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The University of Saskatchewan is developing a new Campus Master Plan to guide the direction and growth of the campus over a 20-50 year time horizon. This is an exciting time for the University as it takes stock of its past, present, recent visions, and begins to imagine a renewed vision for the campus.
PROJECT PROCESS & WORK TO DATE
The Campus Master Plan process is structured over four phases, from an initial vision, to a conceptual design, along with the policies and strategies to guide its implementation. The chart below outlines the primary project phases, and also shows the general timing of engagement events. We are now in the third phase of the process. During the first two phases of the Campus Master Plan process, a series of engagement events, including stakeholder interviews, open-houses, pop-ups, and a survey were undertaken with students, faculty, staff, community groups, and the public to collect input on the priorities, aspirations, and objectives for the Campus. From this feedback, a range of themes emerged, as well as a Vision and Principles for the Campus, which will continue to inform and guide the development of the Plan.
HOW CAN YOU BE INVOLVED?
You can participate today! Take a look at the panels on display, leave your input on the panels with sticky notes, feel free to ask the facilitators any questions, and share your ideas. This is your opportunity to help shape the Plan. Don’t stop there! Stay tuned for further opportunities to get and stay engaged. For those who can’t make it to an event in person, opportunities will be made to engage with the Campus Planning team either on-line through the project website (http://facilities.usask.ca/campus-master-plan), or by reaching out to us directly. Watch for more information over the coming months and get engaged!
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Develop Plan Vision and Principles, identify opportunities for change and key priorities.
Develop Draft Concept Plan and Big Moves, identify preliminary policy directions for the Plan.
Prepare Campus Master Plan and Plan Frameworks, including Plan policies.
Finalize Campus Master Plan and Space Plan.
Workshops & Open House (Late Sept. 2017)
Workshop & Open House (Jan. 2018)
Presentation to U of S Governing Bodies
Stakeholder Interviews & Pop-up Open Houses (Jun. 2017)
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BACKGROUND
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WHAT IS A CAMPUS MASTER PLAN?
A Campus Master Plan provides a long term Vision that reflects the full physical development and growth potential of the campus lands, and comprehensively considers the core frameworks of Built Form, Open Space, and Movement in the design process. All aspects of these frameworks are filtered through a sustainability lens that responds to the University’s sustainability objectives, initiatives, and best practices. The Plan provides a Phasing and Implementation Strategy to guide development over a long term time horizon. The Campus Master Plan also addresses critical influences and opportunities such as Indigenization, Inclusivity, Placemaking, and Community and City Building.
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Open Space – How should future open spaces including streets, quads, courtyards, fields, natural areas, plazas and others, function and enhance the existing open space assets? Where should they be located? What features should they have? How can they reflect Indigenous Heritage? How are they integrated with the built form and how are they connected by the Movement Framework? Built form – Where are the best locations for new buildings? How will they support existing and new open spaces and define the public realm? What quality and character should they have? What amenities will they provide? Also, how can the significant heritage buildings on the campus be conserved and celebrated, and how can new buildings respectfully integrate with existing buildings?
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Movement – What policies, strategies, and initiatives will support more connectivity and wayfinding across the University, with surrounding areas, and the city at large? What are the opportunities to increase active forms of transportation through walking and cycling? How can the campus align with transit services and initiatives? What are other strategies to move people quickly and safely, and reduce dependency on single-occupancy car travel?
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DESIGN DRIVERS...WHAT WE HEARD
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The emerging themes reflect ideas, aspirations, and priorities for the future of the campus which we heard during earlier engagement events.
ENHANCE CAMPUS IDENTITY
SUPPORT HEALTH AND WELLBEING
CREATE A SUSTAINABLE & RESILIENT CAMPUS
CREATE A QUALITY BUILT ENVIRONMENT
ENHANCE PRECINCT SYNERGIES AND USES
DEVELOP A PARKING STRATEGY & ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION MODES
PRESERVE HERITAGE LANDSCAPE & CREATE DIVERSE OPEN SPACES
INDIGENIZE THE CAMPUS
CREATE A COMPLETE COMMUNITY
CREATE A COMPACT, CONNECTED & ACCESSIBLE CAMPUS
CREATE A CONNECTED COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENT
CREATE A CAMPUS FOR LEARNING & RESEARCH
BUILD ON CURRENT INITIATIVES AND ONGOING ENGAGEMENT
RESPECT FOR HERITAGE
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THE VISION
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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 and 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. 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.
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CREATE A COMMUNITY CONNECTED ENVIRONMENT TAWAW - Doors always open! The university should be an inclusive and welcoming place for the university community, the surrounding community, and the city as a whole.
