Westlake University
An aerial precedent for large-scale institutional campus design by HENN, utilizing a radial master plan with a central gathering green and branching academic wings.
- What we like about this project
- A singular slender tower punctuates the landscape edge while the rest of the campus maintains a low-slung, highly horizontal profile.
Materials
- concrete
- glass
- aluminum
- paving
Visual identifiers
- radial-campus
- central-rotunda
- radiating-wings
- perimeter-ring
Style tags
- contemporary
- monumental
- institutional
- master-plan
Visual tags
- master-plan
- campus
- radial-geometry
- institutional
- aerial-view
- Geometry
- Radial campus plan featuring a central circular lawn and pavilion, from which linear academic and administrative wings radiate outward like spokes, connected by a curved semi-circular perimeter ring.
- Facade system
- Precast or panelized concrete curtain wall system with horizontal window bands.
- Structural guess
- Steel and reinforced concrete framed structures with slab floors.
- Spatial scale
- Vast macro scale; multi-story campus buildings and a massive central green spanning several city blocks.
- Lighting
- Early morning oblique sunlight casting long shadows across the landscape and campus roofs, with atmospheric haze in the distance.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, ordered, and academic, unified by expansive green lawns and precise geometric planning.
- Environmental context
- Expansive suburban or greenfield setting surrounded by waterways, parklands, and emerging residential and commercial high-rise districts.
- Spatial experience
- A monumental, campus-scale layout that balances centralized communal gathering with clear, ordered departmental separation along radiating spokes.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical radial geometry with repeating linear building modules extending outward from a central pivot point.
- Style reading
- Contemporary monumental institutional architecture
- Program
- University campus and research facility
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- concrete, glass, aluminum, paving
- Visual identifiers
- radial-campus, central-rotunda, radiating-wings, perimeter-ring
- Style tags
- contemporary, monumental, institutional, master-plan
- Visual tags
- master-plan, campus, radial-geometry, institutional, aerial-view
- Geometry
- Radial campus plan featuring a central circular lawn and pavilion, from which linear academic and administrative wings radiate outward like spokes, connected by a curved semi-circular perimeter ring.
- Facade system
- Precast or panelized concrete curtain wall system with horizontal window bands.
- Structural guess
- Steel and reinforced concrete framed structures with slab floors.
- Spatial scale
- Vast macro scale; multi-story campus buildings and a massive central green spanning several city blocks.
- Lighting
- Early morning oblique sunlight casting long shadows across the landscape and campus roofs, with atmospheric haze in the distance.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, ordered, and academic, unified by expansive green lawns and precise geometric planning.
- Environmental context
- Expansive suburban or greenfield setting surrounded by waterways, parklands, and emerging residential and commercial high-rise districts.
- Spatial experience
- A monumental, campus-scale layout that balances centralized communal gathering with clear, ordered departmental separation along radiating spokes.
- Composition rhythm
- Symmetrical radial geometry with repeating linear building modules extending outward from a central pivot point.
- Style reading
- Contemporary monumental institutional architecture
- Program
- University campus and research facility
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture