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===The Chamber===
===The Chamber===
The Chamber is located in the south and is a centralized hub of activity, creating a diversity of transparent settings, planned spatially around a central three-story atrium space.The building’s architecture reflects contemporary trends and innovations in the workplace sector, now being increasingly adopted in business education. These foster collaboration through transparency, drive student knowledge through experiential learning and perpetuate innovation through designated meeting spaces, group work, spontaneous encounters and quiet individual reflection. An equal focus was spent on the careful design of the academic workplaces. This is increasingly becoming a focus of university communities because of the growing pressure on the need for research. In particular, this has led to a renewed interest in the notion of collegiality and the potential for unstructured intellectual exchange.
[[File:Fortuna Chamber 01.jpg|thumb|The main building of The Chamber|alt=|left]]The Chamber is located in the south and is a centralized hub of activity, creating a diversity of transparent settings, planned spatially around a central three-story atrium space.The building’s architecture reflects contemporary trends and innovations in the workplace sector, now being increasingly adopted in business education. These foster collaboration through transparency, drive student knowledge through experiential learning and perpetuate innovation through designated meeting spaces, group work, spontaneous encounters and quiet individual reflection. An equal focus was spent on the careful design of the academic workplaces. This is increasingly becoming a focus of university communities because of the growing pressure on the need for research. In particular, this has led to a renewed interest in the notion of collegiality and the potential for unstructured intellectual exchange.


At Fortuna's business school, the result is a contemporary take on the traditional ‘club’. While the core need for collegiality remains, academics in today’s university environments can do without the typical social and cultural inhibitors associated with traditional clubs – exclusivity, a closed-door policy, isolation, and structure. Instead, the workplace at Fortuna's business school fosters unstructured transitional process – the same processes of collaboration, innovation, and connectivity that underpin the private sector. Rigorous education-specific space auditing combined with the solid consultation process resulted in a 10 percent saving in space from the original brief which was reinvested in a number of ways, such as: – the creation of a new collaborative and collegiate workplace model for academics; – new learning environments such as collaborative social spaces and breakout spaces; and – chilled beam climate control.  
At Fortuna's business school, the result is a contemporary take on the traditional ‘club’. While the core need for collegiality remains, academics in today’s university environments can do without the typical social and cultural inhibitors associated with traditional clubs – exclusivity, a closed-door policy, isolation, and structure. Instead, the workplace at Fortuna's business school fosters unstructured transitional process – the same processes of collaboration, innovation, and connectivity that underpin the private sector. Rigorous education-specific space auditing combined with the solid consultation process resulted in a 10 percent saving in space from the original brief which was reinvested in a number of ways, such as: – the creation of a new collaborative and collegiate workplace model for academics; – new learning environments such as collaborative social spaces and breakout spaces; and – chilled beam climate control.  
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===Fortuna Hall===
===Fortuna Hall===
The campus for the Fortuna Institute's most prestigious law school comprises of a 43,000 square foot complex dedicated to the education and the research. It's open in an economical and social environment in partnership with the a large roster of companies onboard a joint-venture program. Built in the Arbolo Gardens, the installation of the new buildings overhang of the existing parking area guarantees the durability of the woods. The present buildings are rehabilitated.  
[[File:Fortuna Law 01.jpg|thumb|One of the buildings in Fortuna Hall|alt=|left]]The campus for the Fortuna Institute's most prestigious law school comprises of a 43,000 square foot complex dedicated to the education and the research. It's open in an economical and social environment in partnership with the a large roster of companies onboard a joint-venture program. Built in the Arbolo Gardens, the installation of the new buildings overhang of the existing parking area guarantees the durability of the woods. The present buildings are rehabilitated.  


The work spaces are functional and answer to the comfort expected for the users and innovative services such as an e-learning platform, research laboratories, and even an incubator are available. But the specific feature of the campus is the ability to "offer more". The distension of the distribution spaces magnifies the space more. The areas of free movement become independent work spaces or places of exchanges. These spaces receive associations, companies, and institution when punctual events happen in the campus calendar. The opening of the campus to the city allow a more informal way of exchanges. The amphitheater and the restaurant are available for the resident of the city. The sports hub open is door to the associations of the borough. The park generates a place for a walk opened to everybody.
The work spaces are functional and answer to the comfort expected for the users and innovative services such as an e-learning platform, research laboratories, and even an incubator are available. But the specific feature of the campus is the ability to "offer more". The distension of the distribution spaces magnifies the space more. The areas of free movement become independent work spaces or places of exchanges. These spaces receive associations, companies, and institution when punctual events happen in the campus calendar. The opening of the campus to the city allow a more informal way of exchanges. The amphitheater and the restaurant are available for the resident of the city. The sports hub open is door to the associations of the borough. The park generates a place for a walk opened to everybody.

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