NTU to build mini city on campus

[Jman888]

NTU to build mini city on campus

By Hoe Yeen Nie | Posted: 07 February 2011 1736 hrs

 

SINGAPORE: The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has unveiled an ambitious masterplan to transform its Yunnan Garden campus into a mini city in the next 15 years.

 

There is even a possibility of having a light rail system leading into the university.

 

The NTU's masterplan includes provisions for a possible light rail system, which it hopes could be up in 10 years.

 

Electric buses and electric bikes may also ply the campus roads. There will also be pedestrian walkways criss-crossing through a network of ponds and parks.

 

The heart of the campus will be a snaking structure -- called the Campus Centre -- which would feature cafes, shops, a pub and even a cinema, all located near academic and residential facilities.

 

By 2015, 5,000 more hostel units will also be built, creating enough space for all undergraduates to stay on campus if they wish.

 

Guida Moseley Brown Architects Harold Guida said: "We're suggesting that carparks can be removed and landscaping can be introduced.

 

"We're suggesting that certain kinds of rooms can be removed and changed very easily into residential accommodation, adding a new sense of life, activity, round-the-clock sense of purpose for these buildings, rather than turning them off at five o'clock (in the evening)".

 

NTU is home to about 33,000 students and 3,000 faculty and researchers, and the aim is to create more opportunities for them to interact, not just socially but also in the classroom.

 

Incoming president and provost Bertil Andersson said he hopes there would be more interaction in the university.

 

There will also be a bigger focus on inter-disciplinary collaboration, and the new Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, which will be up by 2014, is one such example.

 

Students will split their time between the new school at Novena and Yunnan Garden.

 

"They have to learn a little bit about management in the business school; they have to learn engineering, because my belief is that in the next 10 years, one of the most key areas for medicine is inter-disciplinarity between medicine and engineering," professor Andersson said.

 

And with a new CleanTech business park coming up nearby, NTU said it hopes it will create not just opportunities for industry collaboration, but also the critical mass for a new light rail system into the university.

 

-CNA/wk

 

i missed my uni day (20 years ago!) where the guild house usually have movie nite every friday in one of the lecture theatre, we pay a few dollar for 2 movies.....

 

it has a few taverns within the campus for after class happy hours..... more important, the less contact hour was like 9 hours/week for the students to fully enjoy the uni facilities and uni life

 

 

[Hao80]

Run through the news.

 

But I am unsure whether building restaurants, pubs and cinemas are a waste of money..

 

I feel that money should be better spend to equipped students with a better laboratory for research purposes. It comes as a shock to me when I enter NTU that SP laboratory facilities are better. Funds should be better used to improve university ranking.

[Karu]

NUS has been talking about mini city for ages... Has it come true??

[Jman888]

NUS has been talking about mini city for ages... Has it come true??

 

 

with all the ****polis nearby (with hotel and cinema, etc) it should be more or less there

[Alheych]

my friend who's from NTU himself says don't waste money. LRT and so many facilities let ah tiong abuse only.

[Karu]

with all the ****polis nearby (with hotel and cinema, etc) it should be more or less there

 

all the polis not connected to NUS leh?? Got cinema meh??

 

[Jman888]

all the polis not connected to NUS leh?? Got cinema meh??

 

 

akan datang...... it is a 15 years project