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Acknowledgements Table of Contents
The WVU Evansdale Master Plan was prepared by:
Strada Architecture, LLC; Michael Stern, principal,
Claudia Saladin, landscape architect
Sean Beasley, architect
Rob Dower, intern architect
www.stradallc.com
In collaboration with:
CJL Engineering: Jim Vizzini, managing partner,
Adam McKinley, Kris Rickabaugh, Mark Rosko,
and Frank Wilhelm (utility assessment: mechanical,
electric & plumbing)
GAI Consultants: Jeffrey Parobek (storm water management)
Desman Associates: Michael Connor, David Taxman
(parking & traffic)
Keri Allison, graphic designer
In addition the following departments and individuals from West Virginia University provided
invaluable input and support in preparing this plan.
Academic Affairs Administration
• Russell K. Dean,
Senior Associate Provost
Finance & Administration
• Narvel G. Weese,
Vice President, Administration & Finance
• Elizabeth P. Reynolds,
Associate Vice President for Planning
& Treasury Operations
• Joseph Fisher,
Senior Advisor to the VP of Finance & Administration
Associate VP Facilities Office
• Randal Hudak, Interim Associate Vice President
• Robert Moyer, Director
• Kimberly Hartsell, Manager Facilities Planning
Facilities Management
• Joseph Patten, Interim Assistant Vice President
• Daniel Olthaus, Director
Facilities management PDC
• John Thompson, Associate Director,
• Kevin Kilinsky, Construction Manager
• Scott Owen, Construction Manager
Facilities Management Maintenance
• Lisa Saurborn, Manager Engineering
• Steve Adams, Operations Manager
• George Hall, Operations Manager
Parking Management
• Hugh Kierig, Director
• Eric Rosie, Assistant Director
Environmental Health & Safety Office
• Kathy Powell, Associate Director
• Michael Trantham, Senior Program Administrator
• Brian Lemme, Environmental Health & Safety Specialist
Introduction .......................................................................................... 3
Historical Context and Place Making ..........................................3
Campus Place Making .................................................................. 4
The Planning Process: Place Precedents .......................................5
WVU Evansdale Campus Plan: Guiding Principles ................... 6
Analysis and Concept Diagrams ...........................................................7
WVU Evansdale Campus: Existing Conditions ......................... 8
Development Program ..................................................................9
Pedestrian Circulation ................................................................11
Vehicle Circulation .....................................................................13
Landscape Enhancements .......................................................... 15
Precinct Plans ....................................................................................... 17
Campus Precincts Map ............................................................... 18
Health & Wellness Precinct ........................................................19
Arts Precinct ................................................................................ 20
Engineering Precinct ................................................................... 21
Agriculture and Natural Resources Precinct .............................. 25
Residential Precinct ..................................................................... 27
Guidelines ............................................................................................ 29
Campus Building Guidelines ..................................................... 30
Site Guidelines ............................................................................ 34
Appendices
Parking Impact & Traffic Analysis
Utilities Assessment
Storm Water Management
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Early plans for the Evansdale Campus
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DOWNTOWN
CAMPUS
Photo credit: West Virginia and Regional History Collection, West Virginia University Libraries.
Photo credit: West Virginia and Regional History Collection, West Virginia University Libraries.
The Evansdale campus developed as
a series of isolated complexes along the
ridge line accessed by car.
Introduction:
HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND PLACE MAKING
Because Evansdale was developed at a very different time (the 1950’s and 60’s) than the Downtown
campus (late 19th – early 20th century), its planning reflects the shift from traditional to modernist
architecture and planning that characterized the post-war period in the United States. This conceptual
change is reflected in the series of historical images, which illustrate the radical transformation of
planning from a pedestrian, to a vehicular orientation.
The physical result of this was large, isolated projects like the Coliseum, the Engineering and
Agricultural Schools and the Evansdale Residential College that are functional islands and are so far
removed from each other that the only reasonable connections are vehicular. Infill development on
the campus over the years has still not achieved a level of density necessary to create a critical mass of
pedestrian activity, and the connections that do exist have not been enhanced to the level that they
actively encourage walking. Nor has the construction of a mass-transit system like the PRT resulted
in the development of a pedestrian precinct on the Evansdale campus, perhaps because it has largely
evolved into a parking shuttle system providing service to remote parking for the Downtown campus.
