University of Saskatchewan CAMPUS MASTER PLAN January 31
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January 31, 2018
DIALOG | ECS | DA WATT
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Project Initiation + Reconnaissance
Preliminary Concept Development + Campus Space Plan
Draft Campus Master Plan
Final Campus Master Plan
May - June(2 months)
July - October (4 months)
October – January (4 months)
February – April (3 months)
Preliminary Concept Plan + Space Planning
Draft Report
Refine & Finalize Master Plan
Background Document and Policy Review • Existing Conditions + Analysis & Constraints
• Consultant Team Workshop • Building + Space Needs Assessment
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Plan Frameworks Concept Plan Refinement • Internal Review •
• Phasing & Implementation • Casting Analysis • Final Revisions
Project Client Team Working Groups Oversight Committee
Project Kick-off
Stakeholder Interviews
Working Groups Workshop #1
Pop-up Open Houses
May Existing Conditions Opportunities + Constraints summary
June Campus Vision & Design Principles
Summer Months Preliminary Concept Plan
Stakeholder Workshop #1
Workshop #2
Indigenous Stakeholder Group Event #1
Indigenous Peoples Engagement
Public Open House #1
Public Open House #2
Sept - Oct Campus Space Plan Report
Oct - Dec
U of S Governing Bodies Final Presentation
January
Feb - Mar
April
Draft Master Plan & Report
Phasing & Implementation Strategy
Final Master Plan
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what we’ve HEARD Emerging Themes • Reflect the recurring ideas, aspirations, and objectives for the campus, expressed by participants during the stakeholder engagement events
emerging THEMES: A Quality Environment Building Campus Identity Providing Housing Options Respect for Heritage Showcasing Sustainability Creating Functioning Open Spaces Enhancement of the Natural Environment Quality Built Form Efficient and Enhanced Space Utilization
emerging THEMES: Health, Vibrancy, & Community Supporting Health and Wellbeing Animating the Campus Indigenization of the Campus Connecting with Community Supporting Placemaking
emerging THEMES: Mobility Improving Campus Wayfinding Addressing Surface Parking Connectivity – Accessing the Campus Internally and Externally Encouraging Alternative Transportation Modes
emerging THEMES: Bringing the Thinking Together A Cohesive Campus – Enhancing Precinct Synergies and Uses Build on Current Initiatives and Ongoing Engagement
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Campus Master Plan VISION: The Vision for the University of Saskatchewan begins with “Tawaw�, a community oriented place that is always open, inviting, and inclusive to all. The Vision integrates history, culture, community, education, with place...the open spaces, the river, the streets, the agricultural lands, and the built form, to create a unique and beautiful campus. The Campus will be a safe, sustainable, compact, and complete environment that is welcoming and accessible. It will accommodate a diverse range of educational, pedagogical, social, physical, and cultural needs. It will be a walkable, permeable and connected place, bridging campus and community through the enhancements of the public realm, reflecting coordinated and collaborative efforts with the City of Saskatoon.
Campus Master Plan VISION: The Campus will showcase quality, leadership, sustainability, and resilience in all aspects of design, with quality learning and academic spaces, signature entryways, pedestrian and cyclist connections, public realm animation, seasonal activity, transit mobility and linkages, and the preservation of cherished built form, agricultural character and the natural environment. The university’s identity will be built on creating a vibrant, healthy, active, year-round campus and destination, with unique experiences for both the university and the City of Saskatoon for decades to come.
Planning PRINCIPLES
Tawaw • Doors always open! • An inclusive and welcoming place for the University community, the surrounding community and the city as a whole.
Create a Complete Community • Consider the mix of campus uses and functions, the users, and the types of buildings and public spaces to foster diversity, integration, and community building.
Indigenize the Campus • Commitment to campus Indigenization reflected in design and programming of the physical campus.
Planning PRINCIPLES
Support Health and Wellbeing • of the university community and surrounding community as a recreational destination, and food and amenity resource.
Create a Campus for Learning and Research • Build identity as a learning and research environment. • Focus on quality and innovative teaching, pedagogical educational opportunities, in the context of a quality environment.
Create a Sustainable and Resilient Campus • Commit to sustainable, environmental, social, educational, and economic growth. • The public realm and built environment should provide opportunities for outstanding contributions to sustainability, research, and innovation.
Planning PRINCIPLES
Create a Compact, Connected and Accessible Campus • Connect to the city and the community through multiple active transportation methods such as walking, cycling and transit. • Create a clear hierarchy of streets and wayfinding strategies that provides convenient access and an ease of movement to and from campus, and on campus in all seasons.
Consider Placemaking – Enhance Precinct Synergies and Uses • Create a safe, vibrant, animated place throughout with unique (precinct) destinations and public spaces.
Planning PRINCIPLES
Enhance Campus Identity • Build identity on education, community, heritage, and place, strengthened through integrated, collaborative, and synergistic relationships with University, City and community.
Create a Quality Built Environment • New buildings should reflect quality, timelessness and sustainability, and the University’s heritage identity and character of place should be preserved.
