The campus framework plan (developed by Ricardo and Gregory at their previous firm) identified several initiatives that this liberal arts campus in central Michigan should focus on. The re-conception of the library to create a clear and distinguished heart of campus was an important recommendation o...
The Auburn Research and Technology Foundation asked DumontJanks to help develop a research park master plan to accommodate future growth. The research parcel was one of three evolving land uses on the south end of the main campus along South Donahue Drive: the research “park” proper, arts uses inclu...
As Auburn University’s College of Agriculture prepared to demolish and replace their largest 1970s-built academic building, they paused to determine the college’s optimal future geography, in both near- and long-term time frames. To help them develop criteria and scenarios, we analyzed current space...
Bates Walk is illustrative of the transformative power of a thoughtful landscape in the American campus. Two iconic campus places, the Mount and the Pine Grove, existed beyond the ends of the proposed walk. Both of these wonderful places have handsome mixed groves of white pine and canoe birch. The...
The Bentley University Academic Space Plan provides data analytics, establishes space management policies, and prioritizes specific investments within the university’s 10-year facility plan. Scenarios evolved from a rigorous understanding of current space use practices and, driven by an interest in...
BJC Healthcare, in conjunction with Washington University Medical Center and St. Louis Children’s Hospital, held an international competition for a vision plan to establish a direction for their collective future. Our inter-disciplinary team included Foster+Partners as signature architects and Stant...
The Boston 2024 Olympic bid proposed bold urban design and landscape strategies to bring new life to neighborhoods that need modern recreational facilities and vibrant open spaces. The core idea of the post-games transformation of event venues into dynamic, efficient, and flexible athletic and recre...
DumontJanks has led a multi-year collaborative planning effort to transform a former military base outside Boston into a vibrant urban neighborhood. The plan is rooted in the site’s natural ecology, restoring the historic stream as a unifying feature that connects wetlands north and south of the pro...
DUMONTJANKS was engaged by Brandeis University to lead a comprehensive Campus Entry and Circulation Study aimed at strengthening campus identity, clarifying mobility patterns, and enhancing the visitor arrival experience. The study focused on the South Street gateway, the campus loop road, and the A...
As a key component of its strategic plan, Brown University's framework for physical planning required an in-depth understanding of the university's academic mission. Brown is famous both for its open curriculum in which undergraduates have great freedom of choice and the collaborative nature of its...
After completing a framework plan with Brown University, we explored several arts studies. A main premise of the framework was to enhance interdisciplinary collaboration on campus, and in this initiative we explored a detailed arts district consolidation of the performing, music, and visual arts in...
Following the Cleveland Midtown District Study, this phase focuses on housing development within the Dunham District, situated between Euclid and Chester Avenues. This strategic location is positioned to create a residential neighborhood anchored by generous public green space and directly adjacent...
The Cleveland Foundation, a non-profit philanthropic foundation for community development and grantmaking, asked DumontJanks to lead a visioning effort for the Midtown District of Cleveland. The district lies at the midpoint between Cleveland’s downtown core and University Circle, home to Case Weste...
We were asked by university leadership and the project architects, CannonDesign, to place a new recreation building on the hills of the existing campus. The adjacent historic orthogonal campus dramatically steps up to the hills using a series of bold terraces. The site for the project is the highest...
We joined with our associated architects to prepare ideas expanding a small existing American-based campus on the humid shore of the Red Sea. DumontJanks was responsible for validating the academic program given the university’s overseas mission; considering square footage needs for academic, reside...
We collaborated with Dalton State College on a master plan update with the intent of establishing a capital investment strategy. The study required the development of potential project scenarios with planning-level design configuration and square footages, the prioritization and planning level cost...
DumontJanks was asked by RMS Investment Group to investigate an investment and development opportunity in a downtown Denver former warehouse district next to a diverse, historic, mixed-income, bungalow neighborhood. The current warehouse buildings are occupied by start-up companies, non-profits (wit...
