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  • Planning History
    • Development Plan (1969)
    • Phase IV Report (1990)
    • Plan Review (1993)
    • Master Plan Report (2000)
    • Precinct Plan (2000)
    • Expansion Plan (2001)
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Planning Process
  • Project Initiation
    • RFP-Qu Detailed Information
      • Project Summary
        • Overall Objectives
