Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden: Campus Park

The landscape situation at LTH campus is a large, green field; sloping gently to the east. The architect was Klas Anselm. He laid out what is today a dozen buildings in the terrain; simplistic, red brick volumes, sprinkled over the slope in quite solitary positions. The school authorities believed in a rapid growth, and the plan was that the singular buildings would physically expand and end up standing closer to each other than they originally were. The school did grow, but not to the extent that the units came into a meaningful dialogue. The result is a rather handsome but barren campus. The lack of a density that can supply with a rich social life is obvious.The project is about how to create a remedy for these shortcomings.