Completed Circle Concept
Circulation and wayfinding:
- Construct additional segments of roadway to complete Circle Drive
- Emphasize Main Entrance and de-emphasized or close Nicolet Entrance
Parking:
- Expand parking along the perimeter of campus inside Circle Drive
- Incorporate parking streets into housing village access roads
- Develop a mechanism for establishing a hierarchy of streets and a network of roadways
- Use as additional fl ex parking, like the opportunistic spots one finds adjacent to urban campuses
- Concentrate location of parking streets in the student housing village
- Serve dual purpose by expand parking without adding parking lots and increasing safety as parking is closer to dorms, more visible from buildings, and more immediately accessible to students
- Provide overflow parking for events on or near access roads to major event destinations like the Weidner Center and Kress Events Center
Utilities and Infrastructure:
- Locate proposed academic buildings near existing utility tunnel
Context and Community:
- Create second visitor parking lot adjacent to Wood Hall/Rose Hall at main entry
- Remove signage at Nicolet Entrance to aid visitor wayfinding
- Maintain access to arboretum directly from Nicolet Drive
Building Opportunities:
- Expand housing in southwest corner of campus to create a second residential village
- Site academic building expansion for ease of connection to concourse and utility tunnel
- Accommodate footprint for Kress Events Center
Arboretum:
- Preserve and maintain the location of the Cofrin Arboretum outside of the Circle Drive
Campus Entry:
- Place architectural “welcoming beacons” on Cofrin Library and Student Services building at entrance
- Remove signage to campus at Nicolet Entrance to aid visitor wayfinding from Green Bay to campus
Sustainability:
- Increase density of academic buildings increased within campus core to minimizes distances for utility and other infrastructure connections
- Create and protect open space, habitats, and site ecology
- Site proposed academic buildings sited for optimal solar orientation and massing
- Create areas designated for runoff and storm water recharge
Pedestrian and Site Specific Studies:
- Expand concourse to new academic buildings and enhance existing con-course connections
- Maintain and expand exterior circulation routes to accommodate building expansions
Completed Circle Template
The individual layers of circulation, buildings and parking, and other campus features of this particular alternative are added to the base aerial photograph and build upon each other.
Completed Circle Concept
One of three conceptual alternatives, this drawing depicts orienting the campus by an altered circulation pattern that essentially completes the circle formed around the campus by South/East/North Campus Drive. Click image to enlarge.