11:00 AM – 4:30 PM | Omni Hotel

5:15 PM – 6:30 PM | Old Cabell Hall Auditorium

Bus transportation will be provided from the Omni Charlottesville to the UVA campus.

6:45 PM – 7:45 PM | The Rotunda | UVA

Bus transportation will be provided from the Omni Charlottesville to the UVA campus.

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7:30 AM – 4:30 PM | Newcomb Hall Ballroom | UVA

Bus transportation will be provided from the Omni Charlottesville to the UVA campus.

8:00 AM – 8:40 AM | Newcomb Hall Ballroom | UVA

Thank you to our Sponsor!

Using Memory as a Powerful Tool for Community Engagement

Presented by: Howard Hebel, Associate Principal, Newman Architects, PC | Amy Daniels, Associate Principal, Newman Architects, PC | Hunter Rauscher, Associate Director of Housing and Operations, University of Mary Washington | Christine Rae Henry, Associate Professor, University of Mary Washington

Incorporating memory into your planning process can create significant new opportunities for greater alumni and campus community engagement in the renovation of historic campus buildings. We’ll demonstrate how memory served as a powerful engagement tool in the process of renovating the historic Willard and Virginia Halls at the University of Mary Washington. This session will equip you to engage wider audiences within your campus community to inform and influence your renovation project processes and outcomes.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss how to inform an outreach, planning, and design process through knowledge of campus history to fit the character of your own campus.
2. Create an engagement survey that will help you to identify key aspects of university and building character through alumni memories.
3. Explain how historical research can help you to capture content that you can incorporate into a campus building renovation.
4. Use historical information to effectively guide the planning and design of your historical building renovation.

Cultivating Educational Transformation through Strategic Planning and Wellbeing

Presented by: Paul Lund, Principal, Hord Coplan Macht, Inc. | Christina Godack, Chief of Staff, Office of the Dean, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing

This session will explore how the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing aligned its facilities to the institution’s strategic plan, updating degree offerings and expanding the main building to match evolving pedagogy and enhance wellbeing. The project prioritized programming and design aspects integral to supporting successful and healthy educational environments, including the creation of a community hub, new learning and research spaces, an improved model for faculty offices, technology integration, and a focus on wellbeing. Come discover how your institution can update its facilities and academic offerings to promote wellbeing, best learning practices and meet a rapidly-evolving economy and workplace.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Prioritize the alignment of new learning spaces with strategic planning and pedagogical changes at your institution.
2. Discuss how to incorporate biophilia and connectedness in your institution’s educational environments to enhance wellbeing and cognition.
3. Strategize for creating buy-in around a new model of faculty offices that promote a healthier and more successful work environment.
4. Identify features of a flexible suite for researchers that enhance learning and wellbeing.

Updating a Landmark Music Building for More Inclusive Programming

Presented by: Susan Smythe, Senior Project Manager, Facilities and Capital Planning, ADA Coordinator, Swarthmore College | Colin Worrich, Senior Consultant, Acentech | Andrew Hauze, Senior Lecturer in the Music Department, Swarthmore College | Jamie Wyper, Partner, Jacobs/Wyper Architects

Renovation changes a building’s context, so how do we integrate today’s values and standards with beloved fixed assets? This session will detail the renovation of an iconic 1970s music building to foster inclusivity and embrace diverse programming—from a Balinese gamelan orchestra to a Chinese music ensemble—using considered design techniques and advanced acoustical engineering. You’ll learn about the real-world spatial implications of incorporating diverse, inclusive programs within buildings from earlier eras, which require campus investment and collaboration with design professionals.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify the spatial implications of renovating older buildings to incorporate more diverse and inclusive programming.
2. Discuss how space usage and design in older buildings can become accessible to and reflect the sensibilities of increasingly diverse campus communities.
3. Recognize campus landmarks not as untouchable assets, but as structures that we can make relevant in our current context through sensitive and respectful programmatic and design interventions.
4. Evaluate acoustical engineering as an important tool in achieving design goals and greater use intensity.

