BIG最新方案：沃尔玛总部旧址上的全新大学，一所没有边界的校园

项目名称  STEM University

设计单位  Bjarke Ingels Group

项目地点  美国阿肯色州本顿维尔

方案状态 设计中

建筑面积  422,372平方英尺

本文英文原文由Bjarke Ingels Group提供，由有方编译。

这所聚焦STEM（科学、技术、工程和数学）教育的大学由BIG与Polk Stanley Wilcox联合设计，将在美国阿肯色州西北部打造一所全新的世界一流高等学府。校园选址于原沃尔玛总部所在地，作为本顿维尔市中心的延伸，由三座特色鲜明的建筑组成，并通过一条串联公共广场与绿色开放空间的活力主轴相互连接：作为校园核心的创客空间，被打造为灵活的创新枢纽；旨在促进跨学科交流的教学楼；以及围绕宽敞户外庭院布局的学生宿舍。

Designed by BIG and Polk Stanley Wilcox, the STEM-focused university establishes an entirely new world-class learning institution in Northwest Arkansas. Positioned as an extension of downtown Bentonville onto the site of the former Walmart Home Office, the campus comprises three distinctive buildings connected by a spine of active public plazas and green spaces: a makerspace envisioned as a flexible innovation hub that anchors campus life; an academic building designed to create dialogue across disciplines; and student residences organized around generous outdoor courtyards.

该项目由沃尔顿家族成员于2025年委托设计，是一项罕见的公共投资，旨在于本顿维尔市中心创建一所全新的大学，培养扎根本地、面向未来的新一代创新人才。校园包括一座面积约130,614平方英尺（约12,135平方米）的多功能创客空间，一座面积约147,525平方英尺（约13,706平方米）的教学楼，内设教室、实验室、教师办公空间及行政办公区域，以及一栋提供400个床位、配备餐饮及共享配套设施的学生宿舍楼。

Commissioned by members of the Walton family in 2025, the project represents a rare civic investment: the creation of a new university in the heart of Bentonville, designed to cultivate the next generation of innovators rooted in the region. The urban university encompasses a 130,614-sq-ft dynamic makerspace; a 147,525-sq-ft academic building housing classrooms, lab facilities, faculty spaces, and offices; and a 400-bed student residential building with dining and shared amenities.

“我们期待将BIG的愿景带到本顿维尔，助力这所新大学成为现实。他们为我们打造的总体规划和建筑设计大胆、富有想象力，同时兼具高度的实用性。这些设计不仅将激励我们的学生和教师，也将与本顿维尔的城市环境和自然景观相得益彰。”

"We're eager to bring the vision of Bjarke Ingels Group to Bentonville to help us make this newuniversity a reality. The master plan and building designs they have given us are bold, imaginative, andhighly practical all at once. They willinspire our students and faculty while complementing Bentonville'surban and natural landscape."

——Tom Walton

校园位于本顿维尔市中心广场东北侧与Gateway Park西南侧之间，以一条曾斜穿城市的历史铁路为规划主轴展开布局。设计从本顿维尔丰富的城市公园体系中汲取灵感，通过一系列户外公共活动空间将自然重新引入场地，并在周边欧扎克地区的自然景观中，将校园生活与城市生活有机交织在一起。

Situated between Bentonville's downtown square to the northeast and Gateway Park to the southwest, the campus is organized around a historic rail line that ran diagonally through the city. Drawing inspiration from Bentonville's abundant urban parks, the design brings nature back to the site through outdoor gathering spaces that weave student and city life together within the surrounding Ozark region landscape.

“位于本顿维尔市中心的这所全新STEM大学，旨在弥合学术界与现实工作世界之间长期存在的隔阂。对于这座新校园，我们希望打造一个充满活力、融合开放的新街区，打破校园与社区之间的边界，让教师、市民共同参与其中。创客空间被构想为一座‘可参与的展示平台’，向来往市民展示实体实验与快速原型制作的创新文化。我们希望，通过将校园真正融入社区，使高等教育无论在学术层面还是社会层面都更加开放、更加触手可及。我们很荣幸能够与沃尔顿家族合作，共同构想一所位于本顿维尔中心、面向未来的新型城市大学的学术环境。”

"The new STEM university in downtown Bentonville seeks to bridge the disconnect that often exists between academia and the working world around it. For the new campus, we have sought to break down the boundaries between campus and community through a lively new integrated neighborhood for faculty and citizens alike. The makerspace is conceived as an inhabited showcase, displaying a culture of physical experimentation and rapid prototyping to passing citizens. It is our hope that this integration of the campus into the community will make higher education as accessible as possible, academically as well as socially.

