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Funding ebbs and flows Colleges and universities are experiencing unpredictable fluctuations in capital funding, forcing institutions to make tough fiscal decisions. Top tier universities receive unpredictable donor funding which causes allocation issues. Funding for public institutions continues on a downward trend. In recent years, little to no appropriations are available for capital projects at public schools. No matter the fiscal challenge or opportunity, each institution must responsibly distribute available funds.
The Ohio State University One Ohio State Framework Plan Columbus, Ohio
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Innovative design increases opportunities for collaboration Escalating programmatic, faculty, and student needs combined with scarce funding and increased scrutiny demands a heightened level of innovation and performance from institutions and their design teams. Innovating within tight cost and schedule deadlines is more than expected—it is essential.
The Ohio State University Park-Stradley Hall Columbus, Ohio
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Efficiency is imperative Institutions recognize the need to better manage their space, finances, and staff. These factors—and their unpredictability—demand new approaches to planning and facility management. Strategic planning, inventory evaluation, and capital improvement construction programs are no longer static documents. They are fluid, adaptable, modular, and fiscally responsive.
Bristol Community College Technology & Learning Center Fall River, Massachusetts
The Ohio State University One Ohio State Framework Plan Columbus, Ohio
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The One Ohio State Framework Plan redefines campus master planning. As OSU faces increasingly complex challenges—a sustainability imperative, reduced access to capital, an aging physical plant, and a vision centered on increased collaboration— the framework ensures that mission drives development of the physical environment. The plan establishes guiding principles, supports a long-term vision for the campus, defines projects that propel the university toward this vision, and utilizes an innovative decision support system to help ensure that planning integrates academic, strategic, financial, and physical considerations across the university. ho m e
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Prioritizer The Prioritizer ranks potential projects and scenarios depending on their contribution to stated goals. Each project is assigned a score for each goal and goals can be weighed by importance. As users adjust importance of goals, projects and scenarios automatically reshuffle to reflect new priority ranking.
Visualizer The creation of interactive graphic software enables data-driven decision-making. This new workflow creates projects that meet multiple goals while maximizing the return or limited capital. The tools turn data into information by providing intuitive filters and the ability to sort and present facts in multiple ways.
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The Ohio State University Framework Plan
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The Ohio State University Park-Stradley Hall Columbus, Ohio
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The Ohio State University Park-Stradley Hall
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The Ohio State University Park-Stradley Hall
Our work at Ohio State involved careful analysis of cost implications associated with renovation versus new construction for their housing inventory. This study resulted in the development of a comprehensive scope of needs for housing across the university. By integrating the financial analysis with design expertise, we recommended against the initial project under consideration and instead suggested the university funnel resources to renovation of and addition to their South High Rise towers. The scheme yielded new construction at costs substantially below market levels. Sasaki’s unique design strategy preserves existing structures while providing more beds, entry lobbies, social areas, study spaces, and newlydefined courtyards. Renovation of four 1950s era buildings increases natural daylighting and generates dynamic ground-level social spaces. ho m e
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Bristol Community College Technology and Learning Center Fall River, Massachusetts
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Bristol’s Technology and Learning Center is a shared resource occupied by multiple disciplines within two academic divisions. It represents the translation of basic science to its application in the health professions. Learning and teaching spaces are organized around a lobby atrium that is envisioned as a technology-rich information commons meant to invite a broader set of users to the building as a place to study and learn in informal ways. These spaces create much-needed swing space that facilitates the repurposing and modernization of existing buildings. ho m e
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Bristol Community College Technology and Learning Center
Everything is connected
No campus is an island
More than ever before, institutions realize their success is connected directly to the vitality and livability of their host community. Institutions that engage with their community to implement quality of life and economic improvements greatly benefit from the effects. Planners need to build connections beyond the programmatic and physical campus. A vibrant plan with strong opportunities for interaction comes from incorporating the community and its stakeholders in the design process.
