Inner Loop Road Concept
Circulation and wayfinding:
- Create an inner loop roadway system, primarily for visitor, emergency, and ser-vice vehicles
- Ensure Inner Loop Road maintains visual contact with campus core
- Maintain all ingress/egress points
- Preserve Main Entrance, de-emphasize/remove signage at other entrances
Parking:
- Expand parking adjacent to the Inner Loop Road
- Establish Inner Loop Road as a parking street and create a grid-like network of parking streets throughout undergraduate housing village
Utilities and Infrastructure:
- Locate proposed academic buildings near existing utility tunnel
Context and Community:
- Explore potential connection to future development of Schott Property to northeast of campus
- Construct a campus visitor center proposed adjacent to the Cofrin Library
- Create a second visitor parking lot adjacent to Wood Hall/Rose Hall at main entry
Building Opportunities:
- Site academic building expansion for solar orientation and in proximity to utility tunnel
- Expand housing between existing housing village and academic core
- Accommodate footprint for Kress Events Center
Arboretum:
- Preserve and maintain location of the Cofrin Arboretum outside the perimeter roadways
- Plan a small permanent open space adjacent to the University Union
Campus Entry:
- Develop campus quadrangle between Library/Union/MAC Hall as campus entry feature
- Preserve main entrance, de-emphasize/remove signage at other entrances
Sustainability:
- Increase density of academic buildings within campus core to minimize distances for utility and other infrastructure connections
- Expand academic buildings by adding on to existing facilities and orienting new construction for solar access
- Create and protect open space, habitats, and site ecology
- Increase density of housing village increased with proposed dorms
- Create areas designated for runoff and storm water recharge
Pedestrian and Site Specific Studies:
- Make no changes or additions to existing concourse; take concourse off line when it becomes too expensive to maintain/repair
- Remove section of concourse between Cofrin Library and Student Services to open up quad to entrance road
- Create and enhance exterior pedestrian spaces and circulation systems
- Introduce concept of campus quad as a link between campus entrance and campus core
Inner Loop Road 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.
Inner Loop Road Concept
One of three conceptual alternatives, this drawing depicts orienting the campus by an altered circulation pattern which creates the Inner Loop Road for visitor, emergency and service vehicle. Arterial roadways intersect this primary through-campus circulation at t-intersections. Click image for a more detailed version.