Access & Belonging
The campus was treated as a shared civic place whose design determines who can participate.
Case study / P063
New Frontier
A future campus designed through systems, place, identity, and pitch.
- Year
- 2021–22
- Mode
- Project-based studio
- Disciplines
- Spatial design / 3D modeling / Systems thinking / Identity / Pitching
The project
Students worked at the scale of a neighborhood: proposing future learning environments through masterplanning, architecture, identity, requirements, budgets, and exhibition. The project joined speculative imagination to the practical language of a design proposal.
101project files indexed
9final 3D design models located
01shared future campus
Essential question
“What should a place for learning become when we design it around the future rather than the past?”
Project architecture
- 01Needs, site, and future-scenario research
- 02Neighborhood and building prototypes
- 03Identity system, proposal requirements, and bid language
- 04Masterplan and exhibition narrative
Learning made visible
Personalization
Teams developed different parts of one environment through their own design lenses.
Authentic Work
Speculation was disciplined by site, program, cost, and proposal constraints.
Collaborative Design
Individual buildings had to become one legible neighborhood and one persuasive plan.
Exhibition
Models, plans, identities, and proposals assembled into one walkable vision of a future campus.