The Power of Wayfinding: Differentiating Your Brand Within a University System

Presented by: Lindsay Story, Creative Director, Ayers Saint Gross | Rebecca Arnold, Facilities Planning, Towson University

Place matters in a higher education landscape that is becoming increasingly more competitive. In this session, we’ll show how three institutions within the University System of Maryland prioritized, designed, and implemented a flexible and maintainable approach to signage and wayfinding, allowing each campus to make an impactful, branded first impression. Come learn how to translate years of ad hoc wayfinding into a consistent brand that provides a welcoming, inclusive, and connected campus for all.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Assess your institution’s brand by determining whether brand guidelines extend to the campus physical environment, where there are inconsistencies, and how your brand differentiates your institution from its peers.
2. Evaluate the existing conditions of your wayfinding system and pinpoint problems such as “sign clutter” and insufficient messaging.
3. Explore methods for engaging key campus stakeholders by soliciting their feedback regarding first impressions, accessibility, and messaging on your campus.
4. Identify immediate steps you can take on your campus to resolve branding inconsistencies and regulate temporary signage.

Honoring History and Ensuring Future Viability at Rowan University’s Fossil Park

Presented by: Andrew Sniderman, Associate, KSS Architects | Marissa Sweig Trigger, Associate Principal, Ennead Architects | Kenneth Lacovara, Director, Edelman Fossil Park, Dean of School of Earth & Environment, Rowan University

This session will explore how Rowan University’s Edelman Fossil Park—a museum, research center, and nature park sited around a fossil quarry—uses the past to inform a better future as a world-class destination for scientific discovery. This net zero facility honors the deep history of existing land while ensuring future viability by incorporating site-specific, experience-driven design that preserves the past, reduces environmental impact, and advances institutional mission. Join our panel as they share strategies from Fossil Park aimed at maximizing the value of campus assets, advancing community engagement, promoting a healthier environment, and creating a pipeline of future students.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss how to position institutional assets to fight climate change, promote a healthier and safer environment, and fulfill sustainability goals while on budget and schedule.
2. Identify nontraditional asset types that can expand your campus footprint and increase institutional impact.
3. Support your institutional mission through the built environment by prioritizing placemaking, experiential design, environmental health and safety, and building performance.
4. Evaluate future-forward planning strategies that support health and wellbeing at every scale, from the local community and university level to the planet and entire global population.

A New Facility for Alternative Learning: The CCP Career and Technology Center

Presented by: David Schrader, Managing Partner, Schradergroup Architecture, LLC | Jacob Eapen, Vice President of Business and Finance, Community College of Philadelphia (CCP)

Trends emphasize a growing demand for technical training that will support societal and workforce needs. In this session, we’ll share how the Community College of Philadelphia (CCP) aims to meet this demand with their new community-supported Career and Technology Center that provides training programs to fill lucrative, technical roles in the workforce. Come learn about this important niche opportunity within higher education and discover how your community can benefit from similar training programs and educational facilities.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify niche opportunities for important career and technical training that your institution could provide.
2. Discuss how career and technical programs support inner-city youth and as well as an understaffed segment of the workforce.
3. Explain the unique facility construction requirements for supporting technical training programs.
4. Assess what you need in order to initiate construction projects in an urban environment with positive support from the surrounding community.

A New, Inclusive Process for Leading Institutional Transformation

Presented by: Tim Gilmour, Principal, Strategic Initiatives, Inc. | Tim Trainor, President, Mount St. Mary’s University

Higher education planners require a proven methodology for supporting their leaders as they seek to transform their institutions in the face of existential threats and challenges. This session will explore how Mount St. Mary’s University applied a new, highly-participative process for leading, navigating, and orchestrating institutional transformation. Come learn how this methodology provides institutional leaders with an approach for developing consensus on a promising, transformative vision for the future as well as executing major initiatives that assure its success.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss how you can help your institutions launch transformation campaigns that aim to meet learner needs in the radically different world of 2030 and beyond.
2. Develop a sense of urgency for creating a bold vision that will compel transformation at your institution.
3. Explain how to craft expeditionary strategies for achieving a transformative vision, which are executed by widely-participative faculty and staff coalitions.
4. Support transformative initiatives on your campus by focusing on execution, achieving “quick wins”, building the necessary organizational capacity, and transforming institutional culture.

