HEC MBA Building

The business school, founded in 1881, has occupied a large wooded campus outside the capital since 1964. The British design team won the competition for a new MBA building at the meeting point of the existing campus and its planned southern expansion, giving the school a new façade toward the main entrance.

On a long, narrow site, the building volume is broken into a series of faceted blocks whose size fits the scale of the surrounding buildings. The blocks shift in plan, creating sheltered semi-courtyards between them.

Shared functions and the more independent teaching spaces gather around a large common hall that crosses a campus route, acting as a social collector that ties the MBA into the life of the school. Generous informal study areas run throughout.