CREATE A QUALITY BUILT ENVIRONMENT The university should be defined by buildings that reflect quality, timelessness and sustainability, while preserving the university’s heritage identity and character of place.
SUPPORT HEALTH AND WELLBEING The university should support the health and wellbeing of the university and surrounding community by serving as a recreational destination, as well as a food and amenity resource.
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CREATE A COMPACT, CONNECTED AND ACCESSIBLE CAMPUS The university should be connected to the city and the community through multiple active transportation methods such as walking, cycling and transit, supported by 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.
DEVELOP A PARKING STRATEGY AND ENCOURAGE ALTERNATE TRANSPORTATION MODES The university should endeavor to create a parking plan that will reduce parking demand on campus, reduce the surface parking footprint, maximize mobility options, and minimize environmental harm.
CREATE A COMPLETE COMMUNITY The University of Saskatchewan, should provide the opportunity to increase density and consider the mix of campus uses and functions. The types of buildings and public spaces should be designed to foster diversity, integration, and community building.
BUILD ON CURRENT INITIATIVES AND ONGOING ENGAGEMENT “Nothing About Us Without Us” is the new standard of business. The Campus Master Plan should be the opportunity to test drive the university’s commitment to ongoing engagement. It should be treated as “a framework for consultation and collaboration” and must include ongoing engagement with a variety of stakeholders, such as Campus Elders and the City.
“Sustainability needs to be the lens through which we write the Campus Master Plan, and that drives all aspects of design.” The university should be committed to sustainable, environmental, social, educational, and economic growth. The landscape, public realm and built environment should provide opportunities for outstanding contributions to sustainability, research, innovation, and health and wellness.
PRESERVE THE NATURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPE AND CREATE A DIVERSE OPEN SPACE NETWORK
CREATE A FLEXIBLE, EFFICIENT, AND ADAPTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
The university should be defined by a diverse network of beautiful, innovative, flexible, inspiring and welcoming open spaces that includes the preservation of the natural heritage landscape - the river corridor, the Bowl and courtyards, forest, and agriculture lands, integrated with new spaces and green streets to meet a variety of campus and community needs.
The university should strive for a sustainable approach to campus and spatial design to maximize both interior and exterior space utilization and efficiency, and to be adaptive to accommodate a variety of changes to seasonal, community, educational, economical, and environmental needs.
ENHANCE CAMPUS IDENTITY
INDIGENIZE THE CAMPUS
The university’s identity should be built on education, community, heritage, and place, and strengthened through integrated, collaborative, and synergistic relationships between the university, City and community.
CREATE A CAMPUS FOR LEARNING, RESEARCH, AND DISCOVERY The university should build its identity as a learning and research environment with an emphasis on quality and innovative teaching, pedagogical educational opportunities, in the context of a quality environment.
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CREATE A SUSTAINABLE AND RESILIENT CAMPUS
The university community should be committed to campus Indigenization which should be reflected in design and programming of the physical campus.
CONSIDER PLACEMAKING ENHANCE PRECINCT SYNERGIES AND USES The Campus should be a safe, vibrant, animated place throughout with unique (precinct) destinations and public spaces.
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OPEN SPACE FRAMEWORK
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The Open Space Framework constitutes a variety of existing and new open space typologies that function to create a beautiful, welcoming, animated, pedestrian oriented environment and destination. Each open space typology is intended to accommodate a variety of University and community open space needs, to enhance the tree canopy, to socialize the campus, to engage and welcome the community in, and to foster healthy living for all. The open spaces are the best opportunity to tell the Indigenous and agricultural story of the campus, which can be reflected through art, landscape design and planting, and through the use and programming of the spaces.
TYPOLOGIES AND CHARACTERISTICS ECOLOGICAL CORRIDOR, FOREST LANDSCAPE AND WATER FEATURES
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Along the river’s edge, a green corridor provides a link between the campus and the water’s edge. The geography of the edge is defined by a ridge with a series of coulées, providing dips down to the water from above. On top of the ridge is the Meewasin Trail, providing a multi-use link that runs north-south along the river. Moving into the campus, a forest landscapes permeates across the campus, with green fingers providing a lush character.
These are a diversity of larger informal park spaces on campus that are designed for flexible uses and recreational programming. They are open spaces that include destinations for passive recreational activities, and campus and community events. They include the River Valley park spaces, open greens, Indigenous ceremonial spaces, community gardens, a large community park south, and learning and teaching open spaces. In addition, the athletic precinct offers active recreational open spaces.
