Shantou University Medical College
The new SUMC building aims to provide a central building for Shantou University Medical College to accommodate a multiplicity of medical education facilities for currently 2600 students. The current college is split in two locations across the city. The original compound is located in the dense old city of Shantou with little opportunity for expansion and growth. In the past years, additional spaces have been made available temporarily on the Shantou University campus 12km outside of the city, to cope with a fast growing number of students and increasing demand for teaching facilities. Following a vision to promote interdisciplinary exchange by combining the university and the medical college in one campus and based on a master plan developed by Herzog & de Meuron in 2003, the client has chosen a site at the main campus gate to realize the new SUMC building. Herzog & de Meuron were commissioned in 2009 with the design. Shantou is a subtropical harbor city with 5.5 million inhabitants in the Guangdong Province in southern China and one of five Special Economic Administration Zones in China established in 1980 to stimulate economic growth and overseas trade.
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