1.1 general site analysis 1.2 thesis 1.3 guiding principles PROCESS + METHODOLOGY

LAND 702 Senior Landscape Architecture Studio Dr. Bev Sandalack

The University of Calgary Innovation Quarter

The project site for this final studio in the Master of Landscape Architecture Program is the University of Calgary Innovation Quarter (UIQ), formerly known as the Research Park.

The UIQ includes 12 buildings housing various research organizations that are situated within extensive open space, parking lots and roads. It is 76 acres / 31 hectares located just north of the main University of Calgary campus across 32nd Avenue NW. Although adjacent to the main campus, the newly developed University District, and the Brentwood LRT station and higher density node, the UIQ is somewhat isolated, but with much potential to be a more connected and vibrant place, especially given the changing demographics and dynamics of the adjacent areas as well as the new vision for the UIQ expressed by the University of Calgary. The site is currently under-utilized and has much capacity for growth, change and densification.

In November of 2020, the University of Calgary Properties Group (UCPG), formerly known as West Campus Development Corporation, took on the management and redevelopment of the project. The UCPG will be overseeing the master planning of the UIQ, and this studio had the opportunity to collaborate and to consider the site in terms of the landscape and public realm. The studio worked with the UCPG to understand their overall vision for the UIQ, and to find ways to propose landscape-based innovations and approaches. Thank you to James Robertson, UCPG President and CEO, and Travis Oberg, UCPG Director of Design, for the support and feedback over the semester.

As a studio group, we conducted a collective site and context analysis to understand the conditions and opportunities, and each student then developed a research-based project derived from the analysis. These projects are presented here.

Emma Brodie: LandIQ: University of Calgary Innovation Quarter Master Plan Ava Xinyu Chen: The Public Realm and Multi-Modal Circulation System Alfred Gomez: 1+1 = 3. Collaborative Landscapes in the UIQ Heather Hilson: Climate-Adaptive Landscape Types for the University Innovation Quarter Emily Kaing: Lost > Found. A Conceptual Framework for the UIQ Weijian Li: Stormwater Management Chang Liu: A Walkable UIQ Raiyan Ul Momin: Building + Landscape Interface Echo Ye Tian: Research-scape. Reflect the Character, Value and Spirit of Research through Landscape Kailin Xie: Green Roofs in UIQ

April 2021 Dr. Beverly A. Sandalack