Campus + Master Planning Experience

Campus Planning Experience

Architects

Master Planning

An Engaging + Inclusive Process

Campus Planning

Campus planning gives form and definition to the full spectrum of forces – cultural, ecological, political, social, and aesthetic – that shape the built environment and the public realm. A comprehensive master planning process synthesizes these factors into plans, guidelines, and design strategies that shape a campus to be resonant with a school, college, or university’s highest ambitions.

Engaging Communities

VMDO offers an innate understanding of “place,” combined with a highly collaborative process of engaging faculty, staff, and students in programming and design to produce a body of work of significant character. We believe that, beyond single buildings, it is the connections between sites and people, the integration of materiality and landscape in response to context, and the overall sensibility of “place” that contributes to making a memorable campus fabric. This attention to context, building traditions, and linkages within a campus landscape are elements the VMDO team will tease out in developing a clear concept for your campus.

Defining the Project Scope

At the start of the Campus Master Planning process, we will work closely with you to define the goals of the process. Some key questions we’re interested in receiving feedback on include:

• Who are the key stakeholders?

• What are the core challenges you are facing – as an institution and as a campus?

• What broader social, economic, or environmental goals can be achieved?

• How can the master plan support and enhance your physical setting?

• How do the goals of your institution intersect with the needs of its surrounding communities?

• How should your campus be developed / renewed to support academic, athletics, student life, and recreation needs?

Clemson University Core Campus Precinct Study & Design

Shenandoah University Master Plan

Campus Analysis: Gathering Key Input + Information

As architects specializing in designs for educational institutions, we are frequently engaged with public presentations, workshops, and meetings with the communities that we serve. Once we have established a mutual understanding of the project scope, we will work with you to identify and analyze key issues. Some key issues will be a matter of gathering research such as campus utility locations and parking capacity. Other issues will require the collaborative involvement of a variety of stakeholders. Collecting research and information may involve:

• Evaluation of existing buildings and campus features

• Research on existing utilities and infrastructure

• Data on classroom and office use

• Observations on existing pedestrian and vehicular traffic

• Collating data on existing and planned parking

Gathering input from stakeholders and community members will be a highly interactive process. As a team, we are prepared to gather input through:

• Interview + focus groups

• Interactive workshops + programming sessions

• Surveys

• Peer institution analysis

We will work with you to identify the groups to target and the best vehicle for gathering input. As leaders in this process, we will help you best address the key questions and concerns for the planning process.

Master Planning

An Engaging + Inclusive Process

Setting Meaningful Goal: Establishing Campus Design Principles

With a robust collection of background information in hand, we will work with you to identify comprehensive goals for the project. Campus design principles should articulate shared values and express the essence of your campus experience. Through our contact with members of your community, we will have a strong sense of the needs, priorities, challenges, and opportunities for achieving your ambitions for your campus. A clear consensus on the goals of the project will create common ground among stakeholders and provide a framework for evaluating the program and architectural designs as they develop. At the start of master planning, we will work closely with you to define the goals of the process and receive feedback on design principles. Possible campus design principles include:

• Establish a vision for growth that embraces and strengthens the goals of your strategic plan

• Capture the physical manifestation of you campus identity and spirit

• Create a sense of place, with integrity and authenticity, that supports student success

• Develop a recognizable campus identity

• Invest in infrastructural advances and best practices, including sustainable design principles

• Support pedestrian access and safety

Strategic Planning Goals

Grounded in your mission, values, and strategic plan, the goals we develop together will also reflect your mission to build a better campus through the following priorities:

• Strengthen your enrollment through strategic design and implementation of integrated enrollment management programs

• Foster the development of an enriching campus culture to support student success

• Achieve recognition for academic excellence through the development of high quality educational programs

• Invest in state-of-the-art IT infrastructure to support teaching, learning, research, and administration

• Extend intellectual, academic, cultural, and research resources to promote sustainable economic growth

• Institute an expanded branding and marketing program to create awareness and develop relationships

Campus Design Principles

Equally important, campus design principles will begin to translate common goals into a vision for their physical implementation. These design principles will articulate shared values, express the essence of your campus experience, and serve as guideposts for the planning process. Potential campus design principles include:

• Create spaces that promote intellectual pursuits, social interaction, and professional development

• Address and enhance your campus’ unique features and other campus gateways

• Respect and encourage meaningful ties to the neighboring communities

• Develop a network of pathways and campus spaces to bolster the pedestrian experience

• Articulate the presence of your campus clearly, cohesively, and boldly in planning for future growth

Together, these goals and principles will guide the difficult trade-offs sure to emerge throughout the design process. They will become the standard for balancing programs and concepts developed in your master plan.

Physical Content: Developing Planning Concepts

Your master plan should critically recognize the best of what your campus offers today, in order to envision how to move forward with confidence and vision. Campus analysis, project goals, and design principles will clarify project strengths as well as challenges found in your campus facilities. We will identify programmatic holes in your building stock and specify which areas of the campus need further study and visioning. As we start to develop planning concepts, we will begin to create conceptual site designs and define the scale and character of potential buildings and public spaces. We will propose specific strategies for key campus sites, gateways, pathways, and campus features. As a document, the plan will likely include specific guidelines for campus improvements including campus signage and wayfinding, landscape and planting materials, consistent detailing, and building massing.