Data-Driven Design for the Evolving Academic Workplace

Presented by: Charles Rudalavage, Education Practice Area Leader, Gensler | Maria O’Callaghan-Cassidy, Senior Director, Operations, University of Pennsylvania

Interpreting diverse perspectives and synthesizing qualitative and quantitative information are key to making impactful and informed long-term decisions that drive successful student, institutional, and facility development. In order to meet mounting demand, the historical center for administration at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania needed to reflect the university’s forward-thinking ethos and offer flexible work settings to meet current and future occupant needs. We’ll explore how the Wharton School used a performance measurement tool to examine space effectiveness and leverage lessons learned to create a more agile, resilient, and equitable future.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate how a focus on the user experience of academic spaces can facilitate an increase in resource allocation, student and faculty recruitment and retention, grants, funding, academic performance, and partnerships.
2. Investigate opportunities for redesigning behavioral labs, academic workspaces, and classroom and conference spaces using data-driven insights.
3. Recognize the value of activity-based planning and increasing the volume and variety of spaces to provide choice in work environments.
4. Evaluate the time students and faculty spend in various types of work modes, the spaces they use, and the effectiveness of those spaces.

Gateways to Entrepreneurship

Presented by: Sam Rajamanickam, Principal, Design Collective, Inc. | Jessica Pagan-Aello, Senior Associate, Design Collective, Inc. | Anthony Savia, Vice President for Administration & Finance, Bowie State University | Johnetta Boseman Hardy, Executive Director, Entrepreneurship Academy, Bowie State University

Cultivating next-generation entrepreneurs through a real-world innovation hub and living-learning community encourages creative collaboration and entrepreneurial thinking. How do you design an inclusive and engaging campus community and gateway where students can create, innovate, network with peers, and immerse themselves in an entrepreneurial ecosystem? We’ll share lessons learned from working with various campus constituencies and stakeholders to strike the right balance between student life, entrepreneurial, and academic programming.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss programming and designing a living-learning community that centers on entrepreneurship to engage the greater campus and surrounding community.
2. Identify ways to incorporate entrepreneurship into the daily lives of students.
3. Compare the needs of entrepreneurs and students to find optimal synergies between programs, such as creating a place for university and private sector engagement.
4. Explain the process behind creating a dynamic interface between living, learning, retail, and innovation environments.

Discovering What Works: From Design Goals to Post-Occupancy Evaluation

Presented by: Jennifer Amster, Principal, EYP | Lauren Bailey, Facilities Management, Planning and Design Project Manager, Virginia Commonwealth University | Brent Castro, Junior Designer, EYP

Academic facility design effectiveness of is a common stakeholder concern. Conducting and sharing post-occupancy evaluations helps to ensure a tradition of environmental excellence using an evidence-based design methodology. We’ll share the planning process behind Virginia Commonwealth University’s (VCU) Health Professions Building, which brings together nine departments for cross-disciplinary and innovative education, and discuss our design strategies, post-occupancy evaluation, findings, and future implications. The design of complex educational facilities comes with many tradeoffs and decisions; find out how you can apply VCU’s tools to collect student and faculty feedback with data that links performance and satisfaction to your built academic environments.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply evidence-based design thinking to your projects by encouraging a tradition of soliciting post-occupancy feedback and gathering building performance data.
2. Formulate questions to link design strategies to their intended goals and measure their effectiveness.
3. Discuss how to coordinate and conduct a post-occupancy evaluation using a combination of interviews, observation, and data collection to help build a body of evidence-based design knowledge.
4. Apply VCU’s lessons learned about designing for collaborative teaching and learning modalities on your campus.

