Sustainable Brasilia’s University Campus Expansion

The present paper shows the sustainability principles adopted in the urban design of the southern extremity expansion of the Campus of the University of Brasilia, in which will feature a Scientific and Technological Park. From the analysis of a number of environmental conditioners, the structural core of the design was a fragment of Cerrado, aiming to recover the original idea behind Brasilia’s implementation. To achieve connectiveness with the larger fragments by green infrastructure techniques were used. We must remind ourselves that the original project stated that human occupation should be adapted to the local topography as well as the draining curves within the Paranoá Lake Basin, even when far from it, in order not to compromise the hydrologic sustainability of the region. The configuration here proposed uses green infrastructure techniques, small bioclimatically treated squares along infiltration channels to reinforce the neighborhood feeling, cycle ways, increased density to diminish displacement and the higher typologies placed on higher ground to avoid interfering in the predominant wind directions