Aerial of Liberty University’s Master Plan

Methodology

Solid Foundation for Planning Concepts

Planning Concepts

VMDO’s higher education concentration has made campus planning a core priority in developing work of all scales for a diverse collection of educational clients. We begin every design effort with a careful analysis of the existing campus fabric and advance confidently only once we’ve identified the unique character of a place. We strive to honor the legacy of the clients we serve through our efforts to understand and fortify the distinct qualities of their built and natural environments. Our planning concepts will include specific recommendations for:

Image and Campus Identity

As the guide for all new planning and construction on your campus, a new master plan will shape how campus facilities embody, represent, and facilitate a unified identity for your campus. The master plan will articulate how a campus identity, unique to you, will be expressed through the size and character of interior and exterior campus spaces, the massing of new buildings, material choices selected throughout campus, the quality and arrangement of outdoor furniture, and a consistency to campus signage. A design strategy for campus identity should also apply to your campus' presence as it reaches beyond traditional boundaries.

Existing Conditions and Size

Our initial campus analysis will involve an inventory of campus spaces. This document will provide a thorough analysis of classroom, administrative, and learning spaces available on campus. We will use our assessment of existing conditions as well as other resources to influence recommendations for the size and scale of any new facilities anticipated.

Parking, Roads, Traffic, and Campus Access

Parking and vehicular circulation have a tremendous impact on any campus. Planning carefully for both ensures that the automobile is not a singular driving force shaping the character of your campus – but still recognizes the incredible importance of getting parking right. Based on research, we will recommend how modifications to current parking resources can strengthen the character of the campus while meeting current and future parking needs. Similarly, roads can become a strong dividing line as they pass through a campus. We will develop planning concepts that strengthen campus spaces and minimize unnecessary divisions while still providing the access necessary for appropriate vehicular movement.

Campus Entrance

We will consider the scale, siting, and character of each of the individual entries to the campus. As a group, we will develop design strategies for clearly announcing the character of your institution and welcoming visitors and community members alike to the campus.

Sustainable Development and Environmental Impact

We are prepared to help you anticipate campus-scale improvements that could lead to large-scale conservation efforts. Similarly, we are prepared to evaluate sustainable site development plans to handle stormwater, building siting, landscape surfacing, and planting on campus in an environmentally responsible manner.

Landscape Planning / Guidelines for Landscape Design Elements

Planting, particularly tree planting, will define the character of the campus into the future. Working with a landscape architect, we will develop a thoughtful strategy regarding landscape planting and incorporate it into the master plan. We will also develop clear, consistent strategies for landscape furnishings including street furniture, bicycle racks, street lights, emergency phones, signs, and kiosks, among others. Guidelines for locating and even concealing service objects like loading docks and trash dumpsters will allow these elements to recede into the background.

Utilities and Infrastructure

Infrastructural support for campus improvements and expansion must be provided. This will include water, sewer, power, technology, and stormwater initiatives. We will rely again on a civil engineer to help us anticipate the space and access needed for campus growth as we recommend new development.

Signage and Wayfinding

The signs on campus should represent a branded, recognizable institutional identity while delivering clear, concise information to the campus community and its visitors. As we develop standards for signage and wayfinding systems, we will ensure that the strategy embodies the campus identity and provides a coordinated system for identifying buildings, spaces, and directions around campus.

Campus Development

Vision for Future Growth

As your campus master plan develops, we will work with you to evaluate needs and possibilities for new construction projects. By providing site analysis, programming, and design options, we will help you solidify design strategies that best embody the goals developed for your master plan.

Campus Growth – Evaluating Proposed Building Sites

In selecting sites for new buildings, we will look closely at the location, campus pathways, topography, and adjacencies of possible sites in conjunction with their suitability for construction. We will evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of building on each site, judging each based on the benefits for the new building itself as well as its contribution to your campus.

Programming

With careful programming in place, the spaces allotted for new construction will support the right balance of activities and academic pursuits for your campus community. As new construction projects are identified, architectural programming will identify the right balance of spaces and amenities to achieve the goals articulated by the first phases of the Master Plan.

Specifically, we will work with you and your community to clarify the number, types, and sizes of spaces to be housed in anticipated building projects. This list of spaces, sizes, relationships, and key descriptions will provide a format for discussing the new buildings while becoming a road map for the beginning of the design process.

Design Options

With a preliminary program and site in hand, we will begin the process of concept design. We will test how the program is tangibly applied as a series of building and site designs that we can compare on a number of different levels. This program will serve as a living document that will undergo further analysis. By proposing several options for building design, we will develop an understanding of how the imagined program spaces will intersect to form a dynamic new building. By pairing each proposed building design with a site plan, we will investigate options for the site’s pedestrian pathways, connections with its campus precinct, vehicular access, and service entries, and find the best way for the new construction to feel like a natural addition to the campus.

Setting Priorities – Initial Cost Budget

In creating a budget for design options, we will determine the relative cost of proposed schemes. Based on cost per square foot figures of similar recently constructed projects and an estimate of site costs, this initial budget can become an important “reality check” that will clarify the spaces you can afford to include in a final building program.

Supporting Fundraising – Developing Momentum for Building Projects

Renderings, developed when appropriate, will articulate how new construction will influence the character, scale, and feel of your campus. Compelling renderings will help bring a project to life and support a higher level of understanding, clarity, and enthusiasm needed to garner necessary approvals, as well as potentially spark a successful fundraising campaign. By identifying the right project(s), creating a responsible budget, and developing dynamic fundraising materials, your campus will be poised to develop momentum for future building projects.

Project Management

As the master plan is developed, we will place the identified projects on a master schedule. This schedule will identify milestones that will enable you to follow its progress, anticipate construction that will disrupt campus activities, and identify design efforts that will require coordination between projects. Project budgets for new projects on a master schedule will help your monitor the funds required to accomplish the work.

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Planning and Programming

At a Variety of Scales

Regardless of scale, good design should always be preceded by focused planning efforts. This process begins with defining long and short term objectives and requirements, resulting in a holistic vision down to a highly-detailed program of spaces. Good planning - regardless of scale - is derived from an understanding of the client’s existing conditions, mission, and future goals. Together we outline a strategy where the physical environment can evolve over time to support their changing needs.