The Journey to Transform Campus Cultures of Belonging

Presented by: Debi McDonald, New England Higher Education Market Sector Leader, Jacobs | Pamela Garbini, Assistant Director, Space Planning & Management, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus | Victoria Johnson, Social Value/Equity Practice Leader, Jacobs

In order to meaningfully address the injustices that marginalized groups face in our society, there is a heightened need to identify strategies for facilitating inclusion and social justice across higher education campuses. This session will explore social justice initiatives that actively influence an institution’s policies, practices, and its built environment to create a sense of belonging and wellbeing for the entire campus community. We will share ideas for how you can better address issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion to accelerate a social justice journey and create campus environments where all will feel welcome.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Incorporate language associated with diversity, equity, and inclusion in your planning and design process to foster belonging and wellbeing for your campus community.
2. Expand your awareness of social justice issues through the experiences of higher education and industry planners.
3. Identify ways to effectively challenge existing norms and create impact, belonging, and wellbeing on your campus by changing the conversation around diversity, equity and inclusion.
4. Explore program ideas for providing safe spaces on campus for engaged communication, support, and shared learning about understanding and accommodating differences.

Moving Toward Sustainable Business Models for the Academic Portfolio

Presented by: Katie Hagan, Senior Associate, rpk GROUP | Nicole Woods, Chief of Staff, University of Virginia | Tammy McHale, Senior Associate Dean for Administration and Planning, University of Virginia

The pandemic has accelerated existing challenges to higher education’s business model. In order to create more sustainable models, we will need to ask hard questions regarding our academic portfolios. Using the University of Virginia’s (UVA) College of Arts and Sciences as an example, we will discuss emerging best practices for creating academic portfolios that serve both an institution’s mission and market. This session will empower you to put this best practice to use and begin the difficult work of analyzing your institution’s academic portfolio.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Connect academic portfolios to student demand and workforce needs.
2. Apply key metrics to increase accountability and transparency for academic portfolio contributions.
3. Evolve academic leadership positions—especially deans and chairs—through the use of data frameworks.
4. Use industry language and approaches when applying an ROI lens.

12:40 PM – 1:30 PM | Newcomb Hall Ballroom | UVA

Thank you to our Sponsor!

1:30 PM – 2:40 PM | Newcomb Hall Ballroom | UVA

Revisioning Campus Spaces to Achieve Equity and Inclusion

Presented by: Mark Kocent, University Architect, University of Pennsylvania | Casey Boss, Director Planning, Design and Construction, University of Pennsylvania | Marc Lo, Executive Director, Penn First Plus, University of Pennsylvania | Linda O’Gwynn, Principal, Purdy O’Gwynn Architects

As institutions become more aware of inequities in educational outcomes, they are investing further resources to historically-underserved student populations. This session will explore one institution’s approach to identifying, programming, and renovating a student-centered space dedicated to the welfare of first-generation and limited-income undergraduates. When an entire institution commits to new approaches towards achieving equity goals and student belonging, campus planning obstacles begin to dissolve. Join us to discover how campus-wide commitment and shared visioning can make new equitable and inclusive spaces a reality.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Prioritize the allocation of prime campus real estate to meet equity and inclusion goals.
2. Find a balance between institutional history and a desire for innovative practices in promoting student wellbeing and belonging.
3. Identify program-centered designs and technologies to make campus resources more accessible to first-generation undergraduates.
4. Evaluate the design of your campus spaces in terms of student inclusion, belonging, and wellbeing.