We are honored to work with the Walton family on imagining the future academic environment for a new kind of urban university in the heart of Bentonville."

——Bjarke Ingels，BIG创始人兼创意总监

—Bjarke Ingels, Founder & Creative Director, BIG

作为大学广场的核心建筑，创客空间采用耐候钢外立面，材料将随着时间逐渐形成自然锈蚀质感，呼应阿肯色州西北部的工业历史，并回应当地气候。建筑体量由一系列层层叠置、彼此错动且相互咬合的空间组成，在营造开放氛围、促进思想交流的同时，也塑造出丰富多样的室内空间。

Anchoring the university square, the makerspace is clad in Corten steel that will patina over time, speaking to Northwest Arkansas's industrial heritage and the project's relationship to the local climate. The split massing—a series of stacked, offset, and interlocking volumes—fosters openness and the exchange of ideas while shaping a diverse range of interior spaces.

受工业建筑启发的展示橱窗与耐候钢网状雨篷能够有效降低太阳热辐射，同时展现通高玻璃幕墙后的学生创作与实验活动。层层退台的绿色露台向公共广场延伸，将校园活力自然引入建筑内部。

Industrial-inspired vitrines and weathering steel mesh awnings mitigate solar heat gain, revealing floor-to-ceiling windows that put the students' creativity and experimentation on display. Green terraces step down towards the public plaza, drawing campus activity into the building.

位于SW E Street另一侧的教学楼采用层层叠置的条形体量设计，每层沿不同方向错动排列，形成室内露台与穿堂风廊，呼应欧扎克地区乡土建筑中常见的“Dogtrot”（穿堂式住宅）空间形式。自然采光充足的中庭与富有表现力的楼梯迎接学生、教师、工作人员及访客的到来，教室、实验室和办公空间则穿插分布于建筑各处，以促进跨领域协作。条形体量之间形成的通透空间建立了不同楼层之间的视觉联系。

Across SW E Street, the academic building is conceived as an efficient stack of bars that alternate directions on every floor, creating interior terraces and breezeways that evoke the dogtrot style of home common in Ozark vernacular architecture. A daylit atrium and dramatic staircase welcome students, faculty, staff, and visitors, while classrooms, labs, and offices are interspersed throughout the building to foster collaboration. The porous spaces between the bars create visual connections across floors.

教学楼采用弧形金属立面，其设计借鉴了原木住宅中雕刻木构件相互咬合的传统做法，以当代语言重新诠释阿肯色州西北部常见的建筑形式。

The academic building's curved metal facade alludes to the interlocking of the carved timber elements in log houses, a contemporary take on an architectural form common to Northwest Arkansas.

建筑收分的体量激活了街道界面，营造出富有吸引力的遮荫空间，引导人们步入其中。露台自广场层层向上延展，与街对面创客空间的阶梯式退台设计相互呼应。

The tapered form activates the streetscape, creating shaded areas that invite people inside. Terraces ascend up the building from the plaza, echoing the stepped design of the makerspace across the street.

学生宿舍楼采用“8”字形平面布局，在四层设置了两处露台，并在餐厅及共享配套空间屋顶打造了两座彼此独立的架空庭院。一座庭院沐浴晨光，另一座则享受午后的阳光，二者共同将校园绿地延伸至建筑内部。每间宿舍均拥有充足的自然采光，面向外部布置，可眺望校园及周边公园景观。

The student residence building is organized as a figure-eight, carving out two terraces on the fourth floor along with two separate elevated courtyards perched atop a dining hall and shared amenity spaces. While one courtyard is bathed in morning light, the other sees afternoon sun, with both extending the campus greens into the building. Every room is washed in daylight, oriented outward with views of the campus and parks beyond.

