Name: KOHT Arkitekter
Disciplines: Architecture, urban and regional planning, urban development, urban spaces, large-scale architecture, and landscape architecture
Campus in the city centre
The background of the planning and design competition was the co-location of 400 study programmes in the period from 2016 to 2025, involving around 20,000 students on a new 130,000 m2 campus in the Elgeseter district of Trondheim. An important condition of the competition was to use public space to link together the existing campus at Gløshaugen, the new area along Klæbuveien, and the existing urban situation. NTNU Campus – The Road Ahead is the competition’s winning contribution.
Panel remarks
We think the contribution has successfully managed to create an area with a distinctive identity, or as one of the panel members put it: "This is good urban planning, pure and simple." In a way they are making a "new city within the city". They have designed the programme and formulated a plan: 130,000 square meters, 20,000 new students, and a solution that is contingent upon incorporating public space into the plan. It is also gratifying that, in spite of their young age, they have challenged the brief to propose a solution different to that requested, and for which they argue convincingly. It is impressive, mature, and professional and it is a great pleasure to congratulate KOHT Arkitekter with a well-deserved DOGA award.