Skyscraper University of Shoreline

                                                  (S U S)



A University designed around a single architectural amalgamation of building elements, with some aspects a mere 30-50 stories and others well above 100 at the peak.

Seen from above it would look like a long irregular and thick line or scribble of a line diagonally running within a boxed surface between




Comprising aproximately 3,000,000 square feet of space per average floor with the median number being about 60 total: a grand total of about 180,000,000 square feet of space.
By comparison, the Seattle Campus of the University of Washington, which lays on some 643 acreas, represents 28 Million square feet, serving a student population of some 42,000 and 21,000 staff and faculty.

In its environs, SUS will include the full compliment of generous individual rooming residences, it's own research and development labs, multi-disciplinary factory-storehouse (for creating the imagined, and in sizeable numbers), and it's own shopping, commerce and industry center...with shops, offices, production houses, which are maintained and developed by a combination of faculty and students, so that what is taught in the classroom can demonstrate and test out the practical applications of it's participants theories and observations in an environment approximating what they will likely experience once they complete their studies..

The following space is allocated (approximate sqft), Per student attending:

500         walking (walkways/cooridoors)
250         nestle living unit
150         storage
300   study spaces (rooms, desks, bean bag chairs, mats, tables, etc.)
300   communal (social spaces / hangouts)
300   classrooms
200   labs

Their wil be variance in the offerings for the sake of attending to particular needs for more or less in each area of space use and whole areas of the university will be shaped accordingly so that those who are more mousy can have their holes to hide in, and those more clausterphobic can enjoy wide open and engaging spaces with plenty of light, air and greenery, as well as other people.

Just to cite one example, the communal space per person is listed as 300, so imagining a shared space in the center of a circle with the perimeter of the circle being lined with the entrances to 25 units would necessitate 7500 sqft of space, or a circle just short of 100 feet across.

At roughly 2,000 sqft per student, the universities capacity will be suited to a maximum of 60,000 Students, who will live and not just study in the building, creating more of a monastic feel to the experience than at most other university experiences.

40-50,000,000 sqft will be assigned to factory storehouse, R&D spaces, and shopping spaces, including special stores for food and other essential supplies, plus the administrative/offices of the staff and faculty....in addition to their own residencial spaces.

10-20 Million sqft is assumed to be the actual building.