One way for colleges and universities to continue moving forward in today’s challenging economy and complex political environment is to forge more public-private and intra-agency partnerships. These partnerships advance common institutional, community, and state goals in a cost-effective manner. Integrating community into the planning process leads to aligned priorities and beneficial strategic alliances.
University of Pennsylvania Penn Connects Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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vermont Law School Framework Plan South Royalton, Vermont
Civic engagement improves higher education Most institutional missions emphasize community engagement to foster students’ understanding of the importance of contributing to society. Shared facilities are a growing institutional focus. Integrating community with campus planning efforts creates greater synergies and economies, resulting in increased civic engagement.
Portland State University Framework Plan Portland, Oregon
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University of Akron Framework Plan Akron, Ohio
University of Pennsylvania Penn Connects
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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University of Pennsylvania Penn Connects
Penn Connects: A Vision for the Future sets out an exciting blueprint for the University of Pennsylvania campus. The plan illustrates a long-term framework for the enhancement of the established campus and the transformation of key redevelopment sites and expansion areas. A primary goal of the plan is to establish stronger connections, not only within the campus, but to the surrounding community context as well. Civic and open space, circulation linkages, land use, and development zones are all devised to help meet this goal. The Bridges of Connectivity, for example, link the east campus to Center City across the Schuylkill River.
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Vermont Law School Framework Plan
South Royalton, Vermont
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Vermont Law School has the top environmental law program in the country, yet the school’s academic commitment to sustainability is not yet visible on campus. The framework plan proposes investment in the school should be tied to investment in the Village of South Royalton. In doing so, the plan offers a unique vision of sustainability, one that ties the success and prospects of the campus to the well-being of the surrounding New England village. The campus is the village and the village is the campus. Together, with a unified vision for growth and development, both can flourish. ho m e
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Portland State University District Framework Plan Portland, Oregon
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Portland State University District Framework Plan
Portland State University and the city of Portland have a uniquely collaborative relationship—the city’s mayor and the university’s president work together to produce mutually beneficial results. Building on the relationship between the city and PSU, Sasaki’s plan proposes a development strategy that leverages these partnerships in an integrated, mixed-use manner to guide the university’s future growth within the University District. Uses are not only mixed, but shared. Transparency permeates the environment, making the academic and social life of the university visible to all.
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University of Akron Framework Plan akron, Ohio
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Following Sasaki’s 1999 campus development guide, Akron transformed its campus from a commuter school to a university with a significant sense of place and community. Building upon this success, Akron once again solicited Sasaki to conceptualize a framework for future development in partnership with its neighbors. We examined the growing student population and its impact on economic development in the context of increased fiscal challenges. The plan considers a range of partnerships, including the City of Akron, Akron General Medical Center, and the Greater Akron Chamber, that support the university’s academic mission. ho m e
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Renovate or replace? Many aging buildings cannot support their current mission and curriculum—let alone future programs—without significant renovation or replacement. In many instances it is not the most historic buildings on campus that present the greatest challenges, but rather buildings constructed in the 1950s through the 1980s. Facilities of this era have limited flexibility for reuse and antiquated building utility systems. Aging facilities present a challenge in meeting the growing need for technologically sophisticated spaces and environments that support new instructional and research programs. In some cases (particularly in the sciences) existing buildings cannot viably adapt to meet new program requirements, but can be successfully repurposed for other uses.
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A Meaningful Sense of Ignoring deferred Repurpose maintenance As educational initiatives require more flexible and is Expensive adaptable space, creative design solutions enable building and facility renewal to meet this need. Older buildings with well-structured, modular floor plans serve new uses through creative repurposing. Renewal and renovation is both an economic advantage and truly sustainable approach to development.
