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Originally Posted by Ottawan
Carleton University recently released their draft campus plan. There really is alot of good in it (although as a History grad it will be sad to say goodbye to Paterson Hall). It's rather long, but interesting, and I recommend looking at it when you have half an hour to spare:
http://www.carleton.ca/campusplan/do...-20_Forums.pdf |
Carleton reviews recommendation for campus facelift
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Carleto...522/story.html
BY JOANNE LAUCIUS, THE OTTAWA CITIZENJANUARY 26, 2010 6:47 PMBE THE FIRST TO POST A COMMENT
OTTAWA — Carleton University is reviewing a recommendation for a major facelift to some of the key landmarks on campus including the Macodrum Library and the Dunton Tower.
The school’s updated master plan, produced by Toronto-based architects and planners du Toit Allsopp Hillier, also urges the replacement of Paterson Hall. It was to be presented to Carleton’s board of governors on Wednesday.
Among the options:
• rework the bottom three floors of Dunton Tower to improve frontage on the main quad.
• the campus community has “a poor opinion” of the exterior of the main library says the plan, which recommends creating a new facade on the quad and creating an addition to “hide an eyesore” of the loading dock and create more space.
• Paterson Hall and the Life Sciences Research Building are on valuable riverfront, says the plan. Replacing them would increase academic space and create a “dramatic reorientation” of the campus to the Rideau River. This would be achieved by creating a long green courtyard with garden terraces flanked by buildings and leading to the river.
• create a tree-lined sidewalk along the length of Bronson Avenue. The Bronson boundary “needs greater pedestrian emphasis” says the plan.
• improve “functional and aesthetic quality” for landscapes and buildings. “Building design will favour architectural interest and life-cycle costing over the simple provision of space at low capital cost.”
• parking will be increasingly under cover, but there will be fewer spaces as the university seeks to increase transit use and car pooling.
• emphasize “consolidation over expansion” by renovating, adding to buildings and infill development.
• the master plan doesn’t give up on the idea of a covered station for rail transit. The plan notes that a city initiative to twin-track the service “may enable construction of a combined academic building an covered station, providing climate controlled cross-platform and cross-campus connection.”
The master plan, updated every five years, paints in broad strokes options and principles for developing the campus. For example pedestrians are to take precedence, followed by cyclists, transit and then cars and trucks. It suggests academic, communal and support facilities should be located within a 10-minute diameter walking circle of 750 metres.
The projects have not been prioritized, nor has money has been earmarked for them. However, the most recent plan, approved in January 2004, outlined proposals for 14 potential sites. Six years later, half of these remain. Projects that have been completed since 2004 include a major retrofit of the University Centre and a new residence, Frontenac House, said Anne Richards, assistant director of space management and capital planning.
As well, two buildings under construction, the so-called “canal building’ and “river building” will give the campus a new waterfront face. A request for proposal has also been put out for refacing the main library on the quad, she said.
“This plan is for the next 50-plus year,” said Richards. “The time frame will be dictated by available funding and academic requirements.”
One of the questions posed by the previous master plan in 2004 was whether the principle governing height should be amended from mid to high-rise buildings because it appeared the campus would would soon run out of development capacity.
The new plan says if each new site is limited to five or six floors for the majority of buildings and the campus is developed at that density, it would double existing space. If the residences were developed to six or eight stories, it would also more than double the existing 2,800 residence spaces.
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