Planning at the Campus Scale

Planning at the Precinct Scale

Sweet Briar College Master Plan

Clemson University Core Campus Plan

Shenandoah University Master Plan

TCC Chesapeake Campus Precinct Plan

Hampden-Sydney College Master Plan

University of Central Florida Precinct Plan

Liberty University Master Plan

Univ. of South Carolina Housing Master Plan

Mary Washington College Master Plan

University of Virginia Precinct Planning

University of New Orleans Master Plan

University of Miami Centennial Village

Planning at the

Projects

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SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HOUSING

UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS

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VT Creativity + Innovation District LLC

W&L University Law School Study University of Florida HMP / Honors College

Old Dominion University New Biology Building

“The Core Campus Master Plan is a remarkable achievement … Through an in-depth participatory process, VMDO has charted a challenging but viable course for development … The program was very challenging, but through innovative problem solving and tireless interaction, the team has taken the complex goals of the University and has fashioned a vision that has taken root.”

Gerald Van Der Mey Director of Campus Planning Clemson University

Programming Space Utilization Analysis

Spaces for education are evolving in dynamic and exciting ways. Whereas classrooms of the past have been designed for the static transmission of knowledge from the teacher to a passive array of students, education spaces of the future are embracing opportunities for collaboration and movement.

Classrooms and Offices

Modern classrooms and offices come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and configurations, and with a broad array of amenities. If desired, a space utilization analysis will analyze the usage patterns of existing resources to:

• Confirm needs for academic classrooms, labs, support spaces, and offices

• Determine the availability of existing classrooms and offices (noting size, occupancy, and type of space for each)

• Clarify usage rates appropriate for your campus

• Identify needs for additional spaces

Circulation and Gathering Spaces

Not just a means to get “from here to there,” circulation spaces also serve as social areas for interaction between students, faculty, and staff. Student commons areas and faculty lounges that are centrally located and easily accessible to all will encourage a natural blending of sociability and learning. A broader analysis of learning spaces beyond the classroom – in the “spaces between” formal academic settings – will help you evaluate further opportunities for learning to flow naturally on campus. These spaces will facilitate continuing conversations, first sparked in the classroom, and produce energy and meaning in the support of education.

Variety of gathering and learning spaces at Georgia Tech, George Mason University, Liberty University, Sweet Briar College, and Virginia Tech.

Site Connections

Valuing Campus Green Space

James Madison University’s Wayland Hall

Liberty University’s Montview Student Union

Washington & Lee University’s Elrod Student Center

TCC Chesapeake Student Center

University of Virginia’s Graduate Center for Jefferson Fellows

Site Connections Campus Connections, Pathways, + Access

By pulling in prominent campus pathways and connecting circulation areas to active, programmed outdoor spaces, each building can reach out to its surroundings, provide a clear center of gravity for campus activities, and be representative of your unique identity and individual character.

VMDO will carefully evaluate the pathways and roads through campus, ensuring that the campus maintains a seamless, pedestrian campus edge while still gaining access to the loading docks and service drives needed to supply the buildings.

University of Virginia’s Graduate Center for Jefferson Fellows

Longwood University’s Wheeler Hall

Washington & Lee University: View of Boardwalk, Dining Terrace, and new Lawn in front of the Student Gym

Summary of Experience

pre-development development operating

VMDO’s portfolio demonstrates a breadth of experience working with similar institutions on similar planning and design of housing & dining. We have a tailored understanding of operating within institutional budgets, delivering high-quality projects that marries longstanding, cultural ethos.

Our various planning efforts are simultaneously visionary and realistic, embedded in a deep understanding and commitment to maximize the value of university resources. This important programming is central to our work.

Clemson University Core Campus Residential Complex

George Mason University Commons Residence Hall

George Washington University Thurston + Mitchell Hall Renovation

Georgia Tech Glenn + Towers Residence Halls

James Madison University Housing Master Plan

James Madison University Paul Jennings Residence Hall

James Madison University Gifford, Hoffman, + Wayland Halls Renovations

Longwood University Housing Master Plan + 5 Building Renovations

Old Dominion University Owens House

Radford University Housing Plan + 6 Building Renovations

Roanoke College Campus + Housing Master Plan

Shenandoah Campus + Housing Master Plan

University of Florida Housing Master Plan

University of Miami Centennial Village

University of New Orleans Master Plan

University of Virginia Gooch + Dillard Residence Halls

Virginia Tech Creativity + Innovation District

William & Mary Housing + Dining Master Plan

William & Mary Monroe + Old Domion Residence Halls

Master Planning Housing Dining Academic Space Related Parking Health +WellnessStormwater+Resiliency Strategies Systems of InfrastructureStakeholder Engagement Post-Occupancy Evaluation Cost + Benefit Estimation Community + Gathering Spaces Commissioning Operations + Maintenance

Relevant Experience Campus Planning

The following collection of work represents our ability to successfully collaborate with clients, to help them imagine and plan for campus development that realizes their best ambitions. For each of these projects, our team packaged findings, ideas, and concepts through graphic, written, and presentation formats. Our work captures both the spirit and the key information of each campus planning project.

Clemson University’s Core Campus Honors College

Washington & Lee University’s Law School Study

Washington & Lee University’s Housing Study

UVA’s

James Madison University’s Spotswood Hall Study

University of Virginia’s Arts Gateway Study

James Madison University’s Spotswood Hall Study

Relevant Experience

University of Florida Housing Master Plan + Honors College

The Housing Master Plan is grounded in thorough research, influenced by academic scholarship,and rooted in a detailed understanding of the University’s existing facilities and conditions. The recommendations of this plan are intended to create a bold yet realistic vision of how renewed housing facilities can support a signature UF experience and strengthen its position as a preeminent national university.