QUADS, COURTYARDS AND PLAZAS
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These are formal open spaces, with a higher level of landscape design and act as central spaces for gathering, social interaction, and leisure. Plazas are highly traveled formal spaces, with hardscapes mixed with softscape elements. Quads are large open spaces which can support larger gatherings and events, such as convocation ceremonies, concerts, festivals, or markets. Courtyards provide more intimate, quiet spaces, often found between buildings. As more formal open spaces, they are framed by buildings or prominent streets and intersections, and serve as landmarks and gateways as you move across the campus.
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LEGEND Agriculture Lands Working landscape
As an important part of the university’s academic and research activities, agricultural and farm lands inform the character of prominent open spaces across the campus. These lands include the farmsteads, agricultural fields, animal paddocks, and other plant and animal research areas, and the design of these areas serve their functional needs as working and research landscapes. With access restrictions due to the sensitive uses, the Plan provides opportunities for community to view and experience these landscapes through adjacent streets, paths and open spaces.
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The Built Form Framework provides a structure for new building development on campus, and reflects the maximum recommended build-out potential in terms of building footprint. New buildings are planned to be in close proximity to each other, with a compact form defined by a fine grain street network, supporting walkability. Buildings are oriented to frame internal open spaces, and front onto external spaces and streets. Heritage buildings are enhanced with new open spaces. Any additions to heritage assets are designed to preserve the integrity of the original character and frontage.
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At key entrance locations, points of gathering and activity, or at view termini, distinct design and building features create gateways to the campus and the precincts, providing recognizable landmarks, aiding in wayfinding, and supporting a stronger sense of place. Features and designs may include elements such as additional height, iconic architectural design, landscape design or unique materiality. Buildings and open spaces define key views and view corridors throughout the campus.
As a design principle, the public realm including streets, paths, trails, forested landscape, and open spaces are the organizing feature, and define the locations for development. Buildings front onto streets, and frame open spaces, to support a pedestrian scale and provide opportunities for street front animation. All sides of buildings should be safe, accessible, welcoming, and address the public realm.
A MIXED-USE CAMPUS
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The Plan provides for a mix of uses across the campus. The mix of uses in each precinct are to support and complement the core functions of each area. However a wide range of uses are encouraged across the campus, including learning and research buildings, institutional facilities, residences, retail, restaurants, cafĂŠs, recreation, offices, and others. In some areas, such as along College Drive, a greater range of uses is anticipated to support a more animated, urban and active character, whereas in others, such as the Research Lands, uses should be compatible with the core research functions.
To support a more pedestrian oriented campus, supporting greater active transportation and a more compact building form, the campus will transition away from surface parking lots through a range of strategies. These strategies include structured parking facilities that can be phased in over time as needed. Structured parking will be integrated in the overall building structure, not as stand alone facilities but fronted by other uses. Parkades should be located towards the periphery of the campus, to reduce vehicular circulation within the campus core. Other parking strategies include having one or two levels of parking below grade for each new build as well as expanding on-street parking. Some of the plazas can also be designed to accommodate below grade parking.
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The Movement Framework supports the Campus Master Plan Vision in becoming an accessible, multi-modal place that puts the pedestrian first. It provides a comprehensive integration of vehicular, pedestrian, bicycle, and transit movement as well as identifies key gateways and parking amenity opportunities. It is designed to increase connectivity on campus and to the surrounding community and create a walkable environment for all users. A clear hierarchy and function for streets is presented in the Movement Framework with these objectives in mind. VEHICULAR NETWORK
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LEGEND PEDESTRIAN PATHS (ALONG STREETS) PEDESTRIAN PATHS & TRAILS RIVER EDGE TRAIL The pedestrian network comprises sidewalks, pathways, trails, multi-use paths, and other spaces to provide comprehensive walking connections across the campus and to adjacent neighbourhoods. The network is intended to increase wayfinding and connectivity and encourage walking as the predominant mode of movement year round. The Pedestrian Network should be designed to support barrier-free access, and provides safe and convenient accessibility for all users, regardless of mobility level.
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The vehicular network across the campus provides a hierarchy of streets to move people into and around the campus. Higher capacity routes along the perimeter transition to a primary circulation loop that connects the entire campus and then to local streets providing access to campus areas. The network is envisioned as multi-modal, supporting safe, convenient and easy connections for walking, cycling, and transit across the campus in addition to vehicles. Gateways define major entrances, as well as secondary access points, and provide distinctive design elements to support as stronger sense of identity and aid in wayfinding. Gateways can be open spaces, distinctive buildings, or architectural features such as arches or gates.
