Figure 11 Cal State Fullerton Physical Master Plan Area

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.

A focus on maximizing accessibility will help create a clear identity and a place of inclusion. Identity for a campus can include graphic and visual identity throughout the campus, to buildings and departments, and to site features, and also includes a sense of belonging and pride.

Provide/create sense of place

• A sense of pride and a desire to show off the work and culture; • Highlight the ties that bind the campus and the community, which could be exercised routinely and episodically in the course of an academic year; and • The landscape planting on the campus can be cohesive and support the learning needs of the academic programs. Improve connection at edges

• 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.

Improve wayfinding

• Campus pathways and building arrangements could be more intuitive to navigate. 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. Improve Transparency

• Break down the artificial barriers that hide the community members from each other; • Introduce features that will make campus more appealing to walk across; • More interest in the outdoor campus environment would get people out of their buildings. Emphasize Student-Centric not Car-Centric Movement

• 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; • Put sustainable building and landscape features on display; • Take advantage of California’s climate with a priority of Open

Space.

• Enhance pedestrian safety; • Improve connectivity and cohesion across campus. There is a social division between academic and athletic department; • Lack of designated bike lanes discourages bike use; • Students prefer to use their scooters, or walk. Improve Connection to remote parts of the campus