18/06/2026
Universitas: Reimagining the Vietnamese University Campus
What if a university campus was designed around relationships rather than buildings?
Designed by G8A Architecture & Urban Planning in collaboration with Allies and Morrison and OMGEVING, with visualisation by MA, the proposed University of Economics and Business campus in Hoa Lac explores how learning can unfold in dialogue with community, landscape, and the relationships through which knowledge is shared, ideas are tested, and futures begin to take shape.
Conceived as a living framework rather than a singular object, the masterplan is structured around a gradual transition between urbanity and landscape, institution and community, and formal and informal modes of exchange.
The result is a campus designed not only to support education today, but to evolve alongside the people who will shape its future—a university defined as much by the relationships it fosters between people, place, and knowledge as by the buildings themselves.
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Project: Design proposal for University of Economics and Business campus in Hoa Lac, Vietnam
University: VNU University of Economics and Business, a member of Vietnam National University
Architecture: G8A Architects, Allies and Morrison
Landscape: OMGEVING
Visualisation: MA
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