The Danish company designs the $ 560 million from UBC, a student apartment of 1,500 beds,

The University of British Columbia (UBC) has entered a prominent international architecture company of Denmark to head for design work for its largest project for student dormitories in decades.

The first phase of the renovation of St. John's College on the UBC Vancouver campus was designed by 3xn in Copenhagen, the remarkable projects such as the Museum of Liverpool, the new International Olympic Committee headquarters in Laulsan, Quay Quarter Tower in Sydney, as well as the National City and the National Aquarium in Sydney in Sydney Aquarium Denmark designed in Copendia.

The Ryder Architecture, based in Vancouver, acts as a local architect architect for the project, whereby the landscape architecture design of HAPA is being managed in Vancouver.

The government of British Columbia confirmed its support in August 2024 in the first phase of the new Student Residence of the Lower Mall and provided 300 million US dollars for the total cost of 560 million US dollars, with the university covering the remaining balance.

The St. John's College was built at the end of the nineties and is located in the 2111 Lower Mall-a 6.2 hectare property, which is framed by the Northwest Marine Drive to the West, the University Boulevard in the north, in the Lower Mall and in the existing Ponderosa Commons in the east and south of the existing marine.

And now newly released architectural renderings and project details show that the existing buildings and terrain of low-building St. John's College are replaced by six new structures, including an eight-story prototype of eight-story Lightwood frames and mass-timber-hybrid building, a nine-bottom building, a 13-storey building and a building and a 22-a business concrete button.

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In total, these buildings contain 1,513 beds of the student dormitories in a mixture of unit types, including studio, studio with kitchen, quad and two-bedroom units. These beds are primarily devoted to the students of the graduates, whereby 175 beds are shown as one-to-one replacement for St. John's College.

The highest building of the 22-story tower is in the eastern half of the development location, which is closest to the Lower Mall. The three buildings in the eastern half of the site share a large-scale base podium with up to two floors with a 10,500 square meter dining room with 250 seats on the floor as well as a fitness fitness studio, multi-purpose rooms, event rooms and other amenities in the second and second and the basement level.

The 22-story tower in buildings 2 will also offer the spectacular student amenmentality of 1,100 m² in the interior “Sky Lounge” on the upper floor, which offers a spectacular panoramic view of the street of Georgia and Vancouver Island.

Some buildings have mixed use within the floor level, including about 3,100 m² of office space in the floor of buildings 3 and 5,000 m² childcare facility for 37 children in the floor of building 4 along the southern edge of the location.

All six buildings are aligned on a large scenic courtyard and offer students the residents of students sufficiently outdoors, including the shady freight area “Hain” with paths and seating and the open grass area “Glade”.

The heart of the inner courtyard and the overall project is the preservation and reuse of the Heritage Campus Fire Hall.

In November 2024, the fire hall structure built in 1926 was carefully removed from 1926 in separate movable sections and laid by its 98-year location next to the Leonard S. Klinck building in the West Mall.

The separate structural sections were lifted from the foundation and transported to a temporary location, where they later shrink to the location of the lower shopping centers because of their constant move.

The fire station was opened and opened just one year after the first academic and administrative buildings on campus in 1925, which was an important part of the history of UBC.

Since 1982, after modern Fire Hall facilities have been opened, the departments for art history and visual art and theory have been used as an office and studio room. It was painted red in the nineties, partly to be reminded of their existence and being saved before the demolition. The fire station was relocated to make room for the current construction project to expand the Sauder School of Business.

In its future permanent home in the new student residence in the Lower Mall, the fire brigade will be converted into a one -step, 1.900 m² interior with a multi -purpose room, a lounge with seats and a dining room with a kitchen.

At the westernmost end of the development location next to the Northwest Marine Drive, existing mature trees are retained to restore this area “forest”. Along the university boulevard and the lower shopping centers there will be a plaza, a landscape design and paths that offer open access to the courtyard and the fire hall.

“The vision for the UBC Lower Mall Phase 1 is to create a new shared apartment that strengthens the connections on the entire campus and at the same time celebrates its unique location conditions – in the city and forests. The draft identifies six key ambitions: To complete pedestrian control, define the pedestrian fighting of the university boules that build on the student community and build the social and Physical sites to build on the way.

“By dividing and moving the inner courtyard, we create two different, but interconnected rooms: a public square that activates the university boulevard and a forest farm that opens up to the forest edge along the South Street. This simple movement structures the entire project -bridging city and nature, compliance and the shape in which the regular reductions and deductions and deductions The edge of the edge and the finishes, the social hearing and the edge, the social height and the edge, the social height and the edge, the social height and the soil, the bodies and the floor and the floor, the architecture fits into the landscape design and the surrounding area.

The architectural design of the buildings has followed in the last 25 years after the established approach of UBC in the past 25 years of use of relatively simple, standardized forms and motifs for campus buildings, including the student residences. However, this project leads to a modest increase in visual diversity through the use of different outer colors, materials and textures in the buildings.

All buildings create a combined total area of ​​over 637,000 m².

The project is expected to enable the final approval of the approval in November 2025, so that the first construction work can begin in January 2026.

Building 4, building 5 and building 6 in the western half of the site, including the prototype mass-timber building and the conversion hall, will be ready by autumn 2028. Building 1, building 2, and building 3 within the eastern half of the development location, including the 22-story tower and the Esshalle, will be completed in autumn 2029 in autumn 2029.

Unsigned future phases of the lower shopping center could add additional beds in the first year, up the upper year and in the doctoral student.

The UBC Vancouver campus currently offers around 14,100 bed beds for students, including the completion of the second and last phase of the Brock Commons Residence in the summer of 2024, which provided 280 beds.

According to the university, the waiting list for student apartments in UBC Vancouver, despite its most important investments in building new additional student residences on the campus from 3,200 to over 8,000 students over the past 15 years in the summer summit.

In 2023, the university announced that Daily Hive, it intended to build 4,800 new residence beds with an estimated cost of 1.4 billion US dollars in the next 10 to 15 years, including 4,300 on the Vancouver campus and 500 on Okanagan campus. This includes the new student residence Lower Mall and the future main adjustment of the aging structures of the village of Vanier Residenz with a new replacement and expanded housing capacity of the students.