Gateway Village—Today

Provide faculty and staff with more recreational outdoor resources for collaboration and to strengthen a sense of community.

The existing arrival experience to the Lorman Campus has a unique character that can be enhanced with a few key moves.

Visibility of the Carter Dairy from ASU Drive is a challenge due to existing tree cover and a significant uphill slope. Enhanced landscaping and monumental signage could activate this slope, drawing the eyes of visitors toward the Welcome Center as they enter the campus.

The existing rows of mature trees at the campus entrance are an attractive landscape feature that contributes to the quality and character of the campus. The extension of this rhythm of trees into the campus core would reinforce ASU Drive as the main campus spine that connects different neighborhoods, with periodic breaks in the tree cover to preserve views across the grounds.

Alcorn State has a rich and unique landscape that can only be enhanced with a focus on infrastructure.

While the atrium at the Ecology Building is inviting and well-used for community gatherings, it is somewhat disconnected from surrounding areas of the campus. Creating new landscape and pedestrian connections between this event space and the new Welcome Center at the Carter Dairy would better support the function and character of both facilities.

Within the faculty housing village, overly exposed outdoor amenity spaces could be enhanced with more shelter and functionality for neighborhood residents.