Dubai: University named among top 10 ‘quirkiest’ college campuses

Dubai: University named among top 10 ‘quirkiest’ college campuses

A university in Dubai has been named among the ten Quirkiest College Campus designs in a recent listing by American magazine, Newsweek.

The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) Dubai’s Innovation Centre, which is the centrepiece of the University’s new campus in Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO), has been recognised alongside structures across the globe for its creative, avant-garde design.

Built with an overarching theme of interactive learning, the DSO campus was conceptualised as a bitboard, with the Innovation Centre representing the glass piece that makes the whole grid operational.

Shedding light on the building’s concept RIT Dubai President, Dr Yousef Al-Assaf, opined, “The campus is built on four pillars – innovation, smartness, sustainability and connectivity – and we needed a signature building with a unique design to help connect these principles. The Innovation Centre was positioned at the heart of the campus such that all our activities rotate around innovation, and this is demonstrated to visitors through the unique building design.”

The Innovation Centre was inaugurated in November last year by His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of The Executive Council of Dubai, as part of the official opening of the new 129,000 meters square