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Adaptive Reuse

Webinar Recordings

A 21st Century Learning Environment

 Join to hear about the aims of the University Design Forum and how to redesign a historical building into a modern learning environment.
Conference Presentations

A Growing Business School’s Vertical Campus in a Leased Downtown Location

 This session will delve into the opportunities and challenges involved with locating a Johns Hopkins University's new business school in a leased, downtown, high-rise building mixing students with other occupants of the building.
Partner Content

An Intersection of College and Community: Transforming Unused Facilities Into Vibrant Learning Centers can be a Win-Win

 The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) collaborated with SCUP for an article in this issue of Learning By Design. Read how Austin Community College repurposed facilities in an abandoned mall into a high-tech center for developmental math instruction.
Conference Recordings

At the Edge: Connecting Campus and Community Through Transformative Reuse

 Every campus has underused edges it can leverage as important connections to community within and beyond its boundaries Transformative reuse provides an opportunity to deploy new programs, restore important historic structures, and foster community in different ways. In this session, we’ll discuss how Wesleyan University and Amherst College invested in an underused, historic campus-edge buildings to develop a nexus for creative community, a student run hub, and a think tank for the humanities.
Partner Content

Building Reuse Is Climate Action

 Read about two renovations that substantially reduced emissions while preserving campus character.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Campus Chapels
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Campus Historic Preservation and Adaptive Reuse

 By integrating historic buildings into your campus planning, their continued reuse can help solve some of the specific challenges facing university planners today.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Creating a New Campus Destination

 The project offers preservation, building revitalization, and adaptive reuse as an alternative model for sustainable campus growth.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Creating a Place for Introductory Mathematics

 Sometimes thinking outside the box requires designing within the box—be that box a university prerequisite or a campus facility.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Doing More with Less

 Just a few years ago we would strive to utilize a space during 60 percent of its usable hours; now we are asked to strive for 70 to 80 percent utilization.
Conference Recordings

Evolution of a Mall into a Future-Proofed Campus

 We’ll explore how Austin Community College District transformed a declining mall into the Highland Campus, which supports student success through embracing new pedagogies, technology, and integrated programs that prepare students for the future.
Conference Presentations

Finding Your Swan: Reimagining Unloved Buildings at JMU

 There are distinct advantages to both renovation and new construction; an optimal blend of these approaches can enable opportunities for physical growth, evolving programs, and a minimally disruptive reimagining of campus buildings.
Conference Presentations

Iconic Design Problem Solving and Entrepreneurship Create Collaborative Incubator Spaces

 We will reveal our methodology for how institutions can generate new economies, define an innovation campus identity, and utilize brownfields.
Conference Presentations

Improving Campus Character and Performance Through Renovation and Adaptive Reuse

 Breathing new life into old buildings is one of the most sustainable available campus strategies and offers benefits beyond carbon reduction. Renovation and adaptive reuse support a triple bottom line of environmental, financial, and social wellbeing.
Conference Presentations

Leading with Culture and Community to Transform a University Building

 We will share the planning behind the transformation of Yale Law School's Baker Hall and demonstrate how deeply engaging the new occupant's culture can powerfully guide building transformation.
Conference Presentations

Reconnect, Reuse, Revitalize, Recruit: Addressing Aging Campus Facilities

 Institutions are constrained by housing modern programs within aging facilities.
Conference Presentations

Reimagining Clippinger: Adaptive Reuse of an OU Post-war Science Building

 Since Ohio University's (OU) Clippinger Laboratory was built in 1967 higher education has changed dramatically: scientific research, instruction, and the students themselves.
Webinar Recordings

Reimagining Master Planning at Florida State University

 Revising a master plan isn’t usually innovative, but Florida State’s holistic approach is. By engaging the whole institution in the conversation, the master plan reset will ensure that the values and aspirations of the institution are reflected in a built environment that not only meets program needs, but supports and sustains the innovation necessary for post-pandemic realities.
Conference Recordings

Reinvigorating a Campus Landmark

 Beginning with the project's conception and taking you through its planning, design, and construction, we will outline our investigation, historic research, and analysis of Harvard University's Stirling-designed postmodern museum to inform its transformation into a vibrant academic building housing a variety of programs.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Renovation/Expansion of Administration Building Offers Successful Paradigm for Integrated Planning and Collaborative Design

 Sustainability fits well with any renovation project as “adaptive reuse” considerations are inherent in the process.
Conference Presentations

Revitalization at Harvard’s Center

 Come learn how we successfully navigated stakeholder outreach and generated a campus center design solution within the existing building.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Stakeholder Engagement Paves the Journey from Learning to Employment

 Planners for West Coast University connected with stakeholders to solicit input and gain consensus on decisions. The result is a technology-rich building and academic program that helps nursing students achieve their objectives
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Teaching, Learning, Doing in Collaborative Spaces

 The intermingling of undergraduate students with grad students, post-docs, faculty, and commercial interests in one innovative facility results in better academic experiences.
Conference Presentations

The Kodak Legacy Reimagined

 Monroe Community College opened its new urban campus in fall 2017 through an initiative that repurposed an industrial complex into a vibrant community college steeped in town/gown relationships that provide mutual benefits.
Conference Presentations

The Reactivated Campus: Do More With Less

 Post-covid, many campuses are still struggling with balancing in-person, remote, and hybrid student experiences.
Conference Presentations

Transform Educational Facilities for Innovative Learning and Environmental Stewardship

 We'll share recent examples of existing buildings that were transformed for new use and discuss the connection between carbon and building reuse.
Conference Presentations

Transforming Vacated Office Space Into Modern Learning Environments

 We will discuss how Sacred Heart University acquired the GE world headquarters facility, transforming it to create a modern, nationally branded campus.
Conference Recordings

What We’ve Learned and What’s Next

 We'll highlight approaches and lessons learned from two New York City institutions during the pandemic, including creatively retrofitting their campus facilities amidst a crisis period of declining revenue and enrollments.