Survey and schematic proposal of infrastructure of the Bluefields BICU Campus

Abstract

The Bluefields Indian and Caribbean University is a more than thirty year old university in the city of Bluefields, which has been constructing buildings along its main campus, but in a disorderly manner and without following a defined planning. The objective of this research is to give a schematic proposal of infrastructure to the university, recommending how it should be organized in terms of areas and directions. During the research, the academic and administrative authorities of the university were interviewed, and a physical survey of the existing buildings of the headquarters was carried out in order to prepare architectural floor plans. The growth of students, teachers and workers that the university would have in the next 30 years was determined. It was determined that the university currently has four faculties divided into 13 schools offering 26 professional careers. The campus has an area occupied in infrastructure of 53% of the land; it also has approximately 112 administrative workers, 50 people in academic areas, 235 hourly teachers and 1556 students. A growth rate of 2.33% was determined and used to establish the growth of the areas and management of the university. The division into 7 zones was proposed: rectory, administration, academic, student welfare, research with technological support, sports and experimental farm. Requiring a space of 9.15 hectares in the first six and 35 hectares in the last one.