In the rush to create new facilities for expanding needs over the past 25 years, many existing buildings went seriously neglected. Funding for maintenance is difficult to acquire because projects involving physical plant and equipment replacements are not attractive to donors. Some public institutions and their legislatures understand the growing need and designate separate funding exclusively for deferred maintenance and upgrades. Planning must take these fiscal fluctuations into account and respond to them in a flexible yet responsible manner. Regeneration reduces deferred maintenance backlog as buildings are repurposed and upgraded.
bates College Alumni Walk Lewiston, Maine
Sinclair Community College Campus Master Plan Dayton, Ohio
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Drexel University Daskalakis Athletic Center
The Daskalakis Athletic Center is an integrated sports facility that forms a distinctive center for collegiate and community activity along Philadelphia’s Market Street. The project reenergizes the old gymnasium by renovating its uses and expanding its footprint with an annexed recreation center. The renewed complex opens the previously introverted gymnasium structure to university and city surroundings, reinforcing Drexel’s urban façade along Market Street. The recreation center engages the street by offering several points of public access and transparency that provides views of the activity within. The DAC is now an activity hub for campus groups and student clubs, as well as a major destination for diverse community programs in West Philadelphia. ho m e
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As both the geographic center and the heart of activity at Bates College, Alumni Walk is an important landscape element that dramatically improves the quality of the campus core and strengthens connections to the dining commons. It transforms a former street and parking lot into a pedestrian landscape with a strong identity, distinguished by a dense grove of birch trees and long cube-like illuminated benches that brighten pedestrian paths in evening.
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Sinclair Community College Campus Master Plan Dayton, Ohio
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The guiding mission at Sinclair is to prepare today’s workforce to meet the needs of a rapidly changing global economy. The master plan provides guidelines for campus improvements that support the college’s academic mission and strategic vision. Strategies to improve formal and informal learning environments focus on enhancing collaborative space as an extension of the classroom. Sasaki studied interventions that better align space with modern pedagogy and student life, suggesting improved departmental adjacencies and renovation of existing buildings. Identifying strategies for better connection to downtown Dayton, new facilities have community-oriented functions and new campus gateways that improve way-finding. ho m e
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New models for learning strike a pose
Space: The Educational Frontier
Make way for information technology
The changing nature of our learning environments requires a multiplicity of workspaces indoors and out and an increased awareness of social networks. These needs and behaviors demand an agile response. They reshape the design of programs, facilities, and necessary resource allocations while fostering relationships among learners, faculty, and mentors.
Integrated, cross-disciplinary initiatives and curriculum are a central consideration in the evolution of educational programs. Spaces that encourage interdisciplinary work, promote cross-fertilization of varied interests, and enhance academic perspectives address emerging ideas in an evolving environment. The move toward greater integration of theory and practice is transforming many academic environments, drawing the student out of the classroom to engage in experience-based learning opportunities.
Flexible provision and delivery of information technology is a critical design consideration for all learning communities. Developments in economic, social, and technological environments lead to far-reaching changes in the way educational institutions operate. In particular, advances in IT assist the emergence of contemporary organizational forms, work practices, and training methods. As a result, teaching and learning methods are undergoing dynamic transformations.
Singapore University of Technology and Design Master Plan Singapore
University of California, Davis Graduate School of Management Davis, California
University of Wisconsin, Madison School of Human Ecology Madison, Wisconsin
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Singapore University of Technology and Design Master Plan Singapore
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Singapore University of Technology and Design Master Plan
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Singapore University of Technology and Design Master Plan
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Singapore University of Technology and Design Master Plan
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Singapore University of Technology and Design Master Plan
University of California, Davis Graduate School of Management Davis, California
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This LEEDŽ Platinum project at UC Davis reflects the school’s commitment to interdisciplinary integration between business and the arts. It features a three-story structure for classrooms and offices and a two-story conference center with a restaurant, ballroom, office space, and meeting rooms. A pedestrian bridge frames the gateway to a shared courtyard that connects the two structures. The innovative building includes classrooms designed for interactive learning, expanded space for extracurricular activities, a centralized student affairs and career services center, and an outdoor garden. for informal gatherings and special events. ho m e
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University of Wisconsin, Madison School of Human Ecology Madison, Wisconsin
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University of Wisconsin School of Human Ecology
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University of Wisconsin School of Human Ecology
At the University of Wisconsin, Madison, School of Human Ecology Sasaki expanded the college’s facilities to create innovative learning and research spaces that respond to the university’s vision of creating an environment that supports and enhances education, research, scholarship, and outreach. Sasaki provided programming and design services for an addition to and renovation of SoHE’s historic building. The two buildings act in tandem, creating a single facility that enhances the values and visibility of the school. The new facility includes classrooms, studios, and flexible research spaces for the multidisciplinary programs of Design Studies, Consumer Science, Human Development and Family Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies.
