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4.3 University of Vienna
Location: Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien, Austria
Location within the city: wider center
Area: 11 ha
Established in 2000
Score: 59%
Tab. 3: Evaluation sheet with all attributes and their point
evaluation, where 5 points is the best and 1 the worst.
Evaluation:
Source: Čibik and Štěpánková
(2020).
The best rated category was category D – aesthetics of the
environment. The worst rated were category B - dynamic and
static movement and category C - safety.
The university is located next to the main building on the
Ringstrasse, near Vienna City Hall, dispersed in 60 other
locations and the larger university complexes are nearby (Neues
Institutsgebäude, lecture rooms in Althansstrasse, Juridicum etc.)
The university also includes a botanical garden, an astronomical
observatory, a sports center and a number of research institutes,
some outside Vienna (Niederstätter, 2001).
A typical compact campus in a strictly urban environment within
the metropolis of Vienna. The Campus of the University of
Vienna is characterized by modern infrastructure in a historical
setting. It has its historical roots in the 18th century. There are
nine rooms of different size (99 m² – 442 m²), embedded in
buildings that are surrounded by the green spaces of 13
courtyards, that can be booked for events – no extra charge for
"Campus feeling". The Campus is close to the Main Building
and Vienna's historic center and easy to reach by public
transport. The campus is accessible and visually attractive, but
again there are no water elements and part of the services that
define the complexity of university campuses, and these are
elements of leisure and non-educational activities, such as sport
or cultural activities.
However, outside classroom hours, the University of Vienna
community has access to learning and social spaces, including a
library, computer and PhD labs, lounges and a cafe. The library
offers a wide range of services to support learning and research,
from electronic and print resources to computer workstations and
bookable collaboration rooms.
4.4 Vienna University of Economics and Business
Location: Welthandelspl. 1, 1020 Wien, Austria
Location within the city: far from the center
Area: 13 ha
Established in 2013
Score: 80%
Tab. 4: Evaluation sheet with all attributes and their point
evaluation, where 5 points is the best and 1 the worst.
Evaluation:
Source: Čibik and Štěpánková
(2020).
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (WU) is one of the largest schools
of its kind in Europe. It was founded in 1898 and twenty years
later renamed to Hochschule für Welthandel. It received its
current name in 1975. The school has changed location several
times during its existence and today's modern campus was
created only after the number of students from many countries –
including Slovakia – exceeded twenty thousand and it was
necessary to build a new academic background (Kalinová,
2014).
It was created near the Vienna Prater and the fairgrounds on the
basis of an urban plan from 2009. At the end of the summer
semester in the university town of WU Campus, students relax in
areas that resemble a skate park or sit in bars and cafés. Others
study inside large-scale classrooms in a modern library, the
largest of which has a capacity of 450 people. The university
campus has a non-compact surrounding area, behind the campus
buildings there are large gaps. The views seem rather
disharmonious in connection with the non-compactness of the
development. The space itself has many other functions in
addition to the main functions, in particular it offers spaces for
relaxation. The campus consists of a large pedestrian zone, rest
areas and 6 distinct modern buildings, which originated from an
international competition.
The best rated category was category B - dynamic and static
movement. The worst category was D - aesthetics of the
environment, which was mainly caused by the attribute related to
water and water elements, which are again absent in the
environment. However, there is a corporate campus nearby,
which, on the other hand, complements the university campus
with larger water bodies in the form of an artificial lake and
other forms of water. The corporate campus also has a lot of
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