Roaming an empty building has one advantage: you can focus on the elements the architect thought about when he was still at the drawing board: the use of space, walking directions, sightlines, light, the striking contrast between the clean, transparent offices and the round, black stairwells that cut through them. Managing Director of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics Alfons Bruekers, who has been challenged to the task of fitting two expanding departments at a shrinking campus into a single building, admires the transparency: “There’s hardly a spot that doesn’t have a 360-degree view of campus.”

Between December 1 and March next year, the new residents will move into their new home. University will try to work around exams and practicals, but also had to consider at what time the groups could leave their current homes. The first to move into Flux from December1 are the pioneers who’ll be preparing the moving in for the rest. After them, it’s the Video Coding and Architecture group of Electrical Engineering at Laplace, the branches of Applied Physics and the designer program located at Fontys (From December 15),  educational and departmental offices, and from next year those from Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics from the TNO building, as well as the people from Potentiaal, Impuls, and Corona.