Zayed University

This university bears enormous cultural and political significance for the entire region. It’s even the first facility of its kind for both male and female students on one and the same grounds, albeit tentatively not fundamentally in the same rooms. The structure, an initial project by the Central District, embodies an emergence on the part of the United Arab Emirates that transcends borders and has attracted a great deal of international attention. Elite scholastic institutions such as the Sorbonne in Paris and New York University are accompanying this initiative at separate locations. As an enhancement to the hotels and international museums devoted to tourism, Zayed University embodies an educational offensive to provide for generations to come. A project for the future with the staying power to last. Yet it also deals with the development potential of this society, with new ideas and new products, and ultimately with the country’s status following the transition in policy regarding energy. Education plays a key role in the universal economic and social development of the United Arab Emirates. Which is why the U.A.E. have defined methods and strategies for the future evolution of the education-related infrastructure.

The flowing natural shapes of the overall campus structure become softly bordered, open and inspiring areas indoors. The fluid, surprising environment represented by the functional rooms, an ambience to be explored again and again, serves as a contrast to articulate the distinctly defined focal points of scholastic work. This contrast illustrates the responsibility that academic science has towards nature, as well as the resulting necessity for concerted thought and action.

Within the array of scholastic focal points, the library – source and fundamental prerequisite for all scientific work – with its distinctive geometry designed radially in the form of an amphitheatre, defines the centre of the interaction between a given natural phenomenon and the construal of it.