The Campus Design Studio has been relatively silent since late October, but work has been progressing steadily. On November 14, 2012 the team presented a draft document to the Andrews University Campus Master Planning Committee for review and feedback. This draft is available for download here and includes a proposed set of master planning principles, goals, regulating plans, and a series of case studies for specific building, landscape, and...

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Last week included several opportunities for the team to present its current work to university administration, the general faculty, and AU architecture alumni for review and comment. On October 22, Andrew von Maur presented a summary of current work to the Campus Master Planning Committee, which is chaired by President Niels-Erik Andreasen. Members of a committee had a chance to weigh in on significant issues and recommended a variety of next...

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The second campus-wide workshop was held on October 4 at the Campus Center to present and discuss alternative concepts that can inform the revised Campus Master Plan. Seventy-five students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members reviewed a series of illustrative drawings and studies representing distinct choices and trade-offs concerning future campus development. The work represents the culmination of an intense and collaborative design...

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On September 19, the design team was privileged to meet Elder Ted N. C. Wilson, President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, at the GC World Headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland. This meeting allowed the team to introduce itself and to discuss various questions regarding the physical environment of Christian education. Several of the questions pertained to the relevance of counsel given by E.A. Sutherland and Ellen G. White...

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The design team has almost completed its travels in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia to study various existing campuses in preparation for the design phase of the master planning process. So far, this has included the College of William & Mary, Richmond University, the University of Virginia, Johns Hopkins University, the Maryland Institute College of Art, Goucher College, St John’s College, the US Naval Academy, and St...

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The Campus Design Studio conducted the first campus planning workshop on Sunday, September 9 at the Hoosier and Lincoln Rooms of the Campus Center. More than seventy-five students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community residents attended the two-hour workshop, which was opened with some motivating remarks by President Andreasen. The event began with an open-house presentation of more than forty large-scale maps, diagrams, and outlines...

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