Emerson College is the only four-year college devoted exclusively to the study of communication and performing arts in the United States. It occupies prime real estate on Boston Common. The college is space constrained; our analysis showed investment needs in instructional and social space. The mast...
Florida Atlantic University is a public research university in southeast Florida with an enrollment of over 30,000 students. The university’s primary location is an 850-acre site in Boca Raton with satellite campuses in Dania Beach, Davie, Fort Lauderdale, Harbor Branch, and Jupiter. Given increasin...
The Fordham University residential district integrates architecture and landscape that completes the main residential enclave adjacent to the historic entry to the Bronx campus. The landscape serves to unite the new and old, interior and exterior, multiple entries, and resurrects the historic Edgar...
The site is one of the original farms in Lexington, Massachusetts. It is the setting for a serene composition of the original house, new for-rent cottages, and separate studios for textiles and woodworking. The building composition is one of historic forms, simple flat roof structures, and oversized...
Fort Valley State University is a public land-grant institution (one of only two in the state) and historically black university located in central Georgia. The university has experienced a period of significant capital underinvestment in its buildings and as a result, many of their buildings have s...
DumontJanks was honored to lead a collaboration with George Mason University on the development of a campus master plan. Mason is a complex university with over 37,000 students and an emphasis on student success in support of a diverse student body and its growing stature as a research institution.
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Our successful master plan for Georgetown University has led to multiple projects unifying the stunning hilltop campus while introduci...
We are working with Georgetown University to create a strategic academic plan. We facilitated a series of stakeholder presentations and discussions aimed at cross-university idea generation and the formulation of resource allocation scenarios to support strategy. The first series of conversations wa...
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Georgia Southern University, a public research institution headquartered in Statesboro, Georgia, serves over 26,000 students across three primary campuses in the southeast of the state. With a strong focus on student success, academic excellence, and research innovation, the university offers a wide...
DumontJanks, with Ennead and Lord Aeck Sargent, led the creation of a comprehensive ten-year plan for the expansion of Georgia Tech’s “Tech Square” — an innovation hub at the heart of Midtown Atlanta. The plan treats Tech Square as an extension of the core campus, bridging the interstate to connect...
The islands and peninsulas off the northern coast of Maine are iconic waterfront environments. They offer both stunning historic waterfront communities in transition and long stretches of more solitary, contemplative environments where the sea meets the stunning granite geology of eastern Maine.
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The Harvard Kennedy School framework plan provides a vision for growth and renewal. The vision evolved from the school's strategic objectives: to attract the very best leaders; to transform the educational experience so that students can drive positive change; and to generate powerful ideas that add...
We collaborated with Johns Hopkins University on an in-depth study for residential life, student life, and retail for the Homewood campus. The plan provided an integrated strategy that maximizes site opportunities, capitalizes on existing buildings and infrastructure, reinforces the campus’ urban at...
Keene State College’s campus master plan is a comprehensive framework for a more sustainable, connected, and student-focused future. Shaped through broad community engagement and grounded in detailed analysis, the plan responds to key challenges—aging infrastructure, shifting student needs, and regi...
The University System of Georgia is at the forefront of national efforts to meet the most pressing challenges of higher education. They have launched several major initiatives with the goal of improving efficiency without compromising access to high-quality education, the state’s world class researc...
Our workspace is on the ground floor of an old office building next to the Chinatown gate in downtown Boston (read the Globe's writeup of our building ). When we found the space, it held tremendous promise, but needed to be reimagined. The western exposure had been bricked-in, hiding the original be...
The arts district master plan for the High Mountain campus of Utah State University envisioned a phased composition that integrates visual and fine arts and an expanded museum program with regeneration and performing arts academic programs and performance venues. The district’s initial project, a 45...
Mayo Clinic is a world-wide leader in medical care, teaching, and research. Its Arizona campus serves thousands of people from around the world each year. The clinic’s original Arizona presence began in Scottsdale, but moved to a 210-acre Phoenix campus in the 1980s because of concerns the Scottsdal...
