Master Plan > Recommendations and Implementation Strategies > Primary Planning Issues
Building Opportunities
Recommendations:
- Site academic buildings within the campus core
- Connect buildings to concourse whenever possible
- Create views from concourse to exterior environment
- Incorporate courtyards and gathering spaces
- Incorporate lantern-like features on exterior of building for pedestrian wayfinding
- Site housing outside of the campus core in the campus midzone
- Preserve land for potential non-traditional/married student housing pod or village
- Conduct study to examine the useful life of existing on-campus housing stock
- Construct undergraduate housing expansion within the existing student housing village
- Create the opportunity for private development or public/private joint venture of a service/retail amenity located in proximity to existing housing village
Implementation:
- Gather and assess data on existing housing stock
- Coordinate construction of new housing structures with University Village Housing Inc., (UVHI)
- Construct new academic buildings as separate projects
- Gather site-specific data on building sites
- Evaluate sites against recommendations in Master Plan
- Include budget line items for building support facilities such as utilities, roadway, and parking improvements
Winter Garden at MAC Hall
This courtyard serves as a mod-el of how to visually connect interior and exterior spaces. The Garden seems to extend right out of the building through the use of elements like a pergola structure and large windows.