
Future Campus, University College Dublin
Dublin, Ireland
Status: Competition winner
The design for the Future Campus comprises a placemaking strategy that focuses on creating a Centre for Creative Design for UCD that acts as a gateway to seven new quadrangles of open green space for the university. Holl’s design, created with support from Dublin-based Kavanagh Tuite Architects, encompasses a new pedestrian spine lined with weather canopies that will double as solar connectors, forming the infrastructure of an energy network.

Future Campus, University College Dublin
Dublin, Ireland
Status: Competition winner
Nature and the heritage of UCD’s site informs the design. The new centre will be set by a plaza and a reflecting pool displaying prismatic forms inspired by the geology of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Giant’s Causeway. The shape of the auditorium echoes UCD’s iconic dodecahedral 1972 water tower.

Taiwan Chinpaosan Necropolis
Taipei, Taiwan
Scheduled completion: 2019
Located on an island 40 minutes from Taipei, the Necropolis of PaoSan required a new arrival hall for the complex of 10,000 existing burial sites and a new pavilion for 150,000 additional ashbox sites. Far from just a gateway, the arrival building contains a 21-room hotel, a restaurant, a ceremonial chapel, an auditorium, and two small museums. Its capacity for visitors on ceremonial days reaches to 1,000 in addition to the 50 presiding Buddhist monks who conduct the ceremonies, while an adjoining amphitheatre will seat 5,000.

Taiwan Chinpaosan Necropolis
Taipei, Taiwan
Scheduled completion: 2019
The form of the building is made up of intersecting spheres that are embedded in a rectangular plan topped by a sheet of water. The design was inspired by how the Necropolis caters to all religions. Holl drew intersecting circles to trace circulation typologies, which manifested into the design as intersecting spheres. Further studies with models showed how the overlapping perspectives created an astonishing spatial energy with the geometry referencing a rich ancient history of symbolism – from Borromean Rings in Buddhist Art, to Viking rune-stones and Roman mosaics.

Hunters Point Community Library
Long Island City, NY, US
Scheduled completion: 2019
Located on the East River, The Queens Library at Hunters Point aims to bring community-devoted space to the increasingly privatised Long Island City waterfront with its public space and park. The exposed concrete structure painted in parts with aluminium will stand out against a backdrop of skyscrapers in the area.

Hunters Point Community Library
Long Island City, NY, US
Scheduled completion: 2019
A golden-section upturned rectangle has been carved out of the form, correlating to the predicted browsing habits of people inside the library. Glazed cuts in the façade open up views toward the city as people continue through the library up a series of bookshelf-flanked stairs. The main view to Manhattan has been placed perpendicularly to the internal movement of the library, giving visitors to this small space a dramatic experience.