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Digital TWIN WORLD
A major IT company is developing its new Headquarters Campus on the site of a former military hospital, located at the threshold between the city and the protected landscape of Kamzík mountain. The campus will accommodate more than 1,000 employees and integrate housing, commercial spaces, venues for events, and sports facilities. It is envisioned as a prototype for architecture and urbanism in the post-covid era.
What if the campus were not simply a private headquarters or a public city space – but both?
What if it were neither pure nature nor urban fabric – but both?
What if it combined working from home and office life?
What if it existed simultaneously as a physical place and a virtual environment?
The studio assignment is to design a campus that follows a predefined functional program, with a twist: the program is divided equally between the tangible and the virtual. One half is a real, buildable project that addresses the challenges of the site and its urban and natural context. The other half is a virtual extension – a digital twin world – where architecture can be explored free from gravity, economic limitations, or material constraints, focusing solely on functionality and experience.
The outcome is an augmented form of architecture, where the physical campus merges with its digital twin. Instead of separating these two domains, the project fuses them into a single environment where everyday life and digital interactions unfold side by side. As a further benefit, the reduced physical program lowers the ecological footprint, encourages adaptive reuse of historic structures, and strengthens the connection to the surrounding nature.
Ana Almeida
4th year
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Matúš Mihalčin
4th year
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Ulrike Simon
4th year
Oleksandra Ivasenko
4th year
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Lea Staderoli
4th year
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