Planning PRINCIPLES
Preserve the Natural Landscape and Create a Diverse Open Space Network • Create a diversity of beautiful, innovative, flexible, inspiring and welcoming open spaces. • Preserve the natural heritage landscape, integrated with new spaces and green streets to meet a variety of campus and community needs.
Develop a Parking Strategy and Encourage Alternative Transportation • Create a parking strategy that will reduce parking demand on campus, reduce the surface parking footprint, maximize mobility options, and minimize environmental harm to the campus.
Planning PRINCIPLES
Create Flexible, Efficient, and Adaptive Learning Spaces • Design to maximize both interior and exterior space utilization and efficiency. • Be adaptive to accommodate a variety of changes to seasonal, community, educational, economical, and environmental needs.
Build on Current Initiatives and Ongoing Engagement • “Nothing About Us Without Us” is the new standard of business. Commit to ongoing engagement. • Create “a framework for consultation and collaboration” including engagement with a variety of groups, including Campus Elders, the City, and other key stakeholders.
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CONCEPT PLAN Highlights • Connectivity – permeability, movement and walkability emphasizing a human scale • Places defined and shaped by open spaces, streets, pathways, trails, and the landscape • Buildings front onto spaces and connections • Relationships to the river valley and water are restored
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BIG MOVES Reimagine Campus Drive • Celebrate the Drive as a key part of the Campus’ history • Shift the function from street to place - a pedestrian oriented place that is walkable and accommodates multiple modes of transportation • Re-establish historic building setbacks and landscape forecourts • Enhance the streetscaping so that it is a visibly unique place and experience
BIG MOVES Create two new road access loops • Build on the connectivity of the heritage loop to access all areas of the campus – North Campus, Innovation Place, and the College Quarter
BIG MOVES Create a fine-grained street network of new streets • Increases connectivity and supports walkability • Improves visual and physical wayfinding • Provides options for multiple modes of movement • Increases campus permeability
concept design: BIG MOVES Create a hierarchy of external gateways •
Improve wayfinding and accessibility
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Support a stronger campus identity and its face to the community
concept design: BIG MOVES Enhance the existing significant open spaces and identify new open spaces •
New destination open spaces throughout the campus – new hubs of active and passive activity
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Renew the pattern of buildings framing and defining open spaces – internal courtyards, quads, corridors
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Expand and enhance the river corridor and define new spaces within
concept design: BIG MOVES Expand the network of natural green corridors and trail connections •
Enhance the river’s edge
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Enhance the natural east/west green corridors that run through the campus
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Define a green corridor around the campus perimeter for offroad bike and walking trails
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Increase the trail connections to the city
concept design: BIG MOVES Conserve and celebrate heritage building •
Enhance the building assets
concept design: BIG MOVES Enhance the unique precincts areas 5
1. South Campus Precinct 2. North Campus Precinct
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5. Innovation Place 6. River Valley 7. Health Sciences
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8. College Quarter 9. Athletic 10.Agricultural
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PRECINCTS Defined by uses, unique features, open spaces, buildings, heritage assets, streets and other elements.
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1. South (Core) Campus 2. North Campus
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5. Innovation Place 6. River Valley 7. Health Sciences 8. College Quarter 9. Athletic 10.Agricultural
PRECINCTS South Campus • Historical core of the university • Oriented around heritage Bowl and a mature tree canopy • Collection of collegiate gothic heritage buildings • Opportunity for new “front door” to the campus on College Drive, with mixeduse buildings, welcoming plazas, and multi-modal connections
PRECINCTS North Campus • Mixed-use campus • Connects south core to Innovation Place • Aligned over a fine grain network of streets • Oriented around a prominent quad open space • Provides connections to river valley and river’s edge west and the research lands east
PRECINCTS Research Lands • Centrally located on the campus • Houses a range of animal and farm related research • Mix of uses, emphasis on complement and compatibility with continued research programs • Opportunity for intensification along East Road – shift from surface parking to prominent open space, mixed-use buildings
PRECINCTS Farmstead • Envisioned as a continued “working landscape”, with active farm and agricultural activities • New development can complement existing, and provide community oriented uses – e.g. demonstration farm, interpretive centre • Built heritage and natural/agricultural heritage to be conserved and enhanced
PRECINCTS Innovation Place • Space for collaborative research and entrepreneurial initiatives • Home to businesses, startups, researchers • Supports commercialization of research • Mix of uses – offices and academic facilities, along with supporting functions – commercial, services, amenities, and some residential • Prominent open space features include linear Parkway, flexible park space
PRECINCTS River Valley • Open space buffer between river and campus • Defined by a forested tree canopy and naturalized landscape • Significant development is discouraged – area to remain as natural corridor • Trails and open spaces provide opportunities for recreation and leisure
PRECINCTS Health Sciences • Major regional and community destination on campus • Arrival gateway onto the campus at Hospital Drive and College Drive • New mixed-use buildings along College Drive • Existing open spaces to be preserved
PRECINCTS College Quarter • Compact, mixed-use area, with academic uses, residences, commercial space, along with services and amenities for surrounding community • Highly walkable precinct • Prominent green spine connects from 14th Ave. up to College Drive
PRECINCTS Athletic • Recreation and sporting destination for university and Saskatoon • Connected through a strong pedestrian network • Open space character defined by sports fields • Mixed-use/commercial uses provide synergies with sports facilities, and create frontage along College Drive and Preston Ave.
