Student City
The competition for a Master Plan and rehabilitation of “City of Students” comes as a need to improve the physical and functional conditions of the unit “University Student Residences No. 1”, as well as to determine its borders and connections to informal settlements on the outskirts of the “City of Students”. This state residential campus is a national treasure and an asset that serves the majority of students studying in universities and higher education in Tirana. Its physical conditions today, do not allow a variety of forms of accommodation, as well as possible management models that could transform it in a self-financing asset. Today it presents a‘burden’ to the state budget and so it also needs to be re-conceptualized from a financial logic perspective. But the re-conceptualization of new management models is closely linked to the spatial and architectural re-conception of the “City of Students”. At the end of this initiated process,we believe that the “City of Students” will be transformed into a very attractive students’ destination, which will serve to more students and will be a model that can be self-financed.
The competition for a Master Plan and rehabilitation of “City of Students” comes as a need to improve the physical and functional conditions of the unit “University Student Residences No. 1”, as well as to determine its borders and connections to informal settlements on the outskirts of the “City of Students”. This state residential campus is a national treasure and an asset that serves the majority of students studying in universities and higher education in Tirana. Its physical conditions today, do not allow a variety of forms of accommodation, as well as possible management models that could transform it in a self-financing asset. Today it presents a‘burden’ to the state budget and so it also needs to be re-conceptualized from a financial logic perspective. But the re-conceptualization of new management models is closely linked to the spatial and architectural re-conception of the “City of Students”. At the end of this initiated process,we believe that the “City of Students” will be transformed into a very attractive students’ destination, which will serve to more students and will be a model that can be self-financed.
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MASTER PLAN “CAMPUS”<br />
Anila shehu<br />
Anila Shehu, was born in Tirana, in 1975. She<br />
graduated at the Faculty of Philology and History,<br />
got a master in the Faculty of Economics, Public<br />
Administration. During the years 2000-2011<br />
she worked in several management positions<br />
in Tirana municipality. Since October 2013, she<br />
holds the position of the general director of Nr1<br />
university student residence, <strong>Student</strong> Town.<br />
Simon battisti<br />
Simon Battisti (1983 USA) is an architect and<br />
educator based in Tirana, Albania. He is a 2014–<br />
2015 Fulbright Fellow in Albania, and is a visiting<br />
instructor at Epoka University’s Department of<br />
Architecture. He holds a Master of Architecture<br />
from the Harvard University Graduate School<br />
of Design, where he cofounded the Harvard<br />
GSD’s student journal Very Vary Veri. He writes<br />
regularly about architecture and urbanism, and is<br />
editor of Flexible Leviathan: Reconsidering Scale<br />
and Fixity in Iztapalapa, Mexico <strong>City</strong> (Harvard<br />
GSD, 2015). He has worked in design offices<br />
in Los Angeles, Mumbai, and New York <strong>City</strong>. In<br />
Albania he is researching alternative procedures<br />
of construction finance.<br />
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