Especially building a new hall seems to be a creative idea that will limit the number of moves according to real estate director Marien Florijn. However, this part of the campus will shortly become one large building site that will remain there for a number of years. The Master Plan as developed by architect Jan Hoogstad will not undergo any structural changes.
The Noordwesttangent û the branch of the Hengelosestraat planned by the council to run over or on the edge of the campus û has not been included in the UT-plans. æWe have not been officially informed of thisÆ, according to Florijn. Rector Frans van Vught: æIn the steering committee charged with real esate plans in the municipality the UT has let it be known that it has been unpleasantly surprised.Æ
Point of departure for the executive board is that the burnt parts of the A-and D-wings of the TWRC will not be rebuilt. This site where demolition has been taking place since December, will in all probability be converted to a parking area. This will certainly be needed, according to Van Vught, especially because of the projected densening to Education&Research centre of the area between the buildings WB, Hall D (as an extension to the Computer Science building) and CT. The intended connection between these buildings should benefit the interaction between students, teachers and researchers.
First step in the concept plans is the renovation of the remaining wings of the TWRC-building, to be called the TW-building for the time being. Florijn expects that the renovation will take a year. The faculty of Behavioural Sciences, now partially housed on the business park across the road from the campus, will be accommodated there in its entiretly from February 2004, therefore including educational science and technology that will leave the TO-building at that time. This will make room in that building for mathematical sciences, which after the fire managed to squeeze itself into the computer science building.
After that moving exercise Hall D will get a thorough overhaul to accommodate the faculty EEMCS (Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science). Mathematics will then move again.
The WB-building, just five years ago written off in plans at the time and maybe doomed to be demolished or disposed of, now gets to play an important role. The five halls of the building will be renovated and readied for education and research. They will be connected to the large hall in the tower section, which will function as a central meeting space of many kinds of students, teachers and researchers.