Because of this history of planning – and a generally utilitarian approach to architecture – Evansdale
at present suffers from a lack of a “sense of place’ that is in marked contrast to the Downtown
campus where a more traditional approach to planning and design has shaped a place-based campus
environment. But, what do we mean by “place-based” design?
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Percival completed
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Allen Hall and Coliseum completed
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PRT built, further dividing the
Evansdale Campus
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CAMPUS PLACE MAKING
A successful campus place results in the classic American university quadrangle, a blend of
architecture and landscape that is characterized by:
• An ensemble approach to building siting that uses buildings to shape and define outdoor spaces
for social or contemplative use
• Campus identity is defined as much by the collection of buildings as any single one
• The primary function of these outdoor spaces is pedestrian not vehicular
• Buildings are designed to foster interior and exterior connections between them
• Architectural style can be eclectic within a general set of humanistic principles that emphasize
human scale and proportion, natural materials and clearly defined entrances and organization
Within these overall goals of finding and reinforcing campus places, this master plan has three
primary goals:
• Develop a comprehensive development plan for the next 10 years of development on the
Evansdale campus, with a particular focus on the next 5 years, which is anticipated to be a
period of intensive development on the campus.
• Establish clear, but flexible design guidelines for the architecture and landscape associated with
this new wave of construction that will be consistent with the placemaking goals for the campus.
• Understand and organize the infrastructure needed to implement these new projects including
parking and transportation, utilities and stormwater management with a goal towards supporting
the sustainability goals of the university.
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Figural space of the Downtown
campus overlaid on Evansdale.
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1400’ - 10 MIN. WALK
Downtown campus-exterior spaces
UNIVERSITY AVENUE
More than four versions of the Downtown
campus would fit on Evansdale.
THE PLANNING PROCESS | PLACE PRECEDENTS
At the beginning of the planning process for the Evansdale campus there was extensive discussion
with the WVU planning team and leadership about architectural style and what is appropriate to
the university and specifically to Evansdale. But a visual and spatial analysis of the precedents found
on the WVU Downtown campus indicated that the issue relates less to architectural style and more
to the quality of place.
The fact is that the architecture of WVU Downtown is highly eclectic and variable in style, but much
more consistent in site planning and shaping exterior spaces that are interconnected. There is also
a consistent approach across most of the pre-WWII buildings, and even some of the later ones that
emphasizes humanistic scale, proportion and articulation. And more importantly, the buildings are
arranged and composed in a manner that creates habitable outdoor spaces for a variety of functions.
The end result is a strong and identifiable pedestrian campus, in spite of the large volumes of traffic
that can cause such headaches on University Avenue.
A scale comparison of the main figural space of the Downtown campus overlaid on the Evansdale
campus reveals, however, the vast difference between the two. More than four versions of the
Downtown campus would fit in the area of the Evansdale campus. This realization led to an approach
that looked for localized place making opportunities within different precincts of the overall campus,
interconnected by pedestrian passages.
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WVU EVANSDALE CAMPUS PLAN | GUIDING PRINCIPLES
• Establish a sense of place that reflects the history and character of West Virginia’s mountains,
rivers and forests.
• Focus on planning strategies that create a set of precincts and spatially defined outdoor
spaces, in order to create a set of linked pedestrian campus places with the character of
a traditional campus.
• Create a pedestrian core to the campus by pushing parking to the exterior of a ring road system.
• Build a vocabulary of academic architecture that expresses the solidity and importance of the
institution and creates a monumental presence for key buildings.
• Accept the architectural diversity of the existing buildings, but use new buildings
and renovations to advance humanistic design based in placemaking principles
and traditional architecture.
• Use durable, local and natural materials as much as possible for new building projects that draw
on local character and building techniques.
