Get to know the Campus. Presentation of the University of Alicante

Get to know the Campus

The University of Alicante Campus is regarded as one of the best European campuses ¹ . We offer you the chance to enter the following links to know it better

Buildings and Architecture (under construction). This link represents one of the best ways of getting to know the architecture and landscape design of our University Campus. It offers information on the projects, architects, buildings...and provides technical information which both professionals and students of architecture and design will find especially interesting.
Campus Design Guides. The design and construction of the whole University of Alicante Campus in San Vicente del Raspeig has been carried out according to a carefully designed methodology following the guidelines set out below:
- Philosophy. All the works related to the campus philosophy and technical methodology are currently being compiled for their inclusion here. Meanwhile, the following materials are already available: a brief paper by President Andrés Pedreño, written in 1994 to explain the philosophy behind the planning and design of the Campus: Planteamiento Urbanístico de un campus: Universidad de Alicante . A chapter from Prof. Pedreño's books Universidad: utopías y realidades (University: Utopias and Realities ) further describes the development of the campus: Capitulo III: El desarrollo de un campus (The Development of a Campus), and was used to illustrate the attractive graphic material in 1999/98 University Annual Report
- Campus Design Guides. Technical materials and methodology of the design guides applied to our campus. A methodology that has been crucial in the final explanation of its execution, although a flexible follow-up of these Guides has been made.
- UAPARC Design Guides (maps). It is the same methodology applied to UAPARC with 42 maps referred to different aspects of the design.
History. Annual reports and material of interest are collected here.
- Annual report 1997/98:
  - Campus Development. A graphic and historical headcount of the campus. They collect many and interesting historical "photos". Links on the building of diverse emblematic buildings in our campus.
  - Flood 30/9/97. Excellent graphic memory elaborated by the Secretaría General on the grave floods that suffered our campus in 1997.
- Annual report 1998/99
  - Transformation of the Campus.
Awards and references in specialized journals. All references in specialized journals as well as awards, honourable mentions and further acknowledgements for our campus and architecture will be collected here. First list.
UA Architectural Studies:
- Departments. These are the departments related with the studies of Architecture in the University of Alicante: Architectural Construction and Graphic Expression and Cartography.
- Study Programmes. Information on the University of Alicante's Study Programmes in Architecture
- Conferences, events ...
Research. The campus, its philosophy, its image has been a referent for some of the most emblematic projects of our campus. This is the case of Naturaone of the main components of MedPark. It collects the future creation of a Landscape Design Centre or in the line of an environmental philosophy:
Land Art and Landscape. They are diverse the initiatives, some of lower order, that collect in this separated. We advised to the navegante that relax .
- Flowers in the Campus An authentic exhibition of the flowers provided by the four stations.
- Cactus.The collection of cactus in our campus is progressively growing.
- The Stone Campaign. This campaign was born as an equivalent answer to the Tree Campaign
- Fauna The campus has an increasing fauna, product of the green regeneration of the last years. The colony of birds is spectacular with our ducks at the Illustrated Forest. Several herons have seen some garzas (very to first hour of the morning), are looking for squirrels that accompany to our hedgehogs, rabbits, frogs, turtles and numerous fishes of the lakes. They admit photographies of our fauna for the album. Send.
- Vegetal species. It collects some of the vegetal species more curious of the campus. Many of these copies are donations of the Campaign of the Tree.
On-Campus Sculptures Little by little, the campus goes engalanando with works of the best sculptors. This is the case of the excellent piece of Arcadio Blasco, devoted to the pioneers that worked by the birth of our University. Also the gigantic hand of Pepe Díaz Azorín that expresses a homage to the University of Orihuela (1569-1824), remembering the efforts and anhelos of teachers and school of other centuries (Article of the prof. F. Miguel Pérez). Or Espai of llum, our dear "previous" columns to the ones of the Autonomous of Barcelona of Andreu Alfaro. Without forgetting that some of the best sculptures are the own buildings. And that besides we have this museum.
University Venues. This is, trocitos of our earth devoted to our municipalities or other earths. By the moment: the one of Pinoso represented by his good marble, the one of Elche evoking our Archaeologic Park of The Alcudia and the lady of Elche in one of the most attractive places of our campus, or the one of Europe, at the side of the Paraninfo. Soon we will expand the embassies to other municipalities or to institutions like the Olympic Movement.
Portal Audiovisual. In this Album collect all the previous photos, besides can find photos of almost the whole of the buildings of the campus. Remember that a big part of them can send them like postcards.
Awareness and Volunteering Actions:
- Green Office. Our students of the Council are very green. Here you will find some of his activities, included his active participation in the campaign of the tree that see next.
- Donation of trees (The Tree Campaign). More than 2,000 trees have been donated since the starting of this campaign in 1994. The campaign was opened with the donation of a sequoia of His Majesty the King Juan Carlos I.
- Campus-Bike Project In a good campus, bikes could never be missings: the best aesthetic and environmental complement for a healthy life and a way to remove noisy and contaminated environments. They helped us in his starts Miguel Indurain and Perico Thin, have claimed a lane bici, there are parkings, routes from the beach to the campus and until them save go in bici and give salvapantalones to the cyclists of the campus.
Videos and Webcam
- Portal Audiovisual. You Will find here beautiful images of our campus if you have installed the programs recommended to be able to see video by Internet. We recommended you that you puncture and see the Institutional Video of the University. Besides we are preparing other videos: Nature aerial Videos of the Campus.
- Image Workshop. Our Workshop of Image of the University of Alicante has splendid images of our campus, filmed through the program campus.
Services
- Gardening. The excellent team of gardeners that directs José Luis Romeu
- Maintenance. All this gives a lot of tin and it is necessary to keep it in shape. You can help us if you take advantage of this link and communicate us through the surveys as it works the service and if you observe an anomaly communicate it to us..
- Planning and projects. The Technical Office and of Planning of the University of Alicante (under construction).
- Water Treatment Plant. Thanks to the active collaboration of the Institute of the Water and Environment the campus projects an integral cycle of the water of the that already works to full performance the Plant Desalinizadora that contributes effectively to the abastecimiento of water, maximum guarantee for periods of extreme drought.
- Cartography and Information System. The University possesses an of the best applications in his systems of interactive cartographic information. You Will be able to obtain planes of the campus and of the buildings and how arrive to him.
- Disabled People. A page that pretends to provide information on the eases of our campus to people with discapacidades.
- Signaling. Our campus has premièred his signaling, takes advantage of all the indications.
- Other services. All the services of the campus.
How visit the campus
- Scheduled Visiting Programme for parents. If your son studies in the University of Alicante will teach you the campus during a weekend, ¡encourage you!.
- Institutional visits. Put in contact with the Vicerrectorado of Institutional Relations.
- Volunteering. Students interested in offering like volunteering to teach the campus put in contact with Vicerrectorado of Institutional Relations.
- Services for the visitor. Interactive page with a lot of useful information if you wish to visit the campus.
Suggestions. Every contribution you can make.