IDENTITY The University as a whole and its individual colleges seek to create an identity. Especially in a climate like Orange County, there are opportunities to blur the boundaries between inside and out to create a beginning or “front porch” for each college facility to reflect academic, social, physical, and cultural activities within.
Improve connection between indoor and outdoor • Explore changes to ground floors of buildings, hallways, and classrooms configuration to support visual transparency into activities with building and vice versa; • To support informal learning, there is an interest in any site art reflecting STEM students and topics.
• There is a general lack of awareness of the size and distribution of enrollment across the colleges; • There is a desire to create meaningful relationships as manifested by adjacencies and collaboration; • Increase access to power plugs, appropriate furniture, and wi-fi;
A focus on maximizing accessibility • Put sustainable building and landscape features on display; will help create a clear identity and a place of inclusion. Identity for a • Take advantage of California’s campus can include graphic and visual Improve Transparency climate with a priority of Open identity throughout the campus, to Space. • Break down the artificial barriers buildings and departments, and to that hide the community members site features, and also includes a sense from each other; of belonging and pride. • Introduce features that will make campus more appealing to walk Provide/create sense of place across; • A sense of pride and a desire to • More interest in the outdoor show off the work and culture; campus environment would get people out of their buildings. • Highlight the ties that bind the campus and the community, which Emphasize Student-Centric not could be exercised routinely and Car-Centric Movement episodically in the course of an academic year; and • Enhance pedestrian safety; • The landscape planting on the campus can be cohesive and support the learning needs of the academic programs.
• Improve connectivity and cohesion across campus. There is a social division between academic and athletic department;
Improve connection at edges
• Lack of designated bike lanes discourages bike use;
• Create better physical connections to provide safe travel to events from off campus and provisions for evening campus use; and • The Arboretum facilities must be updated and be made more effective for tomorrow’s needs.
• Students prefer to use their scooters, or walk.
Improve Connection to remote parts of the campus
Improve wayfinding • Campus pathways and building arrangements could be more intuitive to navigate.
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