University of California, Davis
2017 Campus Entry Study & 2016 Haring Hall Renovation Visioning Report
The University of California, Davis is a public research and land-grant university, located on 7,300 acres, as one of the 10 campuses of the University of California (UC) system, and is located in Davis, California. It has the third-largest enrollment, with 29,000 undergraduates and 6,700 graduate students, in the UC System. UC Davis is labeled one of the "Public Ivies", considered to provide a quality of education comparable to those of the Ivy League.
2017 Campus Entry Study
Land Use & Campus Planning: Campus Entries
The University of California, Davis wanted to develop alternatives for distinguishing its campus entry points in order to provide safe, secure, identifiable and aesthetically-pleasing experiences for those entering and exiting the campus at a variety of distinct locations, from high-speed vehicular-oriented interchanges to low-speed pedestrian/bicycle-oriented streets. The university retained a consultant team including Neu Campus Planning, in order to create design options and guidelines to allow for skillful interpretation and implementation over time at each of six principle entry locations. Clear definition of the project objectives, as well as the careful assessment of various issues and opportunities at each entry location, was key to developing designs that successfully address the university’s goals. Physical factors involved include green landscape, hard surfaces, bollards, graphics, exterior illumination, ‘blue-light’ phones and traffic/ADA regulations. This “campus entrance issue" is both common to most university campuses, and unresolved in nearly all.
2016 Haring Hall Renovation Visioning Report
Adaptive Reuse & Renovation Report
Neu Campus Planning lead a consultant team that collaborated with UC Davis to conceptualize the renewal and revitalization of Haring Hall, a mid-century modern building, which formerly housed the School of Veterinary Medicine. Planning strategies included engaging with focus groups to consider alternate approaches to both composition of office occupants and configuration of office environments, as well as reviewing contemporary benchmarks that were successfully implemented at other leading research universities.
The study developed personas for potential users (faculty, lecturers, staff and graduate students) of the space, as well as solicited responses to various work space options, spatial adjacencies and test fits of alternative floor plan arrangements from conventional office to open address. Planning principles and design process for the subsequent renovation of Haring Hall were also developed.
