BIG has designed the campus for a new STEM-focused university in Bentonville, Arkansas, backed by members of the Walton family and located on the former Walmart Home Office site. The project will span two city blocks and include three main buildings that reinterpret the local architectural vernacular, combining academic, research and urban life spaces.
The proposal aims to blur the boundaries between university and city, opening the campus to the wider community and turning it into a civic meeting point for Bentonville. Led by Bjarke Ingels, with Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects serving as architect of record, the project presents a new way of imagining an urban university: more connected, accessible and rooted in its growing context.
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