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Campus Entry
The approach to any campus creates a lasting first impression, a feeling of welcome or confusion that is critical for potential students who often make a decision about an institution within minutes of their arrival. A positive sense of arrival is missing on the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus.
Recommendations that emerged from the master planning process suggest UW-Green Bay has an opportunity to develop an entry sequence and ar-rival point that welcomes users--whether visitors to campus, prospective students, or returning alumni. The Plan explores the site-scale design of an entry concept that includes a traditional campus quad and a student gathering area.
Recommendations:
- Sustain the Main Entry Drive as primary visitor access point to campus
- Reconfigure the entry sequence to campus core from Inner Loop Road
- Provide parking for visitors adjacent to the new entry to serve facilities such as the Cofrin Library, Student Services, and University Union
- Remove section of concourse that connects Cofrin Library to Student Services; re-establish via loggia nearby
- Connect campus entry to the campus quad
- Create a parking plaza between Weidner Center and Studio Arts
- Form a strong, direct link between the Studio and Performing Arts Buildings and the Weidner Center
- Include accessible parking stalls on the Student Services side of the parking plaza adjacent to walkways
- Use pavement colors, materials, and textures to denote circulation patterns
- Create a visually vibrant, functional space
Implementation:
- Remove concourse link between Cofrin Library and Student Services Building
- Create parking immediately adjacent to the Weidner Center to serve visitors during normal hours of operation and valet parking during Weidner Center events
- Create the Weidner Center parking plaza as part of a separate project or when roadway comes on-line for re-paving
Campus Entry
The conceptual design of a new entry is the product of numerous conversations about the welcoming potential of campus. The entry beckons as a destination point to visitors and prospective students, creates close-by accessible parking, and connects the entry to the heart of the academic core through a campus quad. The campus entry design also allows for physical expansion of the University Union and connection to existing utilities and infrastructure.
Campus Entry Detail
The campus entry links the Weidner Center and Studio Arts through a plaza and provides an additional 187 parking spaces at the entrance to campus.