Developing Academic Programs to Address Healthcare and Enrollment Crises

Presented by: Jeremiah Fairbank, Senior Associate, Higher Education Studio, JMT Architecture | Cindy Rubenstein, Chair and Professor, Department of Nursing, Randolph-Macon College | Melody Eaton, Director and Professor, School of Nursing, James Madison University | Kim Little, Chair and Professor, Department of Nursing
Longwood University

When new health profession programs come to campus, academic and facilities planners must fulfill various unique requirements in order to expand and grow their institution’s academic programs. This panel will provide a critical framework for decision-making and offer valuable insights on successfully navigating the planning and building process for new nursing schools. Come learn about different strategies for implementing new academic programs and learning environments in response to ongoing workforce needs in health professions and institutional enrollment objectives.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss a critical framework for developing new academic programs and learning environments.
2. Holistically employ comprehensive planning and budgeting benchmarks for programming and facilities.
3. Identify challenges and develop strategies for establishing and growing enrollment, faculty, and facilities.
4. Effectively navigate regulatory and accreditation requirements for new academic programs.

Everything Old Is New Again

Presented by: Ben Niebauer, Education Market Leader, DesignGroup | Lauren McConnell, University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | Bobbi Jo Rosol, Assistant Director, IT Finance & Administration, University of Pittsburgh | Riley Zollars, Senior Interior Designer, DesignGroup

Higher education planning departments and administrations may seem heavily reliant on studies, but it’s important to have the necessary knowledge and data for defining and creating actionable roadmaps and making strategic decisions. Institutions are stretching their budgets and buildings further and further to cope with current challenges, so they must be increasingly tactical with their dollars and space to maximize benefits for their programs and departments. Come learn how to apply our effective strategies for fitting large programs into small facilities with tight capital investments through the use of tactical planning efforts on your campus.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Assess various self-evaluation protocols and thresholds for planning studies.
2. Identify actionable, data-based outcomes from planning studies.
3. Explain how to engage all stakeholders in planning studies to build consensus and buy-in from multiple constituent groups.
4. Evaluate new building utilization metrics to change how your campus uses its facilities.

Where is the Market Going? The Future of Construction Costs

Presented by: Blair Tennant, Associate Principal, Vermeulens

The overall economy and market are the main drivers for construction activity, and therefore, construction costs. With 2021 behind us, we all have questions about future design and construction markets; this session will review last year’s economic movement and make projections for 2022. We will help you and your stakeholders stay in the loop with regards to market trends and make more informed decisions on how to proceed with your campus building projects.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Gain important insights into how macroeconomics impact construction volume and cost.
2. Apply detailed city and state data from construction labor analyses to estimate your project costs.
3. Forecast for future construction costs that may impact your campus building project.
4. Help stakeholders make informed decisions regarding construction costs based on market trends.

Designing Facilities for Evolving Academic Programs

Presented by: Jay Woodburn, Principal, Baskervill | Paul Rocheleau, Executive Director of Strategic Development, Virginia Commonwealth University College of Engineering | Jefferson Poole, Associate Principal, Goody Clancy

Understanding how academic units evolve over time can help planners to ascertain growth and change patterns to more effectively inform planning strategies and metrics. This session will derive lessons learned from Virginia Commonwealth University’s (VCU) College of Engineering and illustrate new ways of thinking about space to support evolving academic programs. As engineering education and research change focus they require updated facilities to promote collaborative learning. Through examining metrics, space types, planning strategies, and industry collaborations, you will be able to apply our models in your own planning and programming efforts at your institution.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify opportunities for creating links with external businesses, collaborators, and sponsors.
2. Refine programmatic space metrics to more accurately anticipate academic growth and change.
3. Discuss how to integrate robust and flexible systems infrastructure to support future program evolution.
4. Find ways to incorporate local industry collaborator participation into facility design.

