The LCI Barcelona higher school of design and visual arts will open its new 22@ campus at the start of the next academic year. It will do so after an investment of 35 million euros and three years of construction work, which were affected by the pandemic. The new location of the training center will allow it to expand the number of students it hosts annually, increasing from 2,000 to 3,000 per course.
The campus's location within 22@ will allow the academic institution to improve its connection with companies operating from the technology district. The opening of the center will mean leaving behind the headquarters at number 209 Balmes Street, where the school currently operates, founded in 2013 after the association of the Canadian LCI Education with the Felicidad Duce Fashion School.
The new center will have an area of about 11,000 square meters, and will be located specifically at the intersection of Àlaba and Sancho d'Àvila streets, a few blocks from the transformed Glòries. The school announced in mid-2022 the construction of this campus, after selling its owned land to an investment fund, which has promoted the project. From the new center, LCI will provide training in design in fields such as interiors, product, animation, video games, photography and, inevitably, fashion. In this sense, the academic institution maintains the legacy of the historic Felicidad Duce, who founded her school and fashion workshop with her own method in 1928.
LCI Barcelona is one of the prominent higher education institutions that LCI Education has distributed worldwideLCI's objective with its move to 22@ is to consolidate itself as an international benchmark in the field of design and visual arts. The CEO of LCI Education, Claude Marchand, has predicted that the inauguration of the new campus will be a success: "We believe that urban campuses in dynamic and creative cities are the best environment for students." With the spaces, equipment, and technologies that the center will have, LCI aims to attract students and professionals worldwide. Precisely to facilitate the arrival of new talents to the academic institution, the center will launch financial aid for new students.
The new LCI school will be equipped with technology aimed at the training of its students, as well as sustainability elements. In this sense, it will feature a dry aluminum facade, a recyclable material with a life cycle that allows its reuse. So much so, that the building's own metallic structure is recoverable and 100% recyclable. In addition, it will have a green roof that will facilitate thermal insulation, use photovoltaic energy, enable mechanisms for the recovery of gray water from the building, and collect rainwater for the maintenance of the center's green areas.
LCI Barcelona is one of the prominent higher education institutions that LCI Education has distributed worldwide. One of the most relevant centers in the field of design and visual arts is the one in the Catalan capital, a city where LCI Education's European leader, Alessandro Manetti, is precisely based.
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