Campus Planning

Our campus planning provides a roadmap for institutional decision-making. 

Campuses evolve over time, and our campus plans allow incremental growth and change to clearly reflect the long term mission. Over a period of ten or fifteen years, using a series of carefully planned projects, including new construction, renovation and demolition, a campus can be transformed. 

Our process begins by breaking down a campus into precincts and focusing on the optimum potential of each precinct. Our strength is developing visions for science and engineering precincts. This is usually half the academic space on campus. First we assess the people and the programs. Looking ahead 20 years, how much space is needed? What kind of space is needed? And what adjacencies are needed? Next we assess the buildings and the site. We develop the maximum desirable capacity of each precinct, measured in people, activity and building area. How much additional space is available? 

Lastly we look at the infrastructure, and how to make it unobtrusive: the engineering loads, the service needs, and the parking, loading and vehicular traffic. Many campuses evolve around available infrastructure, at the expense of program priorities. We like to flip this model, and give clients the ability to make campus decisions that are based on program priorities, not infrastructure. 

Bringing these three together – the people, the building, and the infrastructure – we look for a series of high quality pedestrian spaces, both indoors and outdoors, to move people through the campus. The result is increased density, a strong sense of community and a unique identity. The resulting campus is robust, capable of growth and change, and at the same time unobtrusive and easy to maintain.