The case of Limassol and the Cyprus University of Technology is very similar to the case of the University of Thessaly in Volos. The size of the city is analogue, the inner city is full of listed buildings which are to be utilized by the university, while in the near future is anticipated the development of the biggest part of the university at an individual campus relatively peripheral to the inner core of the city. The distinctiveness of the Limassol case has to do mainly with the more favorable institutional, economical and organizational framework, which allows a) a much more complete aspect of all the university’s assets (already owned, to be developed or to be acquired) and b) a design of more distinctive units which defines explicitly the influence of the urban university grid.

The main strategy of the design team for the urban grid of the Cyprus University of Technology evolves as follows:

In the terminal phase of formation, the university will develop the major part of its functions in the urban campus of Pole 2, maintaining a part of its functions in the inner city campuses Pole 1A and Pole 1B. This three-parted development helps to establish a definite distinction of the university functions. According to this, in Pole 1A will remain the Central Administration, a major part of communal functions which the university shares with the community and two faculties. In Pole 1B one faculty will be installed, while in Pole 2 will be installed the rest three faculties along with the main body of the central university functions and facilities.

This strategy utilizes the biggest part of the inner city, exploiting the enhancement of its built dynamic – decadent at the moment -, while the creation of Pole 2 will ignite a wider functional reconstruction of the surrounding area. Furthermore, the density of the inner city’s buildings helps the formation of whole areas within the radius of influence of the university functions without other intervening functions. This fact guarantees the success of the project because it solves the main problem of the installation of new universities in existing urban grids, which is exactly the weakness of the university units to form zones of influence and, as a result, to obtain a recognizable identity.