Housing Master Plan Goals

1. Supporting a Signature UF Experience: By improving both the housing facilities and the program of the existing housing program, the University will support students’ social and academic engagement in a way that is unique to the Gator experience.

2. Contribute to a Vibrant Campus Life: Focusing on new and renovated housing in the core of campus will strengthen both the residential experience and the vitality of the campus.

3. Balance Financial Accessibility with Quality Facilities: The University will promote equity among residents throughout the housing system while maintaining a high-quality standard for operations and maintenance.

4. Maintain Student Choice and Fiscal Responsibility: UF housing must continue to be financially successful in order to allow for new construction and reinvestment to occur. Planning for capital projects is aligned with adjustments in revenue and expenses to maintain the system’s financial health.

The University of Florida Housing Master Plan supports the transformation of Florida’s flagship university to become a Top-5 public university with “top-5 facilities and a top-5 campus.” The Housing Master Plan provides guiding principles for residential life, demand/ market analysis, a literature review of student housing research, a financial plan, and facilities assessment for 168 facilities. The plan will help guide over $2 billion in construction over the next decade.

University of Florida Hosing Master Plan

View from Museum Road

Honors College Section

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“We’re trying to recruit the best and brightest students ... part of that is providing great living situations.”

Charlie Lane Senior VP + Chief Operating Officer, University of Florida

Relevant Experience College of William & Mary Housing + Dining Master Plan

William & Mary (W&M) engaged VMDO as part of a team with strategic advisors Brailsford & Dunlavey to develop a comprehensive Housing and Dining Master Plan for the first time in the university’s 327-year history. The university’s housing program includes seventy individual residence hall facilities and three dining halls that span architectural eras dating from 1913 to 2013. Given an aging housing and dining portfolio, the university acknowledged the need for a proactive campus-wide approach to plan for renovations to and replacements of the existing housing and dining stock—with plans to complete this ambitious project by 2032. Studying housing and dining in parallel allowed the team to produce findings that will inform an integrated strategy to improve the on-campus student experience. This planning effort began with a thorough assessment of current housing and dining operations, facilities, and student preferences. Its recommendations will help W&M prioritize the investments needed to dramatically improve its housing and dining programs.

The project is split into three phases with each phase addressing different locations and buildings on campus. Over the course of this effort, William & Mary will increase the percentage of beds with air conditioning from 42% to 100%. Meanwhile, the average age of housing facilities will drop from 54 to 10, the number of individual residential halls will drop from 70 to 55, and the number of beds will remain constant at 5,000.

Currently, the primary questions and difficulties the university is facing include, “how can we replace the most beds in the least amount of time… we are wanting to accelerate this as much as possible, targeting specifically the dorms and the facilities that were identified by the consultants as being most in need of attention,” Vice President of Student Affairs Ginger Ambler said. “At the same time, recognizing that as buildings go out of inventory and returned in that process, we still need to maintain housing to meet the demand and the projected anticipated need of students, and also to be mindful of our buildings that are not going to need major renovations… that we’re continuing to give them ongoing maintenance so that we don’t end up with a deferred maintenance problem at the end.” The plan resolves these questions with a clear road map for renovation and replacement projects that are timed and calibrated to achieve the university’s goals.

West Woods Conceptual Massing

The plan is developed in three phases and includes renovation and new construction to either improve or replace all of the university’s outdated facilities. New construction is focused primarily on two precincts of campus. West Campus Housing and Dining envisions 1100 new beds and a new residential dining hall to replace the existing Yates Hall, the Randolph Complex, and the Commons Dining Hall. The site plan will integrate the new complex into the existing landscape, connecting to important campus pathways and celebrating views of and spatial connections to the West Woods. New construction at the Campus Center will fundamentally transform the gateway experience of the William & Mary campus. By replacing the existing Campus Center and several surrounding buildings, the university will create a welcoming new entry experience for students and visitors alike. An additional project at existing Lemon and Hardy Halls will add 200 beds of new housing to complete that existing quad.

Phase 1

Phase 2

Liberty University’s 2030 Campus Master Plan

Relevant Experience

Featuring 522,000 square feet of living-learning residential space on Lake Osceola, Centennial Village will fulfill the vision for a visually stunning and programmatically complete first year residential community at the University of Miami. Attracting and engaging top students through an enhanced residential profile, Centennial Village enriches the first year experience through programming and architecture designed to foster academic, social, and community relationships and interaction with live-in faculty and residence life staff. Part of an ambitious, multi-phased housing plan, Centennial Village builds on efforts to re-define what it means to live, learn, work, and meet at the University of Miami. VMDO was selected as the winning designer from a pool of invited applicants, five of whom were asked to present design work over a multi-staged interview process.

Centennial Village is being programmed to create a sense of community at multiple levels, starting with 1,728 beds of student housing and progressing to the scale of the floor, building, village, and campus. Centennial Village’s four Residential Colleges reach out to campus, building on the existing architectural context and connecting the campus together, while reinventing the entire south side of Lake Osceola as a new and dynamic center of student life. The Residential Colleges are distinguishable as four buildings, offering a straightforward sense of orientation and identity for students that makes a lasting impression. Sited next to a new Canal Walk that connects residential, academic, dining, and pedestrian spaces along a shared waterfront, the four Residential Colleges, along with a renovated Eaton Residential College, create a village – a community where learning is integral to life.

Studies show that students who live on campus perform better academically, graduate at an accelerated pace, and rate their college experiences better than those who live off campus. Architecture’s role in creating a sense of home is critical to supporting each student’s physical and mental health. The proposed design of Centennial Village offers respite through physical and visual connections to nature and through the incorporation of natural materials and colors.