• Use elements of the local (topography, plants, water) and distant landscape views to unify
the campus.
• Develop sustainability goals for the campus that set high standards for building performance,
water management and sustainable landscapes.
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EXISTING CONDITIONS
Steep slopes
PRT
The first buildings on the Evansdale Campus developed along the high ground of the ridge.
The PRT was added in the 1970s and hugs the steep slopes to north of the ridge. Both the PRT
and the topography divide the campus into a lower and upper campus. This divide presents certain
challenges and opportunities in terms of creating and reinforcing campus places and creating
pedestrian places and connections on Evansdale.
Existing Buildings in the Study Area:
1. Coliseum
2. Creative Arts Center (CAC)
3. Museum Education Center
4. Facilities Management
5. Lincoln Hall
6. Evansdale Residential College (ERC)
7. Agricultural Sciences Annex
8. Allen Percival
9. Greenhouses
10. Agricultural Sciences Building (to be demolished)
11. South Agricultural Sciences Building
12. Evansdale Library
13. NRCCE
14. Engineering Research Building (ERB)
15. Engineering Sciences Building (ESB)
16. Mineral Resources Building (MRB)
17. Engineering PRT Station
18. Tower PRT Station
19. Blaney House (President’s Residence)
20. Communications Building (to be demolished)
21. former Saint Francis School (to be demolished)
22. PRT shop (to be relocated)
23. Student Recreation Center (SRC)
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DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM | PHASE 1
Phase 1
The impetus for the Evansdale Master Plan is the massive redevelopment effort being undertaken by
WVU over the next several years. Finding the synergies and relationships between these programmed
and funded projects is the focus of the planning efforts. The goal is to set planning and design
guidelines that will lead to a greater coherence within the Evansdale Campus. The two phases of the
master plan are defined by the currently funded projects – Phase 1 – and the anticipated and desired
building projects (but not yet funded) that will complete the plan – Phase 2.
Health & Wellness Precinct:
1. 2 soccer fields – one artificial and one natural turf
2. 5 tennis courts
3. Running and walking trail
4. Student Health Building – 80,000 gross square feet
5. CPASS building – 104,000 gross square feet
6. Parking
Arts Precinct:
7. Art Museum – 20,000 gross square feet
8. Student Center/Cross Campus Connector – 20,000 gross square feet – connected to the
Engineering PRT Station
9. Central Green – new stormwater management/park landscape
10. Renovated, signalized and expanded campus entrance at Patteson Drive
11. Intersection and pedestrian improvements at Evansdale Drive and Mon Boulevard, Evansdale
Drive and Fine Arts Drive and Mineral Resources building
Engineering Precinct:
12. Advance Engineering Research Building (AERB) – 114,000 gross square feet
13. Renovation of Evansdale Library to convert to Digital Library/Student Center
14. New landscaped quadrangles
15. Reorganized parking and service (Evansdale) drive
Agricultural Precinct:
16. New Agricultural Sciences Building – 250,000 gross square feet
17. New entry and façade for South Agricultural Sciences Building
18. Reconstructed greenhouse – 18,550 gross square feet
19. New greenhouse headhouse – 10,000 gross square feet
20. New quadrangles and gardens
21. Conversion of Evansdale Drive to service-only access
Residential Precinct:
22. Renovated ERC groundfloor to create Student Center
23. Conversion of Evansdale Drive to service-only access and accommodation of bus turnaround.
24. Pedestrian improvements to PRT underpasses at Ag Annex
25. Pedestrian underpass to new sports fields at Rawley Lane
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Phase 2
Health & Wellness Precinct:
1. Additional development site at the Patteson Drive entrance
2. Additional development site at the current site of Facilities Management
3. Relocated tennis and basketball courts.
Arts Precinct:
4. Parking structure and pedestrian bridge at Coliseum
Engineering Precinct:
5. Additional academic/research development site opposite the quad from the South Agricultural
Sciences Building.
