EDUCATION
Kerry McNamara Architects recently completed the new Department of
Architecture and Spatial Planning at the University of Science & Technology in
Namibia.
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his four storey building is designed for the education of students of
architecture and spatial planning. The design principles of Kerry McNamara
Architects revolve around the idea of educational, human and social spaces,
creating various levels of public and private teaching, learning and social
interactive spaces internally and externally.
At an urban design scale, the form and orientation of the building purposefully
responds to the environment, to the greater campus as a whole and to the
existing campus Pedestrian Street and human student user. It does this by
the buildings being orientated to predominantly face North and South in
accordance with the new sustainability regulations controlling solar gain through correct
orientation. The entrances and front façades of the building relate to the existing pedestrian
street by providing a human scaled interactive ground level edge through recesses and
structural colonnade’s that enable the pedestrian to interact with the building and be