Centennial Village Phasing Plan

Campus Housing Strategic Plan

Walkway Along Canal

University of Miami Centennial Village

“When presented with the opportunity to re-envision our first-year housing, we took an in-depth look at the first-year experience of our resident students. Centennial Village will provide students with a blend of individual, group, and community-wide spaces to aide in their transition into University life.”

Jim Smart Executive Director of Housing and Residential Life University of Miami

Relevant Experience

Shenandoah University Master Plan

The Shenandoah University Campus Plan provides a new vision for the campus. Based on broad campus input, developed into concepts, and articulated as a clear plan forward, the Shenandoah Campus Plan aligns with the University’s goals and planning targets. It has been developed to guide campus growth + develop Shenandoah’s strengths, and to project a consistent image through the campus experience.

While the Campus Plan addresses Shenandoah’s long-range goals, it also lays out a strategy to improve the Shenandoah campus in fiveyear increments. The five-year planning strategy identifies modest developments that will create palpable changes immediately. Progress planned at the 10- and 15-year marks build upon these initial steps, ultimately achieving a larger vision for Shenandoah University.

New strategies for organizing spaces on campus include:

• Shifting the new Concert Hall and Arts Quad to the south, taking advantage of land acquired during the Millwood Avenue closure

• Consolidating Athletics on East Campus, creating a central zone for Athletics

• Consolidating student housing onto the main campus west of I-81, responding to student desires in the heart of campus

• Distributing administrative spaces throughout the campus.

Shenadoah University’s Master Plan

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CONCEPTS

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Aerial photograph of the existing campus.

15-YEAR CAMPUS CONCEPTS

to the spaces and programs

The 15-Year Plan

in the previous phases. Landscape improvements fulfill the broader vision for a pedestrian-oriented campus and improved collegiate spaces. Building projects would expand existing programs to meet

Landscape

and demand for on-campus housing.

- Dell Phase II: remove Lowry Drive and a portion of Wade Miller Drive to expand and enhance The Dell.

- Remove University Inn, consolidate parking, and extend the limitedaccess campus entry to the new parking garage east of Funkhouser Hall.

- Cross I-81 with a new pedestrian bridge connecting the new residential quad to the athletics precinct. This will provide pedestrian access across Interstate-81 and create a prominent, attractive architectural element, announcing Shenandoah University to interstate travelers.

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- Build structured parking on the Armory site behind the new welcome center and administrative building. This new parking would allow the parking at Orstrom Bryant Theater to be developed as a new Performing Arts Quad.

- Replace East Campus Housing with a new athletic field.

Building Improvements

- Build new sophomore residence halls at the new East Green.

- New upper division housing to the north of the Brandt Student Center.

- Expand the new Athletics building to include a multi-purpose arena for basketball performance and events.

- Renovateand add to Armstrong Hall to provide new academic spaces.

- Possible expansions to Ohrstrom-Bryant Theater.

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Relevant Experience

Liberty University Master Plan

Liberty University’s Master Plan seeks to create a campus-wide identity of excellence by re-envisioning the entirety of its physical environment in a comprehensive way that creates a memorable campus experience for students. The plan organizes the many previously fractured aspects of campus life into a cogent assembly of quads, academic facilities, and student amenities, all connected by a new 1.5-mile-long accessible campus walk. Designed by VMDO, the Master Plan establishes approximately 1 million square feet of new building over the course of 10 years. The projects that have come out of the Master Plan (also designed by VMDO) are highlighted in the photographs to the right.

Liberty University’s 2030 Campus Master Plan

Liberty University’s 2010 Campus Master Plan

Indoor Practice Facility

View from the Freedom Tower

Concert Hall

Library + Academic Commons

Academic + Performance Center

Basketball Practice Facility

Montview Student Union

Science Building School of Music

View from Liberty University - Montview Student Union’s Steps

Relevant Experience

Community CollegeChesapeak Precinct Plan + Student Center

Precinct Plan

This precinct master plan was a follow-up to a 2007 master plan with a focus on the area which would become the first phase of build-out. Phase one design projects included a new Student Center, an Academic building, and parking upgrades.

The precinct master plan studied the appropriateness of the new building locations relative to the current campus buildings, analyzed the parking upgrades and campus infrastructure, and investigated the build-out sequence. While two design teams would work independently on the buildings and site, a single CM would deliver the construction project. The precinct plan served to test whether the key goals of the master plan – concentrating parking within structures along the perimeter and organizing future buildings around an open green – could be successfully achieved given the chosen delivery method.

Phase one construction concentrated on the west side of the campus parking lot and successfully connected new buildings to the old over the vast ocean of cars and engaged the campus' unique wetland landscape. The precinct plan accounted for phased interim parking, pedestrian connections, consolidated stormwater management strategies, and a revised service access strategy. To achieve the greatest success of a pedestrian-connected campus, the precinct plan proposed an alternate location for the academic building and a restruc turing of service roads that would reinforce, rather than isolate, the campus from the wetland environment on the north side of campus. Site work was concentrated together, with combined frontage on a new green space that extended from the new building entries to the existing campus buildings – overall creating a safe, pleasant, collegiate landscape connection.

Student Center

The Student Center's siting takes advantage of a new campus green space on the south and the tidal wetland environment on the north. Energized spaces – recreation and café – spill out onto green space and terrace edge on the wetlands. A shaded court acts as an outdoor atrium for the new building and frames a wide portal that extends views and access out to the landscape beyond. The building contains student activity, recreation, lounge and study areas, meeting rooms, multi-purpose rooms, digital gaming, a fitness center, student organi zation offices, child minding and a café / food service venue. Program components find useful expression on the exterior and project the lively activity within the building that attracts and welcome students.

LEED Gold certified, the Student Center received the 2016 Facility Design Award of Excellence from the Association of College Unions International.