Agricultural Precinct:
6. New entrance addition to Allen/Percival Hall
7. Pedestrianization of Evansdale Drive
Residential Precinct:
8. Additional academic/research building to complete the Residential quad.
9. Removal of Evansdale Drive.
10. Construction of service court. Access for service, emergency and maintenance vehicles only.
11. New quadrangle landscape.
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PEDESTRIAN CIRCULATION | PHASE 1 & 2
Phase 1
Pedestrian Places
Pedestrian Circulation Phase 1
Pedestrian Circulation Phase 2
1. Pedestrianize Evansdale Drive between ERC and the south end of the new Agricultural
Sciences Building. The reality is that during construction this portion of Evansdale Drive
will need to be closed during construction. This provides an opportunity to experiment with
pedestrianizing this portion of Evansdale Drive and creating pedestrian improvements along
the restricted portion of the roadway.
2. Enhance pedestrian spine on the upper campus.
3. Landscape and pedestrian enhancements to the engineering quad.
4. AERB Building sited to create a second engineering quad.
5. Agriculture building sited to provide a vertical connection between the lower agricultural
precinct and the engineering precinct on the top of the hill, by using the building as a major
campus circulation route. See section, next page.
6. Pedestrian underpass to the playing fields.
7. Enhance pedestrian connection between the Recreation Center and the new playing fields.
8. Redesign the ground floor of the ERC to connect to the landscape.
9. Enhance ponds and landscape to create a new Central Green for the campus.
10. Create a pedestrian connection between the upper and lower campus using the new
Cross-Campus Connector and the existing Engineering PRT station for vertical circulation,
including an elevator for ADA accessibility. See section, next page.
11. Move the access drive for the Student Recreation Center behind the new Cross-Campus
Connector Building, so that there is an unimpeded pedestrian connection between the Cross-
Campus Connector and the new Central Green.
12. Quad and garden.
Phase 2
13. Permanently close Evansdale Drive and create further pedestrian enhancements.
14. Create new quad adjacent to the ERC.
15. Use new academic building to provide ADA accessible pedestrian access from
ERC to the engineering campus.
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ERB EXISTING PRT BRIDGE OVER MEADOW
EXISTING ENGINEERING PRT STATION NEW PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE
OVER ACCESS DRIVE
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NEW CAMPUS CONNECTOR/
STUDENT CENTER
NEW UPPER ACADEMIC QUAD NEW AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES BUILDING NEW AGRICULTURE QUAD
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The Engineering Precinct is disconnected from the rest of the
Evansdale campus by over 50 feet of elevation change, steep
slopes and the PRT. New cross-campus connections will be
important unifiers of the campus and should be incorporated
into new building projects. Internal building circulation
(elevators) will also enhance accessibility across campus.
Cross-Campus
Connection at the
Engineering PRT
Cross-Campus
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VEHICLE CIRCULATION | PHASE 1
Improved Intersections
Pedestrian Places
Service, facilities and emergency vehicle access only
Vehicle Circulation
Transponder gates
1. Signalize intersection at Patteson and Fine Arts Drives to allow entrance to Evansdale
from both directions along Patteson. Create a major new entrance to campus with
landscape enhancements.
2. Realign exit from Coliseum parking to align with Evansdale Drive. Improve intersection
to eliminate by-pass lane and allow for full movement. Provide pedestrian cross walk.
3. Improve intersection of Evansdale Drive and Fine Arts Drive by narrowing intersection and
realigning Evansdale Drive to create better sight lines for both pedestrians and vehicles.
Make this intersection a 3-way stop to calm traffic.
4. Re-design intersection of Evansdale Drive and University Avenue to improve traffic movement
and enhance pedestrian safety. The right hand turn lane at the southeast corner of the intersection
should be abolished and a new pedestrian cross walk added closer to the corner. Realign southwest
corner of the intersection to better support buses turning into the ERC.
5. Realign bus turn around.
6. Close Rawley Lane.
7. Create a service access only road between facilities management and the new parking lot in the
Health & Wellness precinct.
8. Close Evansdale Drive to through traffic, by installing transponder gates where indicated.
Evansdale Drive would still be accessible for facilities maintenance, service and emergency
vehicles, but not for general traffic.