Our framework for the MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and academic medical center, focused on the creation of clinical expansion opportunities within a highly constrained urban setting and an extremely challenging regulatory environment while also enabling the longer-term creation of a true l...
The facilities strategic plan drew on broad program-based rationales for the core campus and affiliated outlying research stations, and included physical ideas/concepts and phasing strategies. The plan is program driven and enhances and reinforces the college’s research, education, and outreach foci...
This former hotel site is situated by the harbor on two acres in the heart of Nantucket. Our work reimagines it as a tight residential district. Careful analysis of zoning regulations allowed us to create thirteen lots where only five were previously thought possible, maximizing potential value for...
The College of Veterinary Medicine Master Plan provides a data-informed framework to align the campus with the college’s strategic vision. Developed in response to state mandates, the plan addresses an 18% increase in enrollment and the addition of 44 faculty and staff, while modernizing aging facil...
Our detailed study of The Ohio State University’s health sciences district focused on applying a “one patient” philosophy to the academic medical center’s educational, research, and clinical missions. The goal was to integrate these missions across the various health science colleges, including medi...
The Ohio State University proposed a bold vision to house all first-year and sophomore students on campus. This required potentially adding up to 4,000 beds, and we explored multiple scenarios in support of this vision. The scenarios revealed the importance of reinforcing the university’s three exis...
The One Ohio State University Framework Plan identified revitalization of on-campus residential life as a core principle. Rather than conceive of a new residential district, the university pursued a reinvestment strategy in the three existing residential enclaves surrounding the academic core. These...
The One Ohio State Framework Plan is a dynamic structure for guiding change in the physical environment at one of the nation’s largest public research universities. It supports, and helped establish the viability of, Ohio State’s strategic “Discovery Themes”: a trans-disciplinary vision where divers...
Plymouth State University’s campus master plan establishes a clear, strategic framework to guide the university’s long-term physical evolution. Anchored in the university’s commitment to its innovative cluster model, the plan emphasizes financial and capital sustainability, an enriched student exper...
DumontJanks worked with Delaware North Development, our friends at Elkus Manfredi Architects, and Princeton University to plan a new residential, mixed use, and research district as part of Princeton’s long-range plan for the Princeton Forrestal Campus which sits across the lake from the historic ca...
Residential life is a critical component of the student experience at Purdue University, but at the time of our study, the large percentage of older residence halls posed significant questions on appropriate reinvestment. The university also struggled to retain upper-class students. We therefore wor...
The Purdue University System is one of the largest in the country, with over 75,000 students attending multiple campuses. Our planning work covered the flagship campus in West Lafayette, and three regional campuses, Calumet, North Central, and Fort Wayne. Each campus has a unique identity and missio...
The Purdue University Framework Plan outlined a bold set of principles to guide campus growth and regeneration for the next era in the campus’s stunning land grant history. A key priority was to define and enliven the Third Street corridor that accommodates heavy student pedestrian traffic between t...
This stunning residential space in the heart of historic Rice University added new residential density and ground floor student life uses such as group work spaces and a café. To complement this reinvestment, the university removed a city street and concrete walks, replacing them with a connective s...
The Sacred Heart University master plan envisioned bold transformation and growth, transforming this former commuter school into a vibrant residential campus. Three initial projects created new buildings and powerful associated landscapes: the chapel and main quadrangle, the gallery student center,...
The Sacred Heart University master plan envisioned bold transformation and growth, transforming this former commuter school into a vibrant residential campus. Three initial projects created new buildings and powerful associated landscapes: the chapel and main quadrangle, the gallery student center,...
The Sacred Heart University master plan envisioned bold transformation and growth, transforming this former commuter school into a vibrant residential campus. Three initial projects created new buildings and powerful associated landscapes: the chapel and main quadrangle, the gallery student center,...