Commons Gathering Space

Recreational + Dining Spaces

Academic Spaces

Portal Extends Views to the Wetland Landscape to the North

Relevant Experience

Clemson University Core Campus Study

VMDO's comprehensive vision for the Core Campus of Clemson University – including programming and concept design for a combined union, housing, and dining project – highlights our team’s approach to fruitful student engagement, intensive professional collaboration, and strategic success in large, multi-phased planning. Working in concert with local architects Stevens & Wilkinson (Architect of Record) and Sasaki Associates (Dining Design), VMDO guided the university in an open, engaging programming effort, starting in 2006 with campus-wide planning and design workshops, to the final completion of three residence halls, a residential and retail dining facility, and strategic doses of academic space in 2016.

Aerial of Core Campus

Core Campus

Axon Highlighting Residence Hall (2009)

Axon Highlighting All New Construction (2009)

Axon Highlighting the Entire Core Campus Plan (2009)

Core Campus Site Plan (2009)

Relevant Experience

Clemson University Core Design

Following a 2002 Campus Master Plan decision to demolish and replace three major buildings in the middle of its campus, Clemson University set out to fundamentally re-imagine the entire Core Campus precinct. The Core Campus Study (completed by VMDO in 2008) was meant to answer the question: How might forward-looking approaches to housing, academic, dining, and student life programs be combined into an intense, innovative, and dynamic mixed-use center for Clemson University?

The first built project of this planning initiative resolves this question with a new residence hall complex that includes 1,200 seats of dining and a home for Clemson’s Honors College. VMDO directed design of the new 700 bed residence hall and Honors College – working in concert with Sasaki Associates, who provided design leadership on dining and landscape, and Stevens + Wilkinson, who served as the Architect of Record. The project’s guiding design principle is to create a vibrant cross-section of campus life that captures the physical manifestation of the Clemson experience.

This first phase of Core Campus’ redevelopment fulfills the university’s drive to combine housing, dining, and the Honors College in a way that enhances Clemson’s profile. Making connections to key focal points on campus, visually and physically, was instrumental in building on Clemson’s campus identity to create an inspiring sense of place. The new Campus Walk ties together an arched passageway that connects existing student housing in the Quad with a new residential dining hall and retail dining venues that spill out onto café terraces along the walk. Landscape divides and joins program space, creating a dynamic center for student activity that is full of life both day and night.

The mix of uses programmed in Core Campus pushed expectations for density well beyond what is commonly found elsewhere on campus. Design strategies bring down the scale of the complex while ensuring the architectural language complements both historic and recent buildings nearby, as well as future construction.

Campus Walk Student Study Area

Interior of the Honors College

Exterior of the Honors College

Relevant Experience

Averett University Master Plan

Photographs of Buildings Analyzed for the Averett University Master Plan

Averett University: Aerial Axonometric Drawing of Building + Landscape Concepts

Averett University Proposed Athletics Precinct Master Plan

Rendering of Sims Hall:

Rendering of Sims Hall (Existing)

Relevant Experience

University of Virginia’s College at Wise Campus Plan Design Guidelines + Key Campus Projects

Rendering of New Multi-purpose Arena

Renovated Entrance to Science Building

Student Center Exterior

Landscape Connections to the New Student Center

Landscape Connections to the New Student Center

Relevant Experience

Master Planning Experts

Relevant Project Experience

Averett University Master Plan and Student Center

Bridgewater College Student Apartments

Clemson University Core Campus Housing + Honors College

George Washington University Thurston and Mitchell Residence Hall Renovations

James Madison University Housing Master Plan Jennings Residence Hall

Liberty University Liberty University Library Montview Student Union & Dining School of Music and Concert Hall

Joe Atkins AIA, LEED AP BD+C

Principal + Higher Education Leader

Joe Atkins is responsible for the planning and design of VMDO’s most successful higher education projects. Joe has more than twenty years of experience designing iconic buildings and landscapes for educational and public clients. His upfront planning and design efforts are instrumental in creating sites and structures that fit seamlessly with their surroundings, are carefully attuned to their use, and contribute to making lasting and meaningful places.

Joe brings clear conceptual thinking and diligent attention to detail to each of his engagements. He is adept at synthesizing the needs and desires of a wide spectrum of stakeholders and responding with inspired architecture. He believes that finding and elevating what is unique about each campus lays the groundwork for a successful project.

Joe’s commitment to quality design, strong conceptual thinking, and attention to detail are evident in all of his projects. His work is characterized by careful consideration of place, resulting in projects that successfully and inventively address a variety of programmatic and aesthetic concerns.

Experience Professional Registration

Year Started Professional Practice: 1988

Year Started at VMDO: 1992

Education

Master of Architecture University of Virginia — 1992

Bachelor of Science in Architecture University of Virginia — 1988

Registered Architect: Virginia Memberships + Accreditations

American Institute of Architects, Member Association of College Union, International, Member Association of College & Research Libraries, Member

Old Dominion University Owens House

Randolph-Macon College Blackwell Performing Arts Center McGraw-Page Library Study

Roanoke College Campus Master Plan

Stockton University Student Center + Dining

University of Florida Housing Master Plan Honors Residential College

University of Miami Centennial Village & Housing Strategic Plan

University of South Carolina Housing Master Plan

University of Virginia Center for Jefferson Fellows John Paul Jones Arena Parking Garage

University of Virginia’s College at Wise Student Center Henson Residence Hall Science Center Renovation + Addition

Virginia Military Institute Center for Leadership + Ethics

Virginia Tech Innovation + Creativity District LLC

Virginia Theological Seminary Dining Renovation

Virginia Wesleyan University Greer Environmental Sciences Center

Washington & Lee University John W. Elrod University Commons & Dining

William & Mary Housing + Dining Master Plan Monroe Residence Hall Old Dominion Residence Hall

Young Harris College Rollins Campus Center + Dining

Principal + Residence Life Director

Michele Westrick is a Principal, co-leads the Residence Life Concentration and provides leadership for VMDO’s Staffing and Project Management Advocacy Groups. Her primary interest lies within the broader framework of Student Life and how thoughtful designs for residence halls contribute to an enriching student experience, both academically and socially. Drawing from two decades of collaboration with Student Affairs and Residence Life professionals, Michele manages the direction of projects and ensures that the clients’ goals are realized in the final building. Ranging in scale and complexity, Michele’s project experience is rooted in a deep history of housing master plans, new construction and renovation projects for higher education clients. She embraces the opportunity to both honor the rich history and architectural integrity of a college campus while creating new facilities that serve the needs and expectations of today’s students.

