Project details:
Client: University of Stellenbosch (Tygerberg Medical Campus)
Date completed: January 2013
Cost of construction: R26 million
Materials used: Innovative Building Technology (IBT) – Lightweight Steel and Versapanel
Number of student beds: 160
The University of Stellenbosch and STAG African worked together to address the student accommodation needs of the Tygerberg Medical Campus. We used a 21st Century approach to provide a cost- and time-effective solution.
Benefits:
- Lower cost
- Speed
- Quality
- Low combustibility
- Lower maintenance
- Lightweight
- Reduced carbon footprint
- Good sound insulation
- Excellent thermal characteristics
- Durable and ‘student-proof’
Architectual design criteria:
- Based on the ‘Listening, Learning, Living’ concept
- Places the student at the centre of the design process
- Creates a student community
- Eight-pod, single & double bed design
Innovative product:
- Lightweight Steel Structure
- German manufactured Versapanel cladding
Dramatic cost reduction through:
- Product innovation
- Optimal architectural design
Seven month construction timeline
- July 2012 – construction begins
- August 2012 – foundations dug
- September 2012 – first floor constructed
- October 2012 – second floor constructed
- November 2012 – third floor constructed
- December 2012 – final cladding applied
- January 2013 – project completion
Environmental considerations
- Building is re-usable
- Reduced construction waste
- Lower construction impact
- Energy Savings:
- Thermal Qualities
- Electrical Consumption:
- LED lights
- Solar energy or heat pumps
- Five-amp circuit breaker
- Time switch to shower
- Natural ventilation
Design
- Putting the student at the centre of the design process optimises student performance
- Students, by their nature, are pioneers
- Pioneering the solution to the South african student accommodation crisis
“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us”
– Winston Churchill
