How can a university thoughtfully expand and integrate into the urban fabric?

Universidad Libre in Bogotá, Colombia—one of the country’s oldest private universities—tasked CAZA with tripling its architectural footprint and weaving its sprawling urban campus into the dense fabric of downtown.

CAZA’s master plan strategically incorporates pockets of green space throughout the campus by organizing the new buildings along an X-shaped axis of grass and trees. Along this axis, we sited a variety of new facilities, including laboratories and administrative buildings, while clustering key existing structures—such as the 14,250-square-meter sports stadium, laboratories, sports club, and classroom buildings—around them.