Future-Proofing Educational Facilities by Improving Indoor Air Quality

Presented by: Raymond Doyle, Managing Principal, WB Engineers+Consultants | Peter Dussault, Managing Principal, WB Engineers+Consultants | Carlos Williams, Director of Architecture & Engineering Services, Facility Services, Howard University

When higher education planners find the right solutions for creating safer learning environments that increase productivity and satisfaction, campuses become even better places for people to learn and teach. In this session, we’ll share our solutions for modifying HVAC systems and discuss effective future-proofing methods to make safer and more learner-friendly educational facilities based on building age and type. Come learn about the steps you can take to improve indoor air quality, future-proof, and plan appropriate design solutions in your campus’s existing, new, and future buildings.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss how to enhance HVAC systems to improve indoor air quality on infrastructure in new and existing campus buildings.
2. Identify short-term methods for reducing indoor air contaminants— such as filtration and ventilation— while recognizing that short-term savings do not lead to long-term benefits.
3. Evaluate long-term strategies for applying performance indoor air quality procedures, including active mitigation systems, such as filtration, UVGI, PCO, ionization, and humidification.
4. Act as a champion for indoor air quality improvements and monitoring for your institution’s buildings and projects.

Memorialization and Dialogue: Framing Conversation Around Institutional Legacies

Presented by: Cathy Pinskey, Program Director, Facilities, George Mason University | Stephanie Wolfgang, Senior Associate, Senior Landscape Architect, Perkins and Will

In an era of intense debate surrounding the legacies of historical figures, George Mason University is using community-fostering dialogue to address its namesake’s legacy and memorialize the lives of those he enslaved. This session will discuss the process and outcomes of the university’s recent effort to acknowledge this legacy by incorporating a memorial into a large-scale campus infrastructure project. Come learn how you can leverage undergraduate student research efforts and spaces within your campus environment to address topics that impact the wellbeing, expression, and representation of your campus community.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discover methods for translating student-led undergraduate research projects into actionable outcomes that can shape both the social and physical campus environment.
2. Shape physical environments to facilitate the expression of values that are important to your campus community.
3. Develop strategies for acknowledging the mixed legacies of historical figures that your campus may be honoring.
4. Establish meaningful stakeholder engagement and buy-in among university student, faculty, and staff to facilitate meaningful campus projects.

The Development, Planning, and Design of a 21st-century Library

Presented by: Kit Meyer, Sr. Project Manager, University of Virginia | Alice Raucher, Architect for the University, University of Virginia | John Unsworth, Dean of Libraries, University Librarian, Professor of English, University of Virginia

This session will detail planning challenges and solutions from the University of Virginia’s (UVA) Main Library renovation project. The library’s planning and design phase lasted for over a decade, spanning multiple changes in university and library leadership, technological impacts on research and scholarship, and continued building deterioration. Come learn how the project team developed a successful vision in the face of complex logistical issues, faculty dissatisfaction with proposed programming, and the partial demolition of a beloved historical building.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss how to achieve resiliency in the face of long-duration planning processes.
2. Maintain vision and focus for your renovation project during changes in institutional leadership.
3. Adapt your building renovation in line with evolving expectations for sustainability, accessibility, equity, and access.
4. Evaluate existing structures for reuse and character when planning a new building addition.

7:00 AM – 9:00 AM | Newcomb Hall Ballroom | UVA

Bus transportation will be provided from the Omni Charlottesville to the UVA campus.

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM | Newcomb Hall Ballroom | UVA

Thank you to our Sponsor!

8:00 AM – 9:10 AM | Newcomb Hall Ballroom | UVA

9:30 AM – 11:30 AM | Leave from the Newcomb Hall Ballroom | UVA

Tour Notes: Each attendee will choose one tour to attend. Please sign up for one of the three tours at the registration desk when you pickup your badge.

Please wear comfortable walking shoes and warm clothing. All tours will include extensive walking and time outdoors.

The Main Library Renewal Project is an active construction site. Please wear sturdy, closed toe shoes, preferably boots. Attendees who do not have appropriate footwear will be given a perimeter tour including renderings of the finished building, good views of the new addition, exterior restoration, and with discussion of construction progress.

Adapting a Cultural Icon to a New Era:  Tour of the Evolving UVA Landscape

This tour will explore the evolving landscape of this World Heritage Site campus, visiting spaces that illustrate new ways of interpreting and designing within a complex historic landscape.

