CAMPUS PLANNING - Roger Williams University

2002-2003 RWU Presidential Fellowship Report: Campus Planning
• Identify / Test Strategies
• Develop Alternatives
• Choose Direction
• Develop Final Plan
• Develop Guidelines
In order to assist in this process, a number of exercises
where undertaken which allowed the students to explore the
entire range of scalar relationships. We started with a series
of loose collage exercises that allowed the students to gain
an intuitive understanding of the structure of the campus.
The strategies that emerged where tested and developed at
a schematic level. Thirty studies were reduced to three
basic strategies with variations. Precinct plans were then
developed to test strategies and explore alternatives at a
scale between that of the individual building and that of the
Campus. These studies then informed the testing, selection
and development of two final schemes. This movement
between scales and modes of investigation was critical to
the development of the final plans.
institutional memory and values. The particular demands of
the end users, of facilities or other imbedded interests must
be in dialogue with the established principles shaping the
whole. At the most mundane level the implementation
phase involves the following:
• Establish project committees (sub-committees)
• Develop Precinct Plans
• Review Building and Landscape Design Proposals:
- Review Programming
- Design Process: Concepts, Schematic Design,
Design Development, Final Documentation
• Manage Costs
6. Implementation
Continuity of process allows for continuity of the built
environment. The Campus should not be viewed as a
collection of disparate projects, but as “The Project” with a
series of interdependent pieces, each of which answers to
the whole. This requires communication and shared
understanding among the various parties participating in
the shaping of this larger environment. The “design
authority” is instrumental in the communication of
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