“对于本顿维尔这所全新的STEM大学，我们设计了一座能够全面支持学生学习与生活体验的校园。宿舍楼、教学楼和创客空间三座建筑分别承载着校园生活的不同维度，从学习与协作，到实验与创新，各自发挥着独特作用。正如三座建筑共同串联起完整的大学生活体验一样，它们也通过契合欧扎克地区特色的温暖天然材料，自然地将校园与本顿维尔市中心联系起来：创客空间采用具有工业气质的耐候钢，教学楼采用会随着时间优雅氧化的铜材，而宿舍楼则采用带有红色调的水泥板。”

"For the new STEM university in Bentonville, we've designed a campus that supports the full student experience. Each of the three buildings—the residence hall, academic building, and makerspace—fosters a different element of campus life, from study and collaboration to experimentation and innovation. Just as the buildings connect the different aspects of the collegiate experience, they also naturally connect the campus to downtown Bentonville through warm, natural materials suited to the Ozark region: weathered steel for the industrial makerspace, copper that will age gracefully over time for the refined academic building, and red-hued cement panels for the residence hall."

——Thomas Christoffersen，BIG合伙人
——Thomas Christoffersen, Partner, BIG

“BIG正在为本顿维尔不断壮大的当代建筑与景观设计项目贡献重要力量。这些项目各具鲜明特色，却又彼此协调统一，充分体现了BIG以及参与这些校园项目的其他知名建筑师都深刻理解：这些设计不仅需要体现我们所在地区的地域精神，也应当以开放、友好的姿态迎接社区公众。”

"Bjarke Ingels Group is making an important contribution to Bentonville's growing collection of contemporary architecture and landscape design projects. Each has its own strong identity, but they all harmonize, showing that BIG and the other acclaimed architects working on these campuses understand that these designs need to have a sense of place of our region, and be welcoming to our community."

——Alice Walton

这所STEM大学计划于2029年迎来首届学生。该项目进一步丰富了BIG在高等教育领域的项目版图，与其已完成或即将建成的多个高校项目共同构成这一系列实践，包括马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校的伊森伯格创新中心、约翰斯·霍普金斯大学的彭博学生中心、克莱蒙特·麦肯纳学院的罗伯特·戴科学中心，以及即将在巴黎启用的索邦大学创新城（Cité de l'Innovation Sorbonne Université）。

The STEM university intends to welcome its first class of students in 2029. The project adds to BIG's expanding portfolio within higher education, alongside the Isenberg Innovation Hub at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the Bloomberg Student Center at Johns Hopkins University, the Robert Day Sciences Center at Claremont McKenna College, and the soon-to-open Cité de l'Innovation Sorbonne Université in Paris.

完整项目信息

Size: 422,372 sq ft

Location: Bentonville, Arkansas

Client: Walton family members

Collaborators: Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects, Walter P Moore, CCC – Crossland Construction, Legends Ownership Representation, Buro Happold, CCI, HEI Henderson Engineers, Heintges, JME Design, KGM Architectural Lighting, LERA Consulting, Lerch Bates, RFD, Schuler Shook, Studio 08, Threshold Acoustics, EDSA, UES

BIG TEAM

Partners in Charge: Bjarke Ingels, Thomas Christoffersen

Senior Project Manager: Aran Coakley

Project Manager: Michelle Stromsta

Project Leaders: Chris Tron (Makerspace Building), Nicholas Reddon (Academic Building + Student Residences)

Technical Lead: Dina Mahmoud

Project Coordinator: Ethan Floyd

Project Job Captains: Hector Romero (Academic Building), Lucia Sanchez Ramirez (Makerspace Building), Yasamin Mayyas (Student Residences)

Team: Anirudh Chandar, Artem Chouliak, Ben Caldwell, Cooper Raposo, Crystal Wenjie Wang, Eliza Austin, Einat Lubliner, Evan James Hotary, Foad Sarsangi, Gary Polk, Gyeom Chung, Haoran Yuan, Hint Sakdanaraseth, Jan Casimir, Jan Leenknegt, Jason Wu, Jeff Tao, Jialin Yuan, Kai Huang, Margaret Tyrpa, Mateo Deza, Mama Wu, Minjung Ku, Nasig Khan, Naser Fakhouri, Novak Djogo, Omer Khan, Rafael Alvarez, Ricardo Palma Prieto, Ryan Harvey, Samuel Bager, Spencer Hayden, Suj Lee, Sung-hwan Um, Vi Madrazo, Yuwei Yang

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