Relevant Project Experience

Bridgewater College Student Apartments

Georgia Institute of Technology Glenn Residence Hall Towers Residence Hall

George Mason University University Commons Housing Complex

James Madison University Housing Master Plan Gifford Residence Hall Hoffman Residence Hall Jennings Residence Hall Wayland Residence Hall

Longwood University Housing Master Plan Cox Residence Hall Stubbs Residence Hall Wheeler Residence Hall

Radford University Bolling Residence Hall Draper Residence Hall Pocahontas Residence Hall

University of Florida Housing Master Plan Honors Residential College

University of South Carolina Housing Master Plan

University of Virginia Gooch Residence Hall Dillard Residence Hall

William & Mary Housing + Dining Master Plan Monroe Residence Hall Old Dominion Residence Hall

Experience Professional Registration

Year Started Professional Practice: 1992 Year Started at VMDO: 1999

Education

Bachelor of Architecture Pennsylvania State University — 1992

Registered Architect: Virginia

Memberships + Accreditations

American Institute of Architects, Member

Association of College + University Housing Officers - International, Member

Michele Westrick AIA, LEED AP BD+C

Relevant Project Experience

Clemson University Core Campus Housing Design, Student Engagement and Post-Occupancy Study

George Mason University University Commons Housing Complex

James Madison University Housing Master Plan Wayland Residence Hall

Kennesaw State University Housing Master Plan

Longwood University Stubbs Residence Hall Student Housing Master Plan

Old Dominion University Owens House Residence Hall, Programming

Senior Associate + Programming/Visioning Specialist

Frances Lengowski, AIA, LEED AP BD+C is passionate about the role that well-designed living environments play in supporting student engagement and success. She is skilled at synthesizing a wide range of student and staff voices and creating a Program that achieves a strategic vision for her university clients. Her experience in all aspects of student housing design – from planning through construction and post-occupancy evaluations - gives her first-hand knowledge of what makes residential environments work effectively. Her experience includes both in-depth renovation work as well as visioning for new construction. She takes particular joy in developing realistic yet imaginative design concepts in support of the project goals.

Frances is skilled at incorporating a wide range of student and staff voices in the coordination and design of higher education housing projects. Her interpersonal and technical skills support the development of innovative architectural solutions, phasing plans, and planning strategies that are rooted foremost in client input. From the first to last stages of a project, Frances strives to translate project goals into conscientious design concepts that articulate a clear vision for a college campus.

Frances is continually working to apply the best strategies from VMDO’s student housing work to each new project while continually improving upon the firm’s body of work. In an effort to extract valuable feedback from facility users, Frances has spearheaded a client research and post-occupancy survey process in order to continually enhance VMDO’s understanding of past experience.

Experience Professional Registration

Year Started Professional Practice: 2004

Year Started at VMDO: 2004

Master of Architecture University of Virginia — 2004

Bachelor of Arts in Geology Carleton College — 1998

Registered Architect: Virginia

Memberships + Accreditations Association of College and University Housing Officers-International (ACUHO-I), Member ACUHO-I Sustainable Facilities Committee, Member 2012-2016; Chair 2014-2016

Virginia Society AIA Emerging Leaders in Architecture, Class of 2012

Radford University Jefferson, Madison, Moffett, Bolling, Draper and Pocahontas Residence Hall Renovations

Roanoke College Campus Master Plan

Shenandoah University Campus Master Plan

Tandem Friends School Master Plan

University of Central Florida Housing Master Plan

University of Florida Housing Master Plan Honors Residential College

University of South Carolina Housing Master Plan

University of Virginia’s College at Wise Science Building Program Verification Study

Virginia Wesleyan University

Greer Environmental Sciences Center, Concept and Sustainability Planning

Virginia Tech

Creativity and Innovation District LLC

Washington & Lee University Undergraduate Housing Plan

William & Mary Housing + Dining Master Plan Monroe Residence Hall Old Dominion Residence Hall

Frances Lengowski, AIA, LEED BD+C

Maria Casarella AIA VMDO DC Managing Director

Maria Casarella is a Senior Project Architect with over 20 years of award-winning historic preservation, institutional and residential experience throughout the District of Columbia. She takes a context-based and collaborative approach to design and project management, providing innovative solutions that take into account the unique sensibilities of each client. This experience is further informed by serving on the DC Historic Preservation Review Board for seven years and on the Board of Trustees for the Historical Society of Washington, DC. Thus, her expertise guiding clients through complex entitlements and design approvals has resulted in the successful completion of prominent DC area projects, several of which have been recipients of the DC AIA Award for Historic Preservation.