9. Create one-way loop for pick up and drop off traffic at ERC, including buses.
10. Consolidate parking next to buildings in the Engineering Precinct and move Evansdale Drive to
the outside. This provides for a more efficient parking layout and reduces the opportunities for
vehicle-pedestrian conflict.
11. Service access for AERB. This option removes service traffic entirely from the pedestrian quad.
Gates will limit access to authorized vehicles and prohibit unauthorized parking along this road.
See Engineering Precinct section for a more indepth analysis of the different Engineering Service Options.
12. Alternative service access for AERB. Gates would be required to limit access.
13. Move the access road for the SRC behind the new Cross-Campus Connector to reduce
pedestrian-vehicle conflict.
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Improved Intersections
Pedestrian Places
Service, facilities and emergency vehicle access only
Vehicle Circulation
Transponder gates
1. Permanently close Evansdale Drive. Provide further pedestrian enhancements. Leave pedestrian
walkway that can accommodate maintenance and emergency vehicles.
2. Provide service at back of new academic building, reusing the existing roadbed.
3. The new plaza in front of the new Agricultural Sciences Building creates a connection for service
and emergency vehicles between the walk in front of the Agricultural Sciences Building and the
service drive on the north side of the building.
4. Create new service access for Percival Allen, to remove this service access from the new quad.
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LANDSCAPE ENHANCEMENTS | EXISTING CONDITIONS
As part of an overall placemaking approach, the master plan creates different landscape types on
the campus that enhance the beauty of the campus, create special pedestrian places, and foster
connections across the campus. By using more native landscape types and materials, the landscape
plan can also help to evoke the landscape of West Virginia and address the stormwater impacts of the
university’s ambitious development program.
1. Slope Analysis
On some of the campus steep slopes, more native landscapes types will provide for greater
stormwater benefits, reduce erosion and provide greater beauty for the campus.
Less than 5%
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10 - 25%
Greater than 25%
2. Watershed Diagram:
The campus can be divided into a series of sub-watersheds, which either discharge along Patteson
Drive or Monongahela Boulevard. By increasing the amount of meadow and forest cover in
these subwatersheds, the university can help to offset increases in storm water run-off from
development.
Sub-watersheds
Water flow
Highpoint
3. Existing Landscape Types
The existing Evansdale campus is characterized by a largely undifferentiated landscape of mown
lawn with trees. This monotonous landscape fails to distinguish between different types of spaces
and to provide the kind of connections that encourage walking.
On some of the campus steep slopes, more native landscapes types will provide for greater
stormwater benefits, reduce erosion and provide greater beauty for the campus.
Remnant woodland
Designed landscape
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Lawn, garden, tended landscape
Meadow plantings
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Trees
Water Elements
1. Concentrate landscape resources – design, materials and maintenance – at placemaking
opportunities – the quads and entrances to campus.
2. Stop mowing steep slopes and instead convert slopes to native meadow and woodland plantings
that in the long term will require less maintenance and provide greater stormwater functionality.
By creating different types of landscape spaces, the landscape enhancements help to create a
hierarchy of space within the campus and provide structure to the spaces framed by buildings.
3. Conserve and restore remnant woodlands, including the woodland understory, in the Arts and
Health and Wellness Precincts as part of a new Central Green. The Central Green would be a
feature element of the new Evansdale Campus, connecting to the new Cross-Campus Connector
and the SRC.
4. As part of the new Central Green, renovate the existing ponds by the SRC to enhance the
aesthetics, as well as increasing the depth and aeration of the pools to provide stormwater quality
and quantity controls.
5. Daylight and renovate the existing drainage by the fields and new student health building
6. Create a pond and landscape at the entrance at Patteson and Fine Arts Drives. Connect the SRC
ponds and fields stream to the new ponds, creating a single point of discharge along Patteson.
7. To reduce runoff overall, but particularly from the engineering precinct toward Monongahela
Boulevard, consider using porous paving materials for new parking.