Slippery Rock University sits in the strong hill and valley country of Western Pennsylvania. The new student center occupies one of the university's high plateaus. The long building form stretches into the adjoining landscape, forming three distinct exterior horizontal terraces: an Entry Terrace, th...
Slippery Rock University is a four-year, public, coeducational, comprehensive university offering a broad array of undergraduate and select graduate programs to more than 8,500 students. It is a part of Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education. Our master plan work focuses on:
The resulting...
The work established a phased master plan for an historic estate in Hamilton, Massachusetts. The building, originally constructed in 1647, is the oldest house in the community. The idea organizes a composition of the historic house, a new guest cottage and carriage house, and existing stone walls. D...
The St. Clair Superior Community Building Project lays the foundation for the revitalization of one of Cleveland’s most historic neighborhoods. Once a hub of industry and immigration, St. Clair Superior retains a rich cultural legacy and unique assets, including its proximity to downtown and Univers...
St. James Church is a state historic register building in the heart of a vital Cambridge neighborhood. The project links the historic church with a new mixed-use complex, combining parish hall, classrooms for children’s programs, library, neighborhood food pantry, music practice rooms, and upper-lev...
We had the great pleasure of helping Stockton University create its new strategic plan. The university’s essence is captured by the Stockton Idea: to make available to state college students at state college prices the kind of interdisciplinary and individualized liberal arts education usually reser...
DumontJanks is collaborating with the Executive Office of Education and the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance in the creation of a strategic framework for public higher education in Massachusetts. The project's focus is on the development of principles and methodologies for future...
The challenge for SUNY Upstate was to accommodate a 30% growth in student enrollment in a landlocked urban campus that was already near capacity. The solution was to establish new sub-districts for housing and research on nearby underutilized sites, relieving the core of non-essential functions and...
Texas Tech University partnered with us to perform a strategic alignment study. TTU has experienced explosive enrollment growth while also supporting a strong research mission. Planning has historically happened at the system office, but given the university’s aspirations to join the AAU, they sough...
The University of Chicago experienced significant growth that led to evolving classroom needs. Perceptions of space shortages prompted considerations for further construction on the campus core, but the university needed to understand, first, if these perceptions aligned with a quantitative analysis...
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The University of Delaware Space Utilization Study examined the use of academic and student life space at...
The University of Florida's strategic development plan, which we helped author in collaboration with our friends at Elkus Manfredi Architects, established an unprecedented collaborative vision that seeks to transform the City of Gainesville and the university through a series of joint initiatives ad...
We worked in collaboration with our partners at Elkus Manfredi Architects and the University of Florida on a comprehensive strategic development plan for the university's 2,000 acres and 54,000 students. The plan will guide development for one of the country's leading land grant research institution...
During the June 2008 flood of the Iowa River, arts and music facilities at the University of Iowa were severely damaged. In the spring of 2009 the Federal Emergency Management Agency determined that the damage was extensive enough to make the facilities eligible for replacement reimbursement. To gai...
UMass Boston plans to demolish a portion of the campus’ existing substructure and several related buildings. In evaluating potential demolitions, the university needed to understand its current use of, and need for, classroom, teaching laboratory, and office space. We undertook an analysis of schedu...
In support of a physical master plan for a new University of Minnesota campus in Rochester, we developed a comprehensive model that integrated academic, research, financial, and physical considerations. The new campus revolved around a vision for signature programs in the health sciences. The goal w...
The University of Nebraska is a public research university with four primary campuses: UNK in Kearney, UNL in Lincoln, and UNMC (the medical center) and UNO in Omaha. The university has approximately 26,000,000 gross square feet of space across these campuses. This represents a significant portion o...
DUMONTJANKS, in collaboration with our friends at Behnisch Architecten, initially prepared a two-day design workshop for the University of Rochester. The scope included the historic Olmsted academic campus, the adjacent UR Medical Center, and the Eastman School of Music and Memorial Art Gallery in d...
As part of its efforts to reinvest in residential life, The University of Virginia worked with DumontJanks to plan a new residential district along Emmet Street. Located on 11.8 acres at the seam of Central and North Grounds, the site was identified in the North Grounds Planning Study as an underuti...
