BGU University Building, Senate Center Beer-Sheva, Israeli Education Project
University Senate Center Beer-Sheva
Ben-Gurion Building: BGU Israel design by Chyutin Architects, Israel
26 Apr 2012
University Senate Center Beer-Sheva Building
Design: Chyutin Architects
University Senate Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva
photograph : Ardon Bar Hama
The Senate Center complex at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev serves as the university’s administrative center.
photographs : Ardon Bar Hama
It contains an office building, the Senate Hall, and an exhibition space. The office building, which faces the campus’s main entrance plaza, on the main lengthwise pedestrian axis, is shaped like a monolithic cube with sandstone cladding, and encloses a circular inner courtyard. The main entrance to the plaza and to the complex is designed like a cleft carved into the rock of a canyon.
photographs : Ardon Bar Hama
The courtyard is closed towards the desert, and constitutes an inner world that is protected against the winds and shaded from the sun. The use of an inner courtyard is a characteristic element of residential and public buildings in the Mediterranean and desert regions.
photographs : Ardon Bar Hama
The Senate Hall is shaped like an inclined cone, cladded with sandstone bricks, and stands apart, several meters in front of the main building, thus creating a tension between them.
photographs : Ardon Bar Hama
University Senate Center Ben-Gurion University – Building Information
Design Agency: Chyutin Architects
Designer: Bracha Chyutin, Michael Chyutin
Total Storeys: 4
Floor Area: 6000 sqm
Client: Ben-Gurion University
Country: Israel
Location: Beer Sheva
Photographs: Ardon Bar Hama
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