Campus Planning.

"We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us." -Winston Churchill

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 ART SCHOOL: Educational institution with a primary focus on the visual arts especially, illustration painting, photography sculpture graphic design

The term applies to institutions with elementary, secondary, postsecondary or undergraduate, or graduate or postgraduate programs in these areas. École des Beaux-Arts ,is the first model of arts school that has such organize instructions of graduate and undergraduate programs. Architect: Félix Duban,French architect. PURPOSE OF AN ARTS SCHOOL : Students should be encouraged to explore the visual, functional and compositional possibilities TYPES OF ARTS SCHOOL:

Four Year Art-Focused School Undergraduate Programs 1. Graduate Programs

Vocational Schools and Technical Schools 1. Associates of Arts degree 2. Associates of Science degree

Community College Art Academies and Art Workshops

CAMPUS PLANNING: Critical important topics to be studied 1. Campus planning. 2. Campus Architecture. 3. Landscape. Why it is Important? 

Because it creates the setting, that supports the mission of the institution.

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They create the identity.

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Helps to sustain a particular status among it’s peers.

ORIGIN OF ‘CAMPUS’: 

Derived from the Greek word “green” or open landscaped area.

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Later from the Roman word “camp” of well planned order.

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Greeks have viewed as a setting to spur and create the ‘ideas’

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Romans saw it in terms of ‘civilization’.

CONCEPT: The main concept of the ‘Campus’ is to create a space of freedom and creativity. ‘Sense of Place’.

PROGRAM AREAS: Two core program areas: 1. Academic program. 2. Administrative program.

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Every institution small or large, must provide some form of housing

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On-campus accomadations, traditional dormitories, houses for faculty and staff. 1. Academic 2. Administrative 3. Housing 4. Recreation 5. Student services 6. Infrastructure

INFRASTRUCTURE: A very important element in designing a campus. It’s a fundamental program of its own with its own detailed planning. it ranges the following that hold a campus, both physically and figuratively. 

Central Plants

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Computer centers

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Parking structures

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Underground services

LEVELS: 

Urban design level,Campus plan.

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Neighborhood level,District plan.

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Individual facility level,Site plan. These cannot be replaced by the one ‘Master plan’. CAMPUS PLAN: 

Two dimensional adjacencies viewed as plan.

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Three dimensional topography, Landscape and building form and masses.