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The creation of the Ivy Corridor District began as a strategic district study led by DumontJanks in 2016. That idea outlined the transformation of a 14-acre parcel, seen as the potential uniting district between north grounds and historic central grounds on campus. The parcel, roughly the size of th...
Three ideas govern this uppermost 5 acre parcel in the new Ivy Mixed Academic District.
As part of its efforts to reinvest in residential life, The University of Virginia worked with DumontJanks to add a 600 bed residential community into the district which would complement the planned academic us...
The Ivy Corridor is a historically underused 14-acre parcel linking UVA’s historic Central Grounds to the athletic and professional schools to the north, aligned with the same east–west axis as the Arts Hill. Following the trace of an old stream bed, the corridor stretches a ten-minute walk, approxi...
The University of Virginia’s Center for the Arts is envisioned as a transformative new hub, bringing together museums, music, dance, performance, and academics under one roof. Anchoring the Ivy Corridor district and the restored central stream valley and pond, the project strengthens the district as...
The strategic framework for academic space centered on understanding how the university’s complex portfolio of buildings is used and managed today in order to contextualize individual schools’ growth projections and space requirements, and to create a rigorous framework for future capital-investment...
The University of West Georgia is a strong regional university with over 13,000 students. The master plan evolved through a highly consultative process with an emphasis placed on stakeholder engagement. It is based on several key tenets, including the revitalization of the university’s Carrollton ca...
We have enjoyed a long relationship with the University System of Georgia. Our team members have completed planning work for thirteen institutions, and have had the good fortune to collaborate on two important system-wide studies.
The space utilization study grew from concerns over the mismatch be...
We have enjoyed a long relationship with the University System of Georgia. Our team members have completed planning work for thirteen institutions, and have had the good fortune to collaborate on two important system-wide studies.
During the strategic capital plan, we helped six institutions draft...
We worked with a private development company to explore urban development projects on Thayer Street and Wayland Square in Providence, Rhode Island. Both projects explored the changing dynamic of the Brown University neighborhood and the city’s search for projects responsive to the historic commercia...
We envisioned a regeneration of the historic pier district of this island community. The idea puts forth a bold strategy of reinvestment in the waterfront that will create public access as well as distinct address and value. Program uses include a composition of water related commercial, restaurant,...
Along the New England coast, seaport economies rise and fall in a constant cycle of regeneration responding to local, and now, national and global economies. Our work envisions a major reinvestment in the historic waterfront of Newburyport. The reinvestment combines a working waterfront and marina d...
The University System of New Hampshire (USNH) is New Hampshire’s public higher education network, spanning the State over five campuses that each serve unique missions. Every ten years, each system institution updates its campus masterplan. In the most recent cycle of planning, the system expected t...
In the Summer of 2020, the Vermont State Colleges System began work on a major internal transformation which led to the merger of three of the system’s four institutions to become Vermont State University (VTSU).
VTSU committed to developing a new master plan with the goal of building a strategic...
We supported our friends at Lee Partners in assisting the Washington National Cathedral in creating its new strategic plan. The plan’s pillars are anchored in four key areas: Welcoming, Deepening, Convening, and Serving. The plan also explored ways to reopen and reimagine the Cathedral College and t...
Wayne State University is a large, urban, public research university located in Detroit, Michigan. Founded in 1868, the university is committed to preparing its students to excel in a fast-paced and interconnected global society, and to creating relevant knowledge, particularly in areas like health...
As part of the new strategic framework for higher education, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts required each of its 29 public higher education institutions to prepare concept proposals outlining the projects for which they sought funding. We worked with Westfield State on their proposal which outlin...
We have twice developed space plans with the Wharton School, collaborating with faculty, staff, and administrators to identify priorities, opportunities, and challenges. We used interactive online tools to synthesize program requirements, people counts, room data, and the course schedule into a comp...