The school appearance of Duke University

Duke University owns 34.8 square kilometers of land, including 29 square kilometers of Duke Forest and 220 buildings built on it. The tallest building in the center of the campus is Duke Cathedral. Duke University has a marine laboratory in beaufort on the Atlantic coast, covering an area of 65,438+05 acres. The school has a free bus line running continuously every day, connecting various campuses. Located in the southeast of the United States, Durham, North Carolina, together with Chapel Hill and Raleigh, the capital of North Carolina, forms a famous triangle of humanities and geography research, and is the third largest concentration of biomedical technology and related industries in the United States.

The four seasons in North Carolina are not distinct. There are 220 sunny days in a year, and autumn starts from September to 165438+ 10. It is not very cold in winter, and it snows only once a year on average.

Nasher Art Museum

It was completed on June 5438+1October 2, 2005, with a cost of US$ 23 million and an area of 6 120 square meters. It inherits the Gothic and Georgian architectural styles of Duke campus in style. The Art Museum intends to build a unique landmark building on the campus of Duke University, which will provide a powerful magnet for Duke University to attract students, faculty, alumni and tourists, and become the cultural life center of Duke University and Raleigh/Durham community. It has 65,438+3,000 works of art, including works by andy warhol, Henri de Toulouse-Rotleck and Pablo Ruiz Picasso. Besides, it also has rooms that can be used as classrooms and exhibition halls.

Nasher Art Museum consists of five Platonic single buildings with different functions, one for permanent collection, two for temporary exhibition, one for auditorium and one for classrooms, cafes, administrative offices and other supporting facilities. These five independent venues are built around the high point of a gentle slope on the site, in a soothing radial shape, surrounded by an irregular pentagonal courtyard with a light canopy made of glass and steel frames, which constitutes the hall of the whole museum and is designed as a sculpture art exhibition hall. The open space between the venues brings a good view to the hall. In order to blur the boundary between internal and external space, the floor design of the hall extends to the periphery of the hall, outlining the entrance and exit porches and an independent terrace cafe. The five venues are assembled into a whole building in the form of doors, windows and curtain walls, and the area is limited. Dukeshi, the main building material of the building, endows the building with excellent texture and warm earth tone. This warm local stone is widely used in other old buildings on Duke University campus, so Duke University has created a sense of harmony that echoes each other.

West campus

Students often refer to the West Campus as "Gothic Paradise". This nickname comes from the architecture of the West Campus during the Gothic Renaissance (18th century in England). Most of these buildings were designed by Julian Abel, the first black architect in America. The main square court belongs to a very simple early architectural style. In contrast, the architecture of the college square court shows the influence of the late French and Italian architectural styles.

There are seven basic colors and seventeen different colors of stone used in the West Campus. The school's director in charge of planning and architecture once described these stones as "ancient and attractive ancient styles" and "warmer and softer than the stones used in Princeton". They look particularly beautiful because they are stacked together with a shadow line in the middle. Mr. James Duke, the founder of Duke University, initially proposed to mine stones from Princeton, New Jersey, but later, in order to save money, he mined the stones he needed in Hillsburgh, North Carolina. The center of the West Campus is Duke Cathedral and the religious center of Trinity College of Duke University. It took five years to build from 1930 to 1935. The church can accommodate 1600 people. It is 64 meters high and is one of the tallest buildings in Durham.

The West Campus is the center of Duke University. In addition to all sophomores living in the west campus, there are also some juniors and seniors living here. Most of the academic and management institutions of the school are here. The main part of the West Campus is centered on Duke Church, with residential court in the south and academic court, Perkins Library and medical center in the north. The West Campus also includes Science Road, Fuku Business School, Law School and School of Public Relations, where the Science and Technology Building is located. Finally, most restaurants and sports facilities are located in Cameron Indoor Stadium, which is also located in the West Campus.

East campus

In fact, the East Campus was the main campus of Duke University in its early days. Between 1930 and 1972, it was once the seat of women's college. It has become an activity area for freshmen. In addition, there are some departments here, including art history department, history department, literature department, music department, philosophy department and women's studies department. There are other advanced courses here, including dance, drama, education, movies and school writing projects. In addition, some residents in the East Campus are freshmen, and only freshmen can live here except senior students who are administrators. In this way, a United peer team has been formed year after year. East Campus is a self-sufficient campus, with a freshman dormitory, a dining center, Lily Library, Baldwin Auditorium, a theater, Broudy Sports, tennis courts and several teaching buildings. The east campus is 2.4 kilometers away from the west campus, and the two campuses are located on both sides of a expressway in Durham. However, it is not difficult to go back and forth between the two campuses, and the campus bus is also very convenient and fast.

Intermediate campus

The central campus covers an area of 200 acres and is located between the east campus and the west campus. Some juniors, seniors and graduate students (such as students from law schools and medical schools) live in the central campus. The Nash Museum mentioned above is also located in the central campus, and there are also some management institutions such as Jewish Life Center, Police Station, Children's Center, McDonald's Children's Center and Home Life Service. There are many entertainment and social places in the central campus, such as basketball court, tennis court, beach volleyball court, swimming pool, open-air barbecue picnic area and so on.

Since 2008, Duke University plans to rebuild its central campus in the next 20 to 50 years. The goal of this plan is to build the central campus into an ideal academic village to serve all members of Duke University. The first phase of the plan is expected to invest 240 million yuan, including the construction of catering, academic, entertainment and service facilities. The key of this innovation plan is to make the central campus better integrate into the whole campus and change the current situation that it relies on circuitous and inefficient bus lines to connect the other two campuses.

Duke forest

Duke Forest, founded in 193 1, covers an area of 29 square kilometers and is located in six areas in the west of Duke University's west campus. It is one of the largest sustainable forests in the United States, and all management records are well preserved. To this day, Duke Forest still interprets many different forest forms and the significance of afforestation. Forests are also widely used in various studies. Now there are water layer research devices, forest carbon transfer storage devices, two towers for micrometeorology research, and other areas for studying animal behavior and ecology. Miles of footpaths

Stretching in the forest, it is especially suitable for people to relax here. Duke men's and women's cross-country long-distance running teams, which are among the best in the United States, often train here.

Located in Duke Forest, the Lemur Center is the largest rare primitive monkey habitat in the world. It was founded in 1966 and covers an area of 344,000 square meters. There are 25 species of nearly 300 lemurs, marmosets and sloths. Duke Forest is also the main planting area of American Christmas trees.

Duke garden

Sarah P Duke Garden, built in the early 1930s, covers an area of 223,000 square meters and is one of the main attractions of Duke campus. It is divided into three main parts: the main terrace and its surrounding area, the local botanical garden of H.L.Blomquist, and the Culberson Asian Botanical Garden. There is an 8-kilometer-long tree-lined path through the center of Doris Duke and the surrounding gardens.

Duke University has several dormitories that can accommodate 5,265 students. It is worth mentioning that the security of the dormitory is tight, with 24-hour security equipment, and the doors are locked with electromagnetic locks. People entering and leaving the dormitory must have magnetic cards. 90% students choose to live on campus, because the university dormitory is well-equipped and closely guarded.

The students in this school have done well in sports and their achievements are impressive. Among them, men's basketball team, rugby team and football team won the championship in the National Games for many times, and women's sports performance was not inferior to that of men, especially women's tennis, volleyball and golf teams, which ranked among the top ten excellent teams in the National University Games.