The Campus Center will provide space for dining, bookstore, mail, bank/ATM, meeting rooms, lounges, student organizations, student activities, and other relevant administrative offices. Meeting rooms of various sizes will be scheduled for special University events and conferences. An art gallery will serve to enhance special events and campus life more generally. Lounges of various sizes will be distributed throughout to encourage socializing and offer alternative study spaces. The Campus Center will be an integral component of the academic environment.
There will be a variety of dining facilities indoors as well as outdoors. Also located in the Campus Center will be Career Planning and the offices for Residential Life.
The central indoor facility will be a multi-use court area for basketball, tennis, and volleyball that will also serve as a performance court or special events space. Other indoor sports will be swimming, judo, karate, and tai kwon do as well as squash. There will also be aerobics, exercise, and free weights studios. In addition, this facility will provide instruction rooms, training rooms, locker rooms, and other support space for both the indoor and outdoor activities.
Outdoor sports will include basketball, soccer, track, tennis courts, and volleyball. Some of these venues, such as tennis and volleyball, will be integrated into the residential environment.
Housing will be provided for all students in combinations of singles and doubles, organized around common living and study areas in groupings of 12 students per access and undergraduate housing module, and 5 students per graduate housing module. The modules are arranged in a configuration that responds to the specific landscape and topographic features of the site. The basic module for student housing is a four-story building containing the bedrooms which flank a stepped core of exterior terraces, interior living rooms, and vertical circulation.
Building design should allow for additional housing, with adequate support space, that can be built in incremental units. The campus plan must also reflect this requirement. A total of 2,750 students will be housed in the halls of residence.
In addition to dining facilities in the Campus Center, there will be two dining areas related to student residences – each consisting of seating for 400 indoors and 100 outdoors. There will also be dedicated space for faculty dining.
Residences and dining facilities, as with all AUW campus buildings and landscape features, will be designed for universal accessibility, with appropriate accommodations for differently abled students, faculty and staff.
AUW will commission local artists from students’ countries of origin to create original works of art, calligraphy, textiles and sculpture to be installed throughout the campus buildings and grounds.
