Phase II: North Campus
Creating a Planning Framework
Concepts Phase Planning Principles
- Provide identity for academic precincts
- Create opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration
- Promote pedestrian circulation and alternative transportation
- Minimize the impact of vehicles on the landscape and neighborhoods
- Improve the aesthetic experience of the Spine and Lake LaSalle
- Cultivate the learning landscape with a variety of innovative academic spaces
Campus Precincts
- Future academic building locations “thicken” the Spine
- Non-academic Complementary Uses–a Hotel & Conference Center, a Museum, a University Club–can activate the Ellicott Spine and engage Lake LaSalle.
- Should new housing be located near existing housing, within the Academic Core, or both?
Campus Life
- Enliven the Spines with campus services
- The crossroads of the Spines and the Lake is the outdoor center of student life
- Where is the best location for a new Health Services center?
Pedestrian Circulation
- All academic buildings are within a ten minute walk from the Fulcrum
- Primary circulation on the Spines is supported by secondary paths to new quadrangles
- The Lake edge could be formalized as a route to the Ellicott Complex
Transportation
- The plan supports a vision for an extended public transit network to the North Campus, whether bus rapid transit, streetcar, or light rail.
- How else can we manage the increasing demand for single-occupant vehicle parking in a more sustainable way?
- Multiple approaches to campus help distribute traffic; each entry loop could have its own identity