Campus og studiemiljø - Bygningsstyrelsen

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kommerciel café om dagen - non profit
studiebar om aftenen. vnduerne vender ud
mod bevægelsesstrøget. / Commercial café
during the daytime and a non-profit student
bar in the evening. the windows face the
main thoroughfare.
opholdszone centralt placeret på et af de
faglige institutter. / lounge area centrally
located at one of the academic institutes.
Bygningerne har fælles arkitektonisk udtryk.
/ the buildings have a uniform architectural
expression.
alexander square / alexander square
‘Alexander Square’ is the central square on
campus from which the streets lead to the
rest of the campus and other smaller squares.
The square is a kind of ‘Town hall square’
with an underground terminal for the bus to
Lancaster city as well as key functions such
as a library, the university administration, a
bookshop and a baker’s. Alexander Square
is flanked by buildings on all sides and is
both sunny and sheltered. One side of the
square is elevated with steps to sit on, which
creates an intimate and relaxed atmosphere.
Students gather here for meetings or for no
apparent reason and people constantly cross
the square on their way from one end of
campus to the other.
social and academic life
More than half of the students live at one
of the nine colleges on campus. To meet the
needs of the 6,000 students who live here,
the university offers a wide range of urban
facilities on campus and almost all are located
in the main thoroughfare: cinema,
second-hand shop, bookshop, newsagent,
baker’s, coffee shops, eating places, church,
bank, florist, theatre, dentist, doctor, pharmacy,
post office, etc. Some eating places
are managed by the university but most are
private enterprises that lease the premises
from the university. Leasing is handled by
the university, which thus has an opportu-
Campus Case: lanCaster university
nity to generate income from the presence of
the retailers.
The university generally uses the premises
around the clock by e.g. having a café
that is operated commercially during the
daytime while students are allowed to run a
non-profit café in the evening.
With its focus on holistic campus planning,
Lancaster has gone to great lengths also to
meet the non-academic requirements. Informal
meeting places have high priority – also
in buildings mainly used for teaching and
research. The InfoLab 21, for instance, a new
research centre, contains incubator environments,
research facilities as well as an attractive
café with a roof terrace and a view that
attract visitors who do not otherwise use the
building.
Future strategy
Since 2007, Lancaster University has worked
according to a new 10-year master plan,
which, contrary to the previous plan, tries
to keep the campus within the original construction
area. The new strategy therefore
emphasises the central thoroughfare created
in the original plan from 1966, shifting the
focus away from the outer areas and back
to the centre of the campus. The aim of the
new plan is to upgrade the public space
and reintroduce green corridors with views
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