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HEALTH & WELLNESS PRECINCT
TOWERS
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RESOURCES PRECINCT
RESIDENTIAL PRECINCT
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1. New fields complex with running
and walking trail.
2. Student Health Buildings – 80,000
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3. CPASS building – 104,000 gross
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4. Parking
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5. Provide a limited access service road
between facilities management and
the new parking at Student Health/
CPASS. This would be available
only to facilities maintenance and
emergency vehicles and would be
secured with gates with transponders.
6. Close Rawley Lane.
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7. Enhance pedestrian connection
between the Recreation Center, the
new playing fields, and the Student
Health and CPASS buildings.
8. Student Center/Cross-Campus
Connector – 20,000 gross square feet.
This building creates a pedestrian
connection between the upper and
lower campus using the new Cross-
Campus Connector and the existing
Engineering PRT station for vertical
circulation, including an elevator for
ADA accessibility.
9. Move the access drive for the
Student Recreation Center behind
the new Student Center/Cross-
Campus Connector, so that there
is an unimpeded pedestrian
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provide stormwater functionality as
well as improve aesthetics. The flow
of stormwater would begin from the
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stormwater benefit and aesthetic
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at Patteson and Fine Arts Drive
connected to SRC ponds and the
stream by Student Health Building.
Provide one point of discharge for
stormwater along Patteson.
13. Enhance woodland planting and
restore understory planting around
ponds to create new Central Green.
14. Pedestrian improvements to PRT
underpasses at Towers PRT station.
15. Pedestrian underpass to new sports
fields at Rawley Lane.
16. Signalize intersection at Patteson and
Fine Arts Drives to allow entrance
to Evansdale from both directions
along Patteson. Create a major new
entrance to campus with landscape
enhancements.
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Arts Drives with parking. Given the
location of this building, it will be a
major entry piece for the Evansdale
Campus and would be a good
location for a building that has a
more public function. This building
incorporates a terrace that connects
to the new pond.
18. 4 additional tennis courts and two
additional basketball courts adjacent
to the SRC. These courts would
replace those that will be lost by
ERC in phase 2.
19. New building and parking to replace
the facilities management buildings.
Given its location at a major entry
to campus and near the Alumni
Center, it will be a major entry piece
for Evansdale and would be a good
location for a building that has a
public function.
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Phase 1
1. Art Museum – 20,000 gross square feet.
2. Student Center/Cross-Campus Connector – 20,000 gross square feet. This building creates
a pedestrian connection between the upper and lower campus using the new Cross-Campus
Connector and the existing Engineering PRT station for vertical circulation, including an
elevator for ADA accessibility.
3. Signalize intersection at Patteson and Fine Arts Drives to allow entrance to Evansdale
from both directions along Patteson. Create a major new entrance to campus with
landscape enhancements.
4. Realign exit from Coliseum parking to align with Evansdale Drive. Improve intersection
signalization, eliminate by-pass lane and allow for full movements. Provide pedestrian
cross-walk.
5. Improve intersection of Evansdale Drive and Fine Arts Drive by narrowing intersection
and realigning Evansdale Drive to create better sight line for both pedestrians and vehicles.
Make this intersection a 3-way stop to calm traffic.
6. Improve bus turn around at Mineral Resources Building to allow for a full size bus to turn
around and improve pedestrian movements.
7. Eliminate parking along Evansdale Drive the backs directly into traffic lane.
8. Redesign parking behind the CAC to provide a larger, more efficient parking lot. Eliminate the
driveway connecting this to Patteson Drive and provide access from the front of the CAC.
9. Tighten up the entrance to the CAC parking lot to Evansdale Drive to 24 feet to provide
for shorter pedestrian crossing distance and less impervious area.
10. Tighten up the entrance to the lot on Fine Arts Drive to 24 feet.
11. Add an additional bay of parking to the lot in front of the CAC.
12. Redesign landscape area in front of the CAC to be a gateway for WVU. Some portion
of this landscape would be an appropriate area for a raingarden.
13. Enhance woodland plants and restore understory planting along Patteson Drive, particularly
by new Art Museum.
