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The street travels up the stairway, joins the axis from the main building,
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The University of Pennsylvania campus. |
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This was part of our 1988-94 master plan study. It helped to define nodes
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Penn's open space system crosses and links its precincts. |
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Students coming to school in the morning: we took a sampling of their rosters
and plotted their trip from home to their first class. Their pathways bring
you near, but not to, the old center, which is under-used. |
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Continuing the Penn master plan, we mapped the distribution of classrooms
on campus and noticed the largest classroom building, Williams Hall, was
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We saw there were entrances or possible entrances off the central open space,
Houston Plaza, to all the buildings around it: to Irvine Auditorium, Houston
Hall--the original student union, too small now--College Hall, and Williams
Hall. With a little re-working of circulation, you could bring a lot of
movement into this area. We felt this should be the location of the new
student center. Reuse Houston Hall, occupy spaces off every doorway on Houston
Plaza, and you'll have a student center precinct. |
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The Perelman Quad on Wynn Commons. There are study areas off the main
entrance to Houston Hall and throughout the precinct, and there are activity
areas of different types to handle different needs. There is a big basement
cafeteria under the Commons and several coffee shops at the Commons level
including one in Irvine, where the auditorium has been adapted and preserved
and a small performance area added. These are all part of the new campus
center. You'll notice I'm not showing buildings, I'm showing a way of thought.
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Frist Hall at Princeton. We converted a staid classroom building into an
expansive campus center. Although it may not seem to be, this existing building
is located centrally on campus. Pedestrian circulation that runs beside
the building is pulled into and through it, to a big new entity at its center.
The "streets" through the building are narrow, like medieval alleys,
and lined with communication--graffiti. They lead to a large commons area
at the back, with a very big window that lights several floors of activity. |
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The site of the Conseil Général complex in Toulouse is
bounded by the Canal du Midi and an old traffic arterial. We designed a
pedestrian street to cross the site diagonally, giving access to government
agencies in the building, and providing a shortcut to an area of new development
beyond the site. We later found there had once been a street on the same
spot where we placed ours. The buildings that line the street contain generic,
administrative office spaces. At the center is the Salle de l'Assemblée,
a unique space. Bridges over the street link the wings. |
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Image of the University of Michigan from 1880, taken from JJ&R's Central
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The University of Michigan, as it started... |
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...and as it grew to be--a 3,000 acre campus stalking across the city of
Ann Arbor. The main campus and downtown sit cheek by jowl. Starting in 1997,
as the university's planners, we mapped the activities of town and gown
together to try to understand their shared patterns. The CBD and the main
campus look like two cells in mitosis. |
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Dale Fisher, published in Ann Arbor Visions of the Eagle, pp.58-59,
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Dale Fisher, published in Ann Arbor Visions of the Eagle, pp.58-59,
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The University of Michigan's north, medical, and main campuses.
Credit: Dale Fisher, published in Ann Arbor Visions of the Eagle,
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We showed how the University has expanded and discussed its options for
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More UM patterns. We disaggregated the land-use map into its various
components. Here are sciences crossing the campuses. |
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Classrooms, studios, and labs are shown by size and juxtaposed with commercial
uses to illustrate their relationship. |
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Via these maps we took a series of analytic cross-cuts through the data
then recombined some variables to see what we could learn. |
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The distribution of arts, performing arts, and museums. The linear pattern
of arts facilities, stretching from the campus into the town, is reminiscent
of the Zipf graph discussed above. We recommended there be a focus on the
arts within an axis running east-west from town to gown, then recommended
several sites, near the famous UM Diag but accessible to the medical center,
that would be suitable for laboratory buildings. At the Palmer Drive site,
life sciences can link with academic sciences on the main campus and with
research in the medical school. |
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