PRECINCTS Agricultural Lands • Important part of university identity • Dedicated for continued crop research and development new buildings will support these functions. • 108th St. enhanced as a major cycling connection to the campus • Gateway and landscape features promote identity for the area and announce arrival to the campus
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OPEN SPACE FRAMEWORK
OPEN SPACE FRAMEWORK Open Spaces function to create a beautiful, welcoming, animated, pedestrian oriented environment and destination. Each typology accommodates a variety of needs
OPEN SPACE FRAMEWORK: Ecological Corridors The University’s Arboretum River Valley and Forest landscape Water Features
OPEN SPACE FRAMEWORK: Major Informal Open Spaces Includes parks, fields, river valley, special gardens
OPEN SPACE FRAMEWORK: Formal Open Spaces Quads, Plazas and Courtyards
OPEN SPACE FRAMEWORK: Working Landscapes Agricultural and Research Lands
BUILT FORM FRAMEWORK
BUILT FORM FRAMEWORK New building opportunities to define and enhance precincts, and increase mixed university and community uses and amenities
BUILT FORM FRAMEWORK: Mixed Land Use Areas 5
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BUILT FORM FRAMEWORK: Building Orientation & Placement Buildings oriented to front streets, internal open spaces, and the external public realm
BUILT FORM FRAMEWORK: Landmark and Views •
New building landmarks are identified to demarcate gateways and special places
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They function as architectural features at the terminus to a view or open space
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They assist in building campus identity and in wayfinding
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Significant views and view corridors are framed and enhanced
MOVEMENT FRAMEWORK
frameworks: FRAMEWORK MOVEMENT MOVEMENT A multi-modal network, fostering walkability, connectivity, and an ease in wayfinding
MOVEMENT FRAMEWORK: Vehicular Network & Gateways A fine grain network of streets with gateway features at prominent entrance and access points, to enhance wayfinding and create a sense of place
MOVEMENT FRAMEWORK: Pedestrian Network Comprehensive network of sidewalks, paths, and trails
MOVEMENT FRAMEWORK: Bike Network Multi-modal, supporting cycling with dedicated onstreet and off-street bike lanes, multi-use trails, and connections to adjacent neighbourhoods and the city
MOVEMENT FRAMEWORK: Transit Network • Proposed BRT with stops along College Drive and Preston Avenue • Continued local bus routes with stops throughout the campus • Potential for internal shuttle route providing local campus access.
MOVEMENT FRAMEWORK: Parking Strategy •
Shift away from surface parking lots
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Below grade parking under each new build and under new plaza space
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Increased on-street parking
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Any additional structured parking are to be located around the perimeter of the campus
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Transportation Demand Management – increased transit usage, walking, cycling, car-share, AVs.
MOVEMENT FRAMEWORK: Street Hierarchy •
All streets are multi-modal, supporting active transportation and transit
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Higher order connections bring people in from across the city
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Main circulation routes move people around the campus
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Local and service streets provide access to buildings and spaces.
MOVEMENT FRAMEWORK: Street Hierarchy Gateways Prominent entrance streets with enhanced level of design to demarcate key entrances
Primary Streets North and South loops, main campus circulation route
Campus Drive Historical loop, provides access to heritage core, and connects North and South to circulation routes
MOVEMENT FRAMEWORK: Street Hierarchy Secondary Streets • Local campus access • Generous sidewalks • On-street parking on both sides of the street
Innovation Boulevard • Formal circulation route • Multi-modal street with generous tree planting
Park Road • Scenic Drive in a linear park setting
MOVEMENT FRAMEWORK: Street Hierarchy Green Streets • Narrow bucolic local streets with one sided parking • Some function as service streets
College Drive • Reimagined as pedestrian oriented street • BRT corridor • Urban character
Cumberland Avenue • Connections to campus and neighbourhoods
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PHASING: Phase 1 Areas of Focus
Concept blow up
PHASING: Phase 1 Areas of Focus
PHASING: Space Needs
Space Needs (net floor space in square metres)
Enrollment (FTE)
Current
21,442 FTE
~ 19,000 sq. m
Future
25,000 FTE
~ 23,000 sq. m
27,500 FTE
~ 16,000 sq. m
30,000 FTE
~ 17,000 sq. m Total
~ 75,000 sq. m
PHASING: New Development
30,000 FTE = ~10-12 buildings
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workshop AGENDA: Part 1: Affirmation of Vision, Principles, and Plan Part 2: How do we get there: Phasing & Implementation Report Back Closing Remarks, Next Steps
Let’s Workshop!
Thank you!
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