The new RCA Battersea Building designed by Herzog  de Meuron scheduled to complete by 2020. Image: © Herzog  de Meuron

The Royal College of Art (RCA) has announced a campus refresh that will evolve the educational vision of the post-graduate university. Architectural updates include a new Herzog - de Meuron building and a revitalisation of the historic Kensington campus. These will contribute to the hastening academic pursuit of the RCA to cross-pollinate design disciplines with those of science.

英国皇家艺术学院(RCA)宣布了一项校园更新计划，这将使这所研究生院的教育理念得以发展。架构更新包括一个新的Herzog

Herzog - de Meuron’s building design for the Battersea campus – for which 70 per cent of philanthropic funding has now been achieved – will hold a vast, flexible hangar-style space at its heart, flanked by two adjoined buildings catering to studios, workshops, labs and research centre facilities.

Herzog - de Meuron’s building design for the Battersea campus – for which 70 per cent of philanthropic funding has now been achieved – will hold a vast, flexible hangar-style space at its heart, flanked by two adjoined buildings catering to studios, workshops, labs and research centre facilities.

The new RCA Battersea Building. Image: © Herzog - de Meuron

新的RCA巴特西大楼。图片：C.Herzog

After this project completes (2022 projected) attention will turn to the historic campus in Kensington. The Darwin Building, designed by British architects Sir Hugh Casson, H.T. Cadbury-Brown and Robert Goodden and opened in 1961, will undergo revitalisation. Plans will dramatically update function, yet also look back to celebrate and reconnect with the radical founding values of the college.

在这个项目完成后(2022年预计)，注意力将转向肯辛顿的历史校园。达尔文大厦由英国建筑师休·卡森爵士、吉百利-布朗和罗伯特·古登共同设计，1961年开业。计划将戏剧性地更新功能，但也回顾过去，庆祝和重新连接学院的激进的创建价值观。

RCA Darwin Building, Kensington

RCA达尔文大厦，肯辛顿

Founded in 1837, the RCA is a postgraduate university that describes itself as a ‘radical traditionalist in a fast-paced world.’ First founded as a response to the first Industrial revolution, now the school is reacting to the current digital and economic revolution. New programmes with a focus on nano and soft robotics, computer science and machine learning, materials science and the circular economy such as the already introduced Environmental Architecture and Digital Direction programmes that will be developed and expanded on further – all made possible by the new building and campus designs.

RCA成立于1837年，是一所研究生大学，自诩为“世界上的激进传统主义者”。最初是为了回应第一次工业革命而成立的，现在学校对当前的数字和经济革命作出了反应。以纳米和软机器人、计算机科学和机器学习、材料科学和循环经济为重点的新方案，例如已经推出的环境建筑和数字方向方案，将进一步发展和扩大-所有这些方案都是由于新建筑和校园设计而得以实现的。

Notable architectural alumni include Sir Ridley Scott, Sir David Adjaye and Thomas Heatherwick, while the Sir Jony Ive takes up the position of chancellor. Ive describes the university as an environment of cross-pollination that ‘encourages an acceptance of the challenges associated with doing hard things, encouraging the curiosity, openness and care that are at the heart of innovation’. §

著名的建筑校友包括雷德利·斯科特爵士、戴维·阿贾耶爵士和托马斯·海瑟威克爵士，而乔尼·艾夫爵士则担任校长一职。我将这所大学描述为一种交叉授粉的环境，“鼓励人们接受与做艰难事情相关的挑战，鼓励创新的核心-好奇心、开放性和关心”。§