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University of Wisconsin School of Human Ecology
Change is the only constant
The modern building OFFERS ALTERNATIVES
Change is inevitable. The evolution of technology, communication systems, learning, pedagogy, demographics, culture, and modalities of the student body demand restructured curriculums as well as new academic and research programs. Change revises the requirements of academic support spaces, continually challenges the building infrastructure of campuses, and prompts the need for the adaptability of environments.
A new breed of hybrid structures builds in flexibility by developing container-type spaces that users can modify according to their needs. Incubator spaces, space boundaries, room settings, furniture configurations, and teaching and media support adapt to changing programming demands, and are often controlled or scheduled by end users via portable devices. Careful integration of building systems and infrastructure enables long-term adaptability and creates alternative spaces and program configurations. Systems distribution, space modularity, and intelligent building controls are key contributing factors in the planning of flexible environments.
Universidad Del Istmo Master Plan Santa Isabel, Guatemala
Morgan State University Earl S. Richardson Library Baltimore, Maryland
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Adaptability guides development decisions Successful campus plans map out growth and development scenarios that contemplate the adaptability of building and site structures. Aligning enrollment projections, faculty and staff growth, availability of funding, and operational resources with building and open space inventories is vital to developing campus environments. A phasing plan allows planners, designers, and stakeholders to assess a campus’s structure, consider near- and long-term implementation strategies, and ultimately define a campus’s future.
University of Massachusetts Venture Development Center Boston, Massachusetts
Universidad Del Istmo Master Plan
Santa Isabel, Guatemala
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The first phase of master plan implementation at Universidad del Istmo consolidates the school’s operations, presently dispersed throughout Guatemala City, into a new campus setting in the rural area of Santa Isabel. Until academic department complexes are built, academic programs and support areas are brought together in three flexible buildings. The first buildings are modeled after incubator spaces, designed with high-load, large-bay modular structural systems capable of supporting many spatial configurations and alternative program demands, as well as exposed, modular MEP systems capable of adapting to various use requirements.
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Morgan State University Earl S. Richardson Library Baltimore, Maryland
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The Richardson Library is inherently flexible. The building and its systems are capable of accommodating change in library services and pedagogical evolution. A system of 12-foot by 27-foot modules is the basis for the entire interior layout. These modules match the shelving units and allow easy conversion from classrooms to seminar rooms, from open group study spaces to stack space, and back again as needed. The building also features spaces that accommodate the diverse ways in which Morgan students study— areas for those who prefer private study and group areas for conversation and collaboration. ho m e
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University of Massachusetts Venture Development Center Boston, Massachusetts
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University of Massachusetts Venture Development Center
Diverse student populations CREATE a diverse campus
Our future depends on access and affordability
Future generations of college students will be more racially diverse as projections indicate a tripling of the number of Latinos and Asians in the United States over the next 40 years. In addition, a growing international student population on college and university campuses continues to trend upwards. With these diverse population groups comes the potential for different learning styles, student support needs, and access requirements. Increased student diversity on campus increases the need to understand how physical space will impact learning and development for future students.
Current and future economic implications paired with changing student demographics will influence future generations’ ability to access a college education. The challenge ahead is to provide higher education for varied constituencies. Determining location, program, and design facilities that improve access and affordability means looking beyond the traditional definition of a campus.
