal of the pursuit of truth and the ordering of life around that pursuit. This project represents this condition literally, the ordering of this pursuit and living within this pursuit, and in this newfound literalness purges the institution from its state of conflict and compromise by means of material, circulatory and living immersion.

The Indoor University                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The Indeterminate Indoor

      1 : 100 Ground Floor Plan                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Axonometric Ground Floor

      1 : 100 Roof Plan                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Axonometric Roof
      Field Interior                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Field Exterior
      1 : 25 Room Section                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               The Room
      1 : 25 Library Section                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           The Library
      1 : 25 Forum Section                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The Forum
      1 : 2000 Site Section                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   1 : 2000 Site Plan
      1 : 1000 Ground Floor Plan                                                                                                                                                                                                        1 : 1000 Reflected Ceiling Plan
      Scholarship as Immersion                                                                                                                                                                                                              The Gymnasium of Thought