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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:
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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...
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 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...
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...
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...