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(click on image above for a more detailed view)  
Cultural
1. Walgreen Center/Arthur Miller Theater
1a. Dance Center
   
Academic
2. School of Information (2)
3. School of Music
4. Commons/”Rackham North”/Parking
5. Art and Architecture Building
5a. Academic Building TBD
   
Residential
6. Residence Hall
7. Residential College
7a. Faculty/Staff/Market Housing
   
Administrative
8. “Fleming Building”
9. “Wolverine Tower”
   
Commercial
10. Retail “Street”
11. Hotel
12. Pub/Inn
   
All Faiths Meditation Space
(3 alternate locations)
   
Mixed Use
13. Conference Center
14. Research
   
Infrastructure
15. Parking Deck (5)
16. Retention Pond (2)
   
Foreground Building or Site

PROPOSED DESIGN GUIDELINES

  1. Maintain the greenbelt of trees around North Campus as much as possible.

  2. Maintain and enhance key open green spaces, especially:
    • Lurie Tower quadrangle
    • The pond east of the School of Music
    • Swale between A+A Building and IST
    • Median and shoulders of Bonisteel Boulevard entrance

  3. Create a compact, walkable campus with a mixed-use core near Pierpont Commons on the east side of Murfin Avenue, which might be widened or converted into a boulevard. Introduce within the core more retail, eateries, services, health facilities, student residences and, possibly, market housing, as well as a large auditorium, more academic space and arts venues.

  4. Deploy a range of architectural, street, and landscape types that are appropriate to site, function and symbolic importance of new buildings and landscape interventions. Bring attention to the more public and honorific buildings (e.g. Walgreen Center, All Faiths meditation space, conference center) with foreground siting, massing, scale, materials, landscaping and other design considerations. Less public, less honorific buildings (e.g. residence halls, academic loft buildings, such as classroom and laboratory buildings, and utility, ancillary, and temporary buildings such as maintenance facilities, parking decks, etc.) should play a more background, supporting architecture role, although designed with as much skill and attention to detail.

  5. Reduce surface parking; build parking decks, which are essential to creating a pedestrian-scaled North Campus. Structured parking should be underground or embedded in buildings and, if free- standing, enclosed by other more pedestrian-friendly uses, especially on the ground floor.

  6. Provide space on the periphery (e.g. on north side of Fuller Road, between Hayward Road and Hubbard Road, and south of the Pfizer complex) for market rate housing and housing for faculty, staff, graduate students, visiting faculty and the general public (including alumni and retired University employees), as well as space for university-related collateral facilities, institutions and organizations, such as a conference center, hotel, inn, institutes, research and development facilities, health center, athletic facilities, experimental structures, etc.

  7. Enhance linkages to the Medical Campus and Central Campus. A rail or rubber-tired transit connection on a dedicated right-of-way for the entire or part of the route, which need not be aligned with Fuller Road, is one possibility. A jitney cab or van system is another. Create a halfway destination, such as a pub, restaurant and/or inn on the Huron River’s edge.

 

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