HOK was selected to design Kuwait University’s new College of Architecture and College of Computing Sciences and Engineering buildings at the Sabah Al-Salem University City campus at Shadadiyah. Totaling 477,000 square feet, these buildings will complete the initial build-out of the 64.6-million-sq.-ft. Sabah Al-Salem Kuwait University City campus, which was decreed in 2004 and is southwest of Kuwait City. Located on opposite ends of the site, the buildings will form new gateways at the western and eastern ends of the academic campus.
The College of Architecture was first established by Amiri decree in 2010 and currently operates from two campuses, Architectural Engineering at Khaldiya and Visual Communications & Interiors at Adailiyah. The move to the Sabah Al-Salem Campus at Shadadiyah will open a new chapter in the life of the College. Most importantly it will be a College created specifically for students of design, providing opportunities for a fully integrated environment with a rich variety of learning and social spaces to be shared by all in a truly collaborative manner.
HOK’s design solutions establish the identity of COAR across the University, respond to the flow of students and faculty from across the site and are inviting to business and the professions in Kuwait. The buildings will be permeable and engaging, creating a venue for the celebration of design as an academic pursuit. A joint centre, ‘The Collabatory’, will provide a place where students, academics and the professions come together.
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