Phase One: Denton Campus

The physical environment is a fundamental part of this experience. Thinking holistically of all the stakeholders that make up the world within which the university can thrive from investors to students, the staff and the surrounding community, enlightened synergies and an integrated approach to design.

The careful consideration of a physical environment does several things. It creates safe, secure precincts to enable focus and specialization, but then interfaces and connects with campus wide places, all while drawing the best physical features into how the campus plan begins to take shape.

These stakeholders are the backbone, the key critical element, of implementing the goals of the master plan:

• The User: The users are the stakeholders who engage and experience the added value of interacting and implementing the master plan. Inclusion, belonging and a sense of pride can be reinforced through the creation of spaces that are memorable, beautiful and high performing.
• The Community: The master plan adds value to the public and their related social, cultural and infrastructural systems within and surrounding the project.
• The Investor: The on-campus improvements will raise real estate value for surrounding property owners. Additionally, there will be several investment and donor opportunities.
• The Earth: Although this stakeholder is not usually sitting at the table, each of us has a responsibility to represent and defend the interests of a sustainable, regenerative and resilient campus.

The Framework

Once both the principles of the existing campus and the aspirational strategic goals for an expanded campus have been identified, a series of design recommendations and approaches can give form to a play book. This framework is a comprehensive guide in a series of complex scenarios that are sure to arise at some point in the future as an expanded campus evolves. Our recommendations include standards to grow as a comprehensive campus.

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