Faculty News: Charles University will have the long expected campus at Albertov
Charles University has announced an architectural contest for the building of two new research sites at Albertov, Prague. It’s the University’s largest building project in the center of Prague in the last hundred years. The project will involve new state-of-the-art research sites, top notch laboratories and classrooms, and also refectories and venues for social events, all located in the area where currently thousands of students and academic staff members study, work, and live. The name of the project is Campus Albertov, to become an important center of scientific and medicinal research at Charles University. The campus should open in the start of 2022. The jury of the contest will feature, among others, important Czech architects Josef Pleskot and Ladislav Lábus.
Charles Univesity rector prof. Tomáš Zima announces the beginning of the architectural contest. Photo by Charles University.
New research sites, Biocentrum and Globcentrum, will open in the Albertov area in Prague 2 within a couple of years, to become centers of undergraduate and doctoral studies. The university will also try to recruit top international experts for these sites. New Campus Albertov will continue to be used by the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, First Faculty of Medicine, and Faculty of Science. „The project is a major challenge for further planning and development of Charles University. It’s a unique hub of research and educational activities of several faculties close to the city center,” says the Rector of Charles University, Prof. MUDr. Tomáš Zima, DrSc.
The research of Biocentrum will focus on live systems for the human health purposes, new biotechnologies, and biodiversity protection. The area will feature numerous types of laboratories (chemical, biochemical, molecular biological, physical etc.), as well as facilities for the installation of special technology (such as optical and electron microscopes, mass spectrometers, etc.), studies, lecture halls, and also “non-research” areas such as student rooms, exhibition areas, café, student club etc.
The Globcentrum research will focus on the aspects of global changes, such as the dynamics of global climatic changes, changes in the distribution of organisms, global dynamics of biodiversity and distribution of species, dynamics of the vegetation in old and new landscape, risks and hazards to nature, changes in the use of areas and impacts of these processes on the community. This building will also feature laboratories, studies, a refectory, and lecture halls.
Both centers should employ approximately 1,200 staff members. The lecture halls in both facilities will be able to take almost 900 people, and will be used extensively for the education of undergraduate students of the involved faculties, and for additional educational or conference activities. One of the main project objectives is the participation of top international researchers in the cooperating teams.
The architectural contest was called in the early September 2015. The Campus should open in the start of 2022. The estimated price is approximately 2.5 billion Czk; the project will be funded by the national budget of the Czech Republic.
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Sep 04, 2015 02:50 PM
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