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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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Our successful master plan for Georgetown University has led to multiple projects unifying the stunning hilltop campus while introduci...
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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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...
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 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 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...
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...
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...
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...