14. Monument locations.
Phase 2
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1. AERB – 114,000 gross square feet,
sited to create a second engineering
quad.
2. Renovation of Evansdale Library
to convert to Digital Library/
Student Center.
3. Student Center/Cross-Campus
Connector – 20,000 gross square feet.
This building creates a pedestrian
connection between the upper and
lower campus using the new Cross-
Campus Connector and the existing
Engineering PRT station for vertical
circulation, including an elevator for
ADA accessibility.
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4. New entry to existing South
Agricultural Sciences Building to
provide entry from new quad and a
new façade
5. New quad and gardens.
6. New landscaped quadrangle.
7. Enhance existing engineering
quadrangle.
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8. Improve bus turn around at Mineral
Resources Building to allow for a full
size bus to turn around and improve
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9. Consolidate parking next to buildings
in the Engineering Precinct and move
Evansdale Drive to the outside. This
provides for a more efficient parking
layout and reduces the opportunities
for vehicle-pedestrian conflict.
Consider utilizing porous pavers for
new parking. Parking should include
a 10 foot planted bioretention area
between parking and roadway. Planted
islands in the parking should be
bioretention areas.
10. Eliminate parking along Evansdale
Drive that backs directly into
traffic lane.
11. Enhance pedestrian spine on the
upper campus
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12a. AERB service access option 1 –
see discussion on following pages.
12b. AERB service access option 2 –
Phase 2
see discussion on following pages.
13. New academic building, serviced
by same roadway as AERB.
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Evansdale Library
OPTION 2
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Location Of South Agricultural
Sciences Building
South Agricultural
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ENGINEERING | SERVICE OPTIONS
1. Loading at the existing Agricultural Sciences Building is one level below the main pedestrian entry
from the campus, as can be seen in the historic photo. Access to this loading area will need to
preserved during phase 1 construction, as the existing Agricultural Sciences Building will remain
in use until the new one is completed.
2. The main entry of the existing agricultural sciences building is at the level of the existing and
future academic quad. Entrances to the new academic buildings that make up the new upper quad,
including the new Agricultural Sciences Building and the AERB will be at this level.
3. When the South Agricultural Sciences building was added, its loading was adjacent to the loading
dock for the main Agricultural Sciences Building at the same level. This is the lower level of
the South Agricultural Sciences building. Access to this loading area at the lower level must be
preserved in future phases.
4. The South Agricultural Sciences building will need a new entry at its upper level
from the new quad.
There are two options for providing service access the new AERB.
• Option 1 – Reusing the existing service area and roadbed behind current Agricultural
Sciences Building.
• Option 2 – Bring the service through the parking lot, across the academic quad.
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Proposed plan
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Demolition plan.
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SECTION AT NEW AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE CONNECTION
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ENGINEERING | SERVICE OPTION 1
1. Existing Agricultural Sciences Building to be demolished after completion of the new
Agricultural Sciences Building.
2. Existing parking and service road behind existing Agricultural Sciences Building. Access to existing
service docks needs to be maintained until new Agricultrual Sciences Building is compelted.
3. Existing grade.
4. Pedestrian bridge over service drive.
5. Grade at center of new Agricultural Sciences Plaza.
6. Grade adjacent to building.
7. Existing Agricultural Sciences Building loading dock.
8. Existing South Agricultural Sciences Building to remain. Loading access on lower level
to be maintained.
9. New entrance onto upper academic quad will be on upper level of the
South Agricltural Sciences Building.
10. Proposed new service drive.
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Demolition plan.
Hatched areas
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SECTION AT NEW AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE CONNECTION
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ENGINEERING | SERVICE OPTION 2
1. Existing Agricultural Sciences Building to be demolished after completion of the new
Agricultural Sciences Building.
2. Existng parking and service road behind existing Agricultural Sciences Building. Access to existing
service docks needs to be maintained until new Agricultrual Science Building is compelted.
3. Existing grade.
4. Service Drive through academic quad.
5. Grade at center of new Agricultural Sciences Plaza.
6. Grade adjacent to building.
7. Existing Agricultural Sciences Building loading dock.
8. Existing South Agricultural Sciences Building to remain. Loading access on lower level
to be maintained.
