2025 Design & Master Plan - South Dakota State University

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Continuing to expand the quality and diversity of facilities and academic
space for students, faculty and staff will have a significant impact on the
university’s ability to meet the challenges of the next century. The 2025
Design and Master Plan supports facility master principles that include:
• Protecting historic buildings and open spaces;
• Extending and enhancing the character of campus through contextual
design of future buildings;
• Creating and promoting environments for learning, research and social
engagement;
• Promoting sustainability, environmental design and energy conservation;
• Planning for future facilities, considering the displacement of existing uses
and incorporating comprehensive operational costs;
• Supporting the strategic development of a pedestrian-friendly campus; and
• Integrating modern technology.
The 2025 Design and Master Plan builds on key guiding principles developed
in the 2025 Facility Master Plan and the 2002 Millennium Master Plan that
include:
• Maintaining existing functional districts that include academic facilities
concentrated within the pedestrian core of campus;
• Locating campus housing for first- and second-year students in the
southeast corner of campus in close proximity to student amenities
and support facilities, thus allowing for an on-campus upper-division
neighborhood to be developed in the northwest area of campus;
• Enhancing academic and functional zones, primarily in relation to
agricultural sciences, life and health sciences, visual and performing arts,
engineering, the academic core, and athletics; and
• In-filling existing campus footprint with new construction.
land use
Land use historically has been a major consideration in campus
development. The character of any campus is defined by the unique details
of its landscape, including campus greens, pedestrian corridors, gateways,
building placement and orientation, and public art. Each of these landscape
components leaves visitors with lasting impressions that define the university
image.
As previously stated, the 2025 Facility Master Plan design framework sets
the standard for transforming the existing core of campus. In addition to
working within the campus footprint, that plan also established a key guiding
principle of expanding and preserving campus green spaces through a series
of pedestrian corridors created by reducing or eliminating vehicle traffic in
the campus core. This principle addressed a goal of minimizing pedestrianvehicle
conflict.
The 2010 Parking Study confirmed this and concluded that it is imperative
to decrease the amount of parking in the center core of campus in order to
improve pedestrian safety and experiences. The findings of the parking study
show that parking can be removed successfully from the campus core and
consolidated along the outer edge of campus, while still providing adequate
campus parking within a reasonable distance from destinations throughout
campus. It is also, therefore, understood that the redistribution of parking will
serve as the primary catalyst for overall implementation of the 2025 Design
and Master Plan.
In addition, all new construction or major renovation projects must meet highperformance
green building standards — a silver rating under the United
States Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental
Design (LEED) rating system, and a two-globe rating under the Green
Building Initiative’s Green Globes rating system – in accordance with South
Dakota Codified Law 5-14-32, passed by the 2008 Legislature.
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