Lorain County Community College iLoft Classroom Building Elyria, Ohio
Austin Community College District Facilities Master Plan Austin, Texas
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Stay curious The career era is over. Employees no longer find one job and stick to it. Today’s workforce seeks to challenge itself with new skillsets, maintaining a competitive edge. This makes continuing education programs more valuable than ever. An overwhelming majority of adults in the U.S. agree that degree completion, advanced degrees, and continuing education make a candidate more attractive to potential employers.
University of San Francisco Master Plan San Francisco, California
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Lorain County Community College iLoft Classroom Building Elyria, Ohio
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Lorain County Community College iLoft Classroom Building
According to the Community College Survey of Student Engagement, “Personal interaction with faculty members strengthens students’ connections to the college and helps them focus on their academic progress.” Taking this into account, Sasaki surveyed the latest innovations in instructional spaces and worked with LCCC to examine efficient and effective ways for students and faculty to interact. The team then collaborated with faculty and administrators to determine the types of spaces that best support teaching and learning. The resulting design arranges classrooms along both sides of the building, creating two flexible bars. The dividing walls easily relocate, enabling the college to resize classrooms as needed. ho m e
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Lorain County Community College iLoft Classroom Building
Austin Community College District Facilities Master Plan Austin, Texas
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Improved education levels are vital to a successful economy. This is especially critical in Texas where a Hispanic population majority is imminent. Where to grow existing campuses and locate new ones in relation to emerging demographic trends was a challenge for ACC. Sasaki combined skills in demographic analysis and campus planning to provide a plan for growth that addresses the state’s “Closing the Gaps� initiative. Sasaki analyzed existing market penetration in service areas to verify how much improvement in recruitment and retention is necessary to achieve state goals by 2025. Comparing population trends with campus capacity and space use on each existing campus, the team determined optimal locations for future campuses. Austin Community College District Facilities Master Plan
University of San Francisco Master Plan
San Francisco, California
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University of San Francisco Master Plan
Sustainability? Coming right up
Measure twice, cut carbon
After years of concentrating only on energy reduction, campuses now adopt broad sustainability performance measures. With AASHE STARS, for example, the focus shifts to emphasize resource conservation. Wideranging performance goals at the beginning of facility programming and design combined with a more holistic approach to sustainability on campus leads to optimized building performance.
Reinforcing sustainability planning with measured results is a means of determining an initiative’s success. Institutions ask planners and designers to identify the return on investment of sustainability initiatives, not only for economic impact, but also for the entire higher education enterprise. This requires increased use of metrics and performance measurements in early planning and design stages to set a baseline and establish measurable targets for expected results.
University of Maine Master Plan Orono, Maine
University of Texas at Austin Master Plan Austin, Texas
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We have the tOOLS Governing boards and state legislatures demand business models that maximize use of campus resources to meet strategic goals. To be sustainable, planning and design must engage the entire campus to link resources such as renewable energy, physical plant, finance, academic programs, and budget into an overall institutional strategy. Advanced technology tools gather, analyze, and integrate data in support of an ongoing planning process with integrated decision-making.