Location 1: North Rotunda Terrace. Review World Heritage Site extents and ongoing commemorative activities and new historic contexts as well as adaptation to contemporary needs such as accessibility and stormwater management regulations.  Discuss Robert Mill’s annex; multiple Rotunda renovations; Olin plan including permeable paving; Thomas Jefferson statue; and the Change Agent program featuring interpretive signs.
Location 2: Cryptoporticus.  Walk by original plaque to enslaved workers
Location 3: East courtyard: Olin plan completed as part of recent Rotunda renovation.
Location 4: Memorial to Enslaved Laborers. Discuss process, including public engagement, approval by UNESCO, design features.
Location 5: East Range. Discuss East Range Pavilion Alley Renovation to solve a 200-year-old stormwater problem.
Location 6: Pavilion Garden VI. Discuss upcoming project to interpret archaeology of upper garden and use by the enslaved community.
Location 7: Lawn. Discuss balance between built form and landscape and the significance of landscape. Discuss modern day adaptations to meet needs and threats, such as ADA and emerald ash borer.
Location 8: through New Cabell Hall. Recent Renovation of a 1950’s classroom building to upgrade systems and materials, note refurbished courtyard landscape.  Take South Lawn bridge over Jefferson Park Avenue, note Water Course landscape.  Exit through Commons to east courtyard.
Location 9: Kitty Foster site. Discuss interpretation and Walter Hood design of the archaeological site and early African American community history

Learning Outcomes

1. Balancing contemporary needs with historic preservation within a World Heritage site
2. Contextualizing the narrative of campus history
3. Planning for resiliency within a historic context

Brandon Green Street Redevelopment District

This tour will focus on the Brandon Green Street, a strategic neighborhood redevelopment adjacent to the historic Lawn within the UVA Grounds.  The Master Plan for this redevelopment zone was completed by Perkins + Will and the UVA Office of the Architect in Fall of 2016.  In 2017, the detailed design for the Green Street (Perkins+Will) was developed as a broad public realm to engender the neighborhood and a major stormwater element centering the new district.  Bond House (Goody Clancy) was also designed that year and the two were built simultaneously while Student Health and Wellness (Duda Paine Architects/VMDO) was being designed and then completed construction in 2021. The next two buildings, upper class student housing (Elkus Manfredi) are underway and will be completed summer of 2024. At that point, there will be two building sites remaining in the district. Along with the Green Street, multiple parks are embedded in the design – two have been completed and will be part of the tour.

Learning Outcomes

1. A presentation will provide an overview of the complex planning and design issues as they relate to the masterplan, site development, buildings, outdoor spaces and infrastructure.
2. A tour will allow visitors to discover how the Green Street and adjacent park spaces link significant circulation corridors providing transition between and connection to historical and contemporary landscapes and character zones to create unique outdoor spaces for the University community.
3. The Green Street stormwater management will be examined as both a performative landscape and an important component of UVA’s robust sustainability goals.
4. The group will explore existing and proposed facilities and their programs to understand the role of each in supporting the objectives of the master plan, redefining a vision for residential life, student wellness and community building.

Main Library Renewal Project

The University’s renewal of its main library made the bold step of relocating 1.5M volumes and closing its main library entirely in order to create modern stacks while preserving and renovating 100,000 sf of historic reading rooms and staff space. This required extensive enabling support such as installing new compact shelving in other libraries to maintain access to books, increasing high density off-site storage for the majority of the collection, relocating over 200 staff, and emptying a 225,000sf building for the first time in 80+ years- and yes, there were some interesting finds. The plan received a lot of engagement from faculty and other constituents, not all of it supportive. The hybrid approach of renovation and new addition will create a new library worthy of UVA’s Central Grounds.

The new addition will create an outward facing entrance meant to welcome the community as we are open to the public as well as UVA staff and students. The renewal includes thoughtful amenities to create a welcoming and inclusive environment. The project is proud to support University sustainability goals in innovative ways. The construction is technically complex with the addition being twenty feet deeper than the historic building, difficult structural interventions were required in the existing building, and a there will be a glorious transformation of unused light wells into skylight covered study courts.