9. New entrance onto upper academic quad will be on upper level of the South Agricltural
Sciences Building.
10. Bring up grade against new Agricultural Sciences Building to created a connection to the new
upper academic quad.
11. Access to South Agricultural Sciences loading dock needs to be maintained.
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AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES | PRECINCT PLAN
Phase 1
1. New Agricultural Science building – 250,000 gross square feet, with new quadrangle.
Agricultural sciences building provides ADA accessible pedestrian circulation to the
upper campus.
2. New façade on the existing South Agricultural Sciences Building. This would include a new
entrance on the north side of the building to the new quad at the upper level of the building.
3. Existing service to the South Agricultural Sciences Building at the lower level to be
maintained.
4. Pedestrian bridge connecting new Agricultural Sciences Building to agricultural quad
over service drive – see discussion on previous pages.
5. New quadrangles.
6. Reconstructed greenhouse – 18,550 gross square feet.
7. Consolidate parking adjacent to green house, consider using porous surface for new areas.
8. New greenhouse headhouse – 10,000 gross square feet.
9. Pedestrianize Evansdale Drive between ERC and the south end of the new Agricultural
Sciences Building. The reality is that during construction this portion of Evansdale Drive
will need to be closed during construction. This provides an opportunity to experiment with
pedestrianizing this portion of Evansdale Drive and creating pedestrian improvements along
the restricted portion of the roadway. Provide a turn-around at the south side of the closure.
Provide gates with transponder to restrict unauthorized access.
10. Remove water tower and expand parking lot next to President’s house. Consider using porous
paving for new paved areas. Supplement planting on slope to address stormwater runoff.
11. Convert steep slopes to a mix of meadow and woodland planting.
12. Provide planted bioswales in new parking and consider using porous paving in parking stalls.
13. Provide service access at north and south sides of new Agricultural Sciences Building.
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AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES | PRECINCT PLAN
Phase 2
14. New academic building, serviced by same roadway as AERB.
15. Evansdale Drive closed completely and fully pedestrianized, although still accessible
to emergency and maintenance vehicles.
16. New Entry for Allen/Percival creating a new plaza (18).
17. New academic building, served from the back. This building will also provide an ADA
accessible pedestrian connection to the new plaza (18).
18. New plaza provides a pedestrian connection point between Allen Percival, the new Phase 2
building (17), and the new Agricultural Sciences Building. It will also provide a connection
point between service drive and fully pedestrianized Evansdale Drive, for maintenance and
emergency vehicles that may require access.
19. New service drive for Allen/Percival.
20. Existing electric transformers and steam demark to remain.
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Hatched areas show
elements to
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RESIDENTIAL | PRECINCT PLAN
Phase 1
1. Re-design intersection of Evansdale Drive and University Avenue to improve traffic movement
and enhance pedestrian safety. The right hand turn lane at the southeast corner of the
intersection should be abolished and a new pedestrian cross walk added closer to the corner.
Realign southwest corner of the intersection to better support buses turning into the ERC.
2. Renovate ERC ground floor to create Student Center, connected to the landscape.
3. Conversion of Evansdale Drive to service-only access.
4. Pedestrian improvements to PRT underpasses at Towers PRT.
5. Pedestrian underpass to new sports fields at Rawley Lane.
6. Create one-way loop for pick up and drop off traffic at ERC, including buses.
7. Facilities and emergency vehicle access only between Facilities Management and health
and wellness precinct parking lots.
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Phase 2
8. Eliminate Evansdale Drive entirely.
9. New academic building.
10. New residential quadrangle.
11. Provide service and emergency access behind new academic building, connecting to pedestrian
walk in front of the new Agricultural Sciences building.
12. ADA accessible pedestrian circulation through the proposed building.
13. New access drive to Allen/Percival, separated from the new quad both by grade change
and by dense tree planting on the slope.
14. New building at corner of University Avenue and Evansdale Drive with parking.
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