When the inside turns out.

So my final concept was the machination of various faculties and buildings on campus into a single building that is turned inside out.

The typical university campus consists of many buildings with their own functions and meanings, connected only by the strings of a society attempting to educate it's populous. Other than that the university attempts to create an on-campus environment by running events, allowing student run societies to advertise their own hopeful, yet somewhat detached, idea of a community. In all honesty I like societies and the community they generate but they really do segregate the university community as a whole. You have business students running off on their own commercial tangents, while the law students attempt to draw the circle of law which the former party's tangent diverges from. You then have the beer chugging engineering students who are ironically meant to make stuff work (they're still good blokes), and then the minorities of science, architecture and arts attempting to make their own way along side the titans of the aforementioned faculties, all the while leaving the med students to exist only in their exclusive cliques learning about how terribly fragile the human design is, with, I'll admit as depressing as they are, incredibly necessary aims to keep the rest of us from kicking the bucket too early because we've run head on into eachother. However, the point is that the university community is growing larger, and as it does this it separates the community on the whole. Therefore my proposed building theory is to recreate certain sections of the campus on the interior space of a dome in order to hold them together in a space, rather than allowing them to spread outwards.

Rough drawing of concept

The idea is to bring all the faculties into a single enclosed space, which as architecturally constraing as it is, still has it's upsides. The community has had it's "insides turned out", which resultantly has broughts the exteriors of the buildings "in". The dome on the exterior of this concept is metaphorical for the unstable nature of our lives at university. It is a stage of our lives where we are slightly in limbo. We have direction, but it can easily be altered, as we have course options, degree options, jobs options. So many options that are defining, which make unstable, not in the sense that it could fall apart(hopefully), but because the possibilities are many.

The building being on the interior is simply to bring the faculties, as mentioned before, together and closer into a more close-knit community.

Synths

The buildings chosen thus far are based on aesthetic and ease of synthing value, not for any other reason. Of course if it was possible there would be a balanced choice of the varying faculties to represent the various different communities within the university. Alongside other buildings such as social, banking, health and fitness, and eating facilities.

Chemical Sciences Building 68% Synthy(bad synthing - the ground was synthed as a result of more vibrant outer environment)