Regeneration of the University of Manitoba
Since its foundation in the 19th century, the Fort Gary campus has changed a lot, the clear axial structure has been transformed into a conglomerate of units of different sizes and shapes that have blurred the initial order. The harmony that existed between the natural environment, its buildings, agricultural fields, landscape and architecture has been eroded by this disorderly growth. The (re)generation project for the University of Manitoba campus in Winnipeg is an opportunity to recover these lost values and to propose an imaginative vision in which the campus and nature can once again coexist.
The project covers an area of almost 300 hectares and proposes a very broad set of interventions that resolve the different areas of the campus with specific and different strategies that are very ambitious over time. The fundamental issues concern the transformation of the campus into an essentially pedestrian area, equipped with a good public transport network and taking advantage of the huge areas of car parks that currently exist for other uses, making the campus denser.
The construction of some urban fragments with higher density and more complex and varied uses that establish the link between the campus and the city of Winnipeg and the complete overhaul of the cycles related to water, snow and waste management to treat the campus as a sustainable urban element.