University System of Georgia Space Utilization Study Various Locations, Georgia
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University of Maine Master Plan Orono, Maine
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UMaine is transitioning toward climate neutrality. Its master plan promotes sustainability at the broadest level, protecting architectural and landscape resources, improving campus life, and providing a comprehensive vision for the future. The plan’s framework addresses the performance of the master plan relative to three indicators: natural systems and habitats, water resources, and energy and emissions. Sasaki recommended strategies for reducing carbon emissions and energy consumption in existing buildings, efficiently utilizing existing space, setting energy utilization targets, identifying opportunities for renewable energy sources, and orienting proposed buildings for optimal solar access. ho m e
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University of Texas at Austin Master Plan Austin, Texas
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University of Texas at Austin Master Plan
How does one of the largest public universities in the nation advance its trajectory to preeminence in the face of increased financial constraints? Sasaki’s master plan for UT Austin explores this question from multiple perspectives: land use, space use, parking and circulation, historic preservation of buildings and landscape, and growth management. A holistic approach to academic synergies and the use of resources is essential to competitiveness. All aspects of the plan are integrated in a comprehensive approach to sustainability, touching all three considerations of the triple-bottom-line: social, environmental, and financial. ho m e
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University System of Georgia Space Utilization Study Various Location, Georgia
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Many Georgia institutions function well with far less space in some categories than traditional guidelines recommend. Different consultants report different estimates of needs for institutions with similar missions, enrollments, and program mix. In response, Sasaki collaborated with USG to formulate a new methodology for measuring the utilization of space to guide space management and capital allocation decisions for institutions and the system as a whole. The approach groups spaces with similar functions into buckets to minimize the effects of miscategorization and provide atomic units for new utilization metrics, greatly reducing the number of required measurements and providing information reflective of modern use. ho m e
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Working in context Trends in the development of higher education are not ubiquitous. Instead, they are understood in the unique context of varying regional realities and differing states of development. The conceptualization, positioning, and development of new universities in emerging nations is influenced by international benchmarks as well as issues like exponential demographic growth, urbanization, and infrastructure upgrades.
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The connections make A Clean Slate The planning, design, and implementation of new the campus universities bring the opportunity to revisit archetypical The success of modern academic programs in international contexts lies with a faculty that can implement a new university’s teaching program. This process includes growing, repatriating, and importing academic talents to execute academic mission. Alliances between growing industries and universities help customize academic curricula, tailoring research programs to deploy a graduating workforce with direct impact on regional and national market realities. Affiliations and partnerships between established, transnational institutions and emerging universities benefit academic plans, allow for shared resources, and offer more research, teaching, and scholarship opportunities.
constructs, from the creation of the ideal classroom to the whole campus as a model learning environment. Free from the constraints set by historic processes of development and richly informed by the mission and culture of their institutions, brand new campuses offer the chance to develop true laboratories for learning and teaching closely aligned with operational, pedagogic, and social programs. Each campus aspect is customized to the new university’s developing identity.
University of Balamand Mother Mary Dormitory Building Tripoli, Lebanon
National University of Singapore Student and Residential Life Master Plan Singapore
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Universidad de Los Andes site links the city grid of Santiago de Chile to the foothills of the Andes. Since its founding in 1989, the university has become an educational, communal, spiritual, and cultural focus for its city. The university seeks to expand its resources as a response to the growing demand for excellence in academic programs at the college and university level in and around Chile’s capital. Sasaki’s master plan guides the school’s growth over the next 25 years, developing the campus into a cohesive whole, following a model of organic growth around a dense campus core. ho m e
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University of Balamand Mother Mary Dormitory Building Tripoli, Lebanon
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The Mother Mary residence hall is situated along a steep rock plateau sprinkled with young oak trees. Interconnected by a common building podium, the complex is a series of optimally oriented, self-contained dwelling towers that terrace along the site slope. Interior building platforms are coordinated with the exterior, creating terraces, courtyards, and roof gardens. This provides a sequence of spaces where program and landscape spiral around the topography. Landscape and building materials are sourced from the site. Local limestone is the predominant material and is featured in the preserved site’s rock outcroppings, the dry-laid stone garden walls, the coarsely textured building retaining walls, and the smooth veneer of the higher building envelope. ho m e
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National University of Singapore Student and Residential Life Master Plan Singapore
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Global Perspective
National University of Singapore Student Life Master Plan
The National University of Singapore Student and Residential Life Master Plan envisions a sustainable, vibrant campus that facilitates a living-learning experience and encourages intellectual community exchange. Green space at the heart of the campus—Kent Common—and several satellite hubs encourage community in different areas of the campus. Hubs are connected to the green through a coalescing landscape environment and well-defined pedestrian connections. Kent Common, the satellite hubs, and the connecting landscape will result in an integrated, dynamic campus.
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National University of Singapore Student Life Master Plan
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