Relevant Project Experience

Association of Independent Maryland + DC Schools Aidan Montessori School*

Children’s National Hospital Takoma Theatre*

Urban Alliance Foundation Urban Alliance Foundation Headquarters* Events D.C. R.I.S.E. Demonstration Center*

Union Lawyers Alliance AFL-CIO Headquarters Plaza Improvements*

The Phillips Collection The Phillips Collection*

Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School Georgetown Visitation Founder’s Hall*

Residences at St. Elizabeth East St. Elizabeth’s East Campus Residences*

The Montgomery Farm Women’s Cooperative Market Farm Women’s Cooperative Market*

Full Circle Montessori School

Full Circle Montessori School*

* completed with a previous firm

Experience Professional Registration

Year Started Professional Practice: 1995 Year Started at VMDO: 2021

Education

Master of Architecture Columbia University — 1992

Bachelor of Science in Architecture Catholic University — 1988

Registered Architect: Washington, DC Maryland

Memberships + Accreditations

American Institute of Architects, Member Historical Society of Washington DC, Board Member DC Historic Preservation Review Board, 2008-2015 American Institute of Architects, Washington, DC

N. Street Village, Board of Trustees

Washington Architectural Foundation, “Design Like a Girl” Volunteer

Kim Smith AIA, LEED AP BD+C Principal + Dining Specialist

Kim was the first female Associate Principal of VMDO Architects. Her design leadership is characterized by an attentive management style and commitment to in-depth problem-solving and follow-through at every phase of a project. Her roles at VMDO include leading VMDO’s Staff Development Advocacy Group and providing HR support.

Kim brings over twenty years of experience to the VMDO team, both in the role as project architect and project manager. Kim is inspired by projects of all sizes, whether new construction or renovation projects, and sustains that enthusiasm through the duration of the multi-year contracts. Her focus on detail, process, and project standards are well-suited to her past roles in project management of projects such as Washington & Lee’s Student Commons and Tidewater Community College Chesapeake’s Student Center, where the project stakeholders were great in number and divergent in interests.

Relevant Project Experience

Liberty University Montview Student Union + Dining

Washington + Lee University John W. Elrod University Commons & Dining

Virginia Community College System Tidewater Community College Student Center

Virginia Theological Seminary Dining Renovation

Young Harris College Rollins Campus Center + Library

Chatham Hall Lecture + Dining Hall

Clarke County Schools Facilities Condition Survey Johnson-Williams Middle School Addition + Renovation

Louisa County Schools Facilities Study High School Expansion + Renovation Administration Building

New City Library New City, NY

North Cross School Middle School Master Plan Update

Orange County Public Schools High School Addition + Renovation

Piedmont Virginia Community College Adv. Technical Training + Student Center

Randolph Macon College McGraw-Page Library Renovation

Sweet Briar College Cochran Library Addition + Renovation

Town of Scottsville Canal Basin Square

University of Richmond Basketball Facility + Well-Being Center

Experience Professional Registration

Year Started Professional Practice: 1988 Year Started at VMDO: 1998

Education

Bachelor of Science in Architecture Virginia Polytechnic Institute + State University — 1987

Registered Architect: Virginia Memberships + Accreditations Founder, AIA-Central Virginia Women In Design Working Group Advisor, Virginia Society AIA’s Emerging Leaders Program

Virginia Tech Pritchard Residence Hall Renovation

Winchester Public Schools

John Handley High School Feasibility Study John Handley High School Addition + Renovation

Relevant Project Experience

Arlington County Lubber Run Park + Community Center

Arlington Public Schools Alice West Fleet Elementary School Cardinal Elementary School

Community in Hali’imaile, Maui Housing Development Standards*

Fuller Theological Seminary Hubbard Library Addition + Renovation* Worship Center + Teaching Laboratory Study*

George Washington University Thurston Residence Hall Renovation Mitchell Residence Hall Renovation

Michelle Amt AIA, LEED AP BD+C Associate Principal + Director of Sustainability

Michelle is a licensed architect with over twenty years of national and international experience covering a wide range of project types – from garden pavilions and academic, commercial, and industrial buildings to development frameworks and corporate guidelines. A golden thread that runs through her work is an unwavering commitment to creating meaningful, beautiful, and regenerative places for this and future generations.

As the firm’s Director of Sustainability, Michelle brings both high-level aspiration and real-life experience in delivering high performance spaces to all of VMDO’s projects. She works with clients and their design teams to establish project-specific principles, goals, and targets at the beginning of the process, and then provides continual support toward their realization in built form. In addition, Michelle leads the firm’s building systems and materials research efforts and VMDO’s own internal sustainability initiatives.

Michelle believes that sustainability is the foundation of design excellence, and that a robust sustainability agenda can deepen the connections between our buildings, their local and global communities, and the natural world.

Experience Professional Registration

Year Started Professional Practice: 1995

Year Started at VMDO: 2017

Education

Master of Architecture Princeton University, 1997

Bachelor of Science in Architecture University of Virginia — 1993

Registered Architect: Virginia, New York

Memberships + Accreditations

NCARB Certificate Holder

LEED AP Building Design + Construction, U.S. Green Building Council

WELL AP, International WELL Building Institute Fitwel Ambassador, Center for Active Design

IJburg Phase I Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment* NASA Sustainability Base at Ames Research Center*

Prince George’s County Marlow Heights Community Center

University of Florida Housing Master Plan

University of Miami Centennial Village

University of Virginia Student Health and Wellness Center

U.S. General Services Administration Peter W. Rodino Federal Office Building*

William & Mary Housing + Dining Master Plan

* completed with a previous firm

Writings

“The Thinking Person’s Guide to Climate Change” Catalyst Quarterly. Green sChools national network. winter 2018

“Living Buildings in Higher Education: The Future of Sustainability?” VMDo weBsite. 2018.

“Making All Buildings Solar-Ready: 7 Rules of Thumb” usGBC weBsite. 2018.

“Focusing on Impact and Transparency as Tools for Change” VMDo weBsite. 2018.

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For more information on Master Planning work please contact:

Joe Atkins atkins @ vmdo.com

Jim Kovach kovach @ vmdo.com