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The Cycling Network across the campus supports greater active transportation, by providing a range of on-street, off-street and shared paths and bike lanes for safe and convenient bicycle access. Along the campus perimeter, and on higher volume corridors, dedicated cycling facilities provide separated routes to support safety and faster travel. On lower speed roads, and for local access, cycling facilities are provided through on-street bike lanes or through shared off-street travel. The Plan also recommends locating bike amenities such as lockers and pump stations within each precinct.
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The Plan reflects a reorientation of the city transit routes to service all areas of the campus, and integrates connections with the BRT line along College Drive and Preston Ave. There is also the potential for an internal campus shuttle along the loop road system.
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MOVEMENT FRAMEWORK 2/2 The Movement Framework supports a hierarchy of streets, designed to bring people to the campus, and provide circulation throughout. The design of streets places the emphasis on pedestrian movement, and support multi-modal connections, including transit. Street plantings, landscaping, and other features enhance the walking experience, and assist in wayfinding and creating a strong sense of place.
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PRIMARY STREETS (LOOP ROADS)
GATEWAY STREETS
Gateway Streets serve as primary entrances into the campus. They are defined by a boulevard character, with rows of trees on either side of the street and treed medians. Gateway Streets include the existing East Road, Wiggins Road, and the Campus Drive entry from College Drive. These streets should be designed to include Low Impact Development stormwater management along planting zones. Cycling and walking facilities are provided via sidewalks and bike paths. Setbacks allow for additional planting and a transition zone to buildings.
SECONDARY STREETS
The North and South Loop serve as primary circulation routes through the campus, connecting the north end of the campus down to College Quarter, and connects to the perimeter street of College Drive. The loops provide a high degree of accessibility, and accommodate all modes including bike and transit. Regular on-street parking supports short term stops close to destinations. The loops also serve as an important wayfinding device, providing a consistent streetscape to support easy navigation across the campus.
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Secondary Streets provide a travel lane in each direction, on-street parking and multi-use paths on both sides, and ample room for healthy street tree planting. A 4.0 m setback to building facades allows space for additional trees and plantings.
This prominent road is envisioned as a formal route through the northern part of the campus, from Innovation Place to the North Campus precinct. As a complete street, it provides dedicated space for all forms of travel, including pedestrians, cyclists, and vehicles. Wide boulevards support rows of street trees, and it is an opportunity for Low Impact Development along the boulevard to support sustainable stormwater management.
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Green Streets are narrow campus streets, providing direct access to buildings and spaces. Wide sidewalks foster a strong pedestrian orientation and generous boulevards for tree plantings create a bucolic walking environment. A smaller right-of-way and roadway, with on-street parking on one side, encourages slower vehicle speeds. Buildings front the street with setbacks providing additional planting space. Some green streets transition to narrower service oriented roads, with paving treatments emphasizing a pedestrian character.
College Drive is re-envisioned as a slower moving, pedestrian oriented street with multiple pedestrian crossings. The road is defined by regular tree plantings, a multi-use path to support walking and cycling on the north side, and a generous urban sidewalk on the south side for community animation. College Drive is also part of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor, which runs in a dedicated right-of-way, with stops serving the university. As a gateway to the university and connection to adjacent communities, the road supports a mix of uses, with buildings oriented towards the street with active frontages.
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CAMPUS DRIVE (HERITAGE LOOP ROAD)
Campus Drive is the heritage ring road that circles the historic campus core. As one of the more noted and familiar roads on the campus, it has a celebratory feel, with gateway features, allĂŠes of trees in generous boulevards, and large landscaped setback, particularly on the north side that are reminiscent of the original campus master plan. The roadway is narrow, with two travel lanes, and on-street parking. A multi-use path is located on the outer circle and a generous sidewalk is located on the inner circle. As a heritage street, it should be given an enhanced level of design and detail.
PARK ROAD
Park Road (currently known as Perimeter Road) is designed to facilitate a scenic park experience through the eastwest linear park. Wide sidewalks and a separated bike path provide comfortable multi-modal options. On-street parking supports close access to destinations, and two vehicle lanes are provided, one in each direction, separated by a planted median. The street provides the opportunity to front new buildings along the east-west axis.
CUMBERLAND AVENUE
Cumberland Avenue is an important local public street that connects the campus to the College Quarter, and to adjacent neighbourhoods. It is a multi-modal street, with generous sidewalks and separated cycling facilities. Setbacks along the west are generous to maintain the existing front yard forecourts of established residential areas. The campus side of the street is fronted by residential development, transitioning to a more active, mixeduse built form as the street approaches the intersection with College Drive.
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