2006 USI Master Plan Update

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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA
2006 Master Plan Update
The Campus Studio
Jim Christman
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2005 Master Plan Goals

• 1. Guide the transition from a commuter campus
• to a residential campus
• 2. Communicate the physical impacts resulting
  from increasing student enrollments from 10,000
  to 20,000
• 3. Define a parking strategy that incorporates
  parking structure siting opportunities
• 4. Identify sites for a number of new
  facilities
• (business school, housing, performing arts
  etc.)
• 5. Make the campus more student friendly
• (malls and pedestrian linkages)
• 6. Refine the proposed road corridors including
  a residential loop road, dam crossing and
  boulevard relocation option

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Environmental Concerns

• Protect unique natural features
• major ravines, rock outcroppings and
• beech forest
• 2. Wooded steep banks should not be
• developed
• 3. Use pedestrian bridges to span the ravines

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Environmental Corridors
Upper Plateau Highly Developable
Typically 3 to 4 Stories
Bridging for Major Corridors

• Side slopes are fragil areas
• Steep slopeslt 45
• Mature hardwoods
• Rock out copings
• Creeks and drainage ways

Ravine Walk
Flat Floor Often Wetland or Flood Plain
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Academic Core
1. Building Placement
- Conveys total build out - Maintain the grid
configuration - Infill the core is a priority -
Clusters or neighborhoods - Accommodate growth
to the southeast
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Academic Core
1. Building Placement2. Integrated
Housing
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Academic Core
1. Building Placement 2. Integrated Housing 3.
Comprehensive Open Space
- Bring natural plantings onto campus
- Celebrate central open space
- Create a new formal quadrangle
- Establish neighborhood spaces
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Academic Core
1. Building Placement 2. Integrated Housing 3.
Comprehensive Open Space 4. Pedestrian Corridors
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Academic Core
1. Building Placement 2. Integrated Housing 3.
Comprehensive Open Space 4. Pedestrian
Corridors 5. Campus Entry and Loop Road -
Round about increases capacity - Loop
road
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Academic Core
1. Building Placement 2. Integrated Housing 3.
Comprehensive Open Space 4. Pedestrian
Corridors 5. Campus Entry and Loop Road 6.
Proposed Parking - 1 minor deck (400
spaces) - 3 major decks (1,000 spaces
each) - Major surface lots
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Northeast Quadrant
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• 1. Create Schutte campus entry
• Remove obsolete housing and
• build a student oriented
• commercial center
• 3. Upgrade Schutte Rd into a
• campus drive and create a new
• south connector road
• 4. Relocate Physical Plant and
• access it from Schutte Rd
• 5. Retain existing recreation field

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Southern Quadrant
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Southern Quadrant

• Athletic Center
• Varsity Baseball
• Varsity Soccer
• Practice Soccer
• Rugby/Recreation
• Recreation
• Softball (3)
• 6. Varsity Softball
• 7. Disk Golf Course
• 8. Tennis Courts (5 1)
• 9. Track and Field
• 10. Multipurpose
• recreation fields (4)
• Indoor Practice
• Cross Country

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Density Targets

• Existing Conditions
• Campus Population
  11,660 people (10,050 students/1610 faculty
  staff)
• Building Capacity
  15 buildings 1.75 million gross sq feet
• Parking Spaces
  6,500 spaces (1space/412 gsf or 1
  space/2.7 people)
• with 4250 spaces in the Academic
  Core (65 of total)
• Level 1 Enrollment 13,115 (30)
• Campus Population
  15,158 people (3,065 students/2093 faculty
  staff)
• Building Capacity
  2.27 million gross sq feet (520,000 gsf)
• Parking Spaces
  8450 spaces (1,950) with 5,493 core
  spaces
• Level 2 Enrollment 15,074 ( 50)
• Campus Population
  17,490 people (3,015 students/817 faculty
  staff)
• Building Capacity
  2.625 million gross sq feet (875,000 gsf)
• Parking Spaces
  9,750 spaces (3,150)
• Level 3 Enrollment 20,100 ( 100)
• Campus Population
  23,320 people (10,050 students/1610 faculty
  staff)
• Building Capacity
  3.5 million gross sq feet (1.75 million
  gsf)

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Growth Scenarios
Existing enrollment 10,050 1.75 m gsf 6,500
parking spaces
Enrollment 13,115 (30 Increase) 2.27 m gsf total
( 525,000 gsf) 8,450 parking spaces Enrollment
15,074 (50 Increase) 2.63 m gsf total ( 350,000
gsf) 9,750 parking spaces Enrollment 20,100
(100 Increase) 3.5 m gsf total ( 875,000
gsf) 13,000 parking spaces
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Walking Distance
10 minute walk distance is acceptable

Shuttle Bus
Deck
University Center

5 minute
15 minute
10 minute
Shuttle Bus
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Summary

• Reconfigure Main Entry
• Realign Loop Road
• Second campus entry at Schutte
• Create academic neighborhoods
• Infill and expand the academic core
• Include residential uses within
• the core
• 6. Concentrate recreation and
• athletic facilities to the south
• Expand the residential area
• in the northeast quadrant
• Add a student commercial services
• area at the Schutte entry
• 9. Shuttle students from remote lots

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10 Year Capital Plan
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Loop Road
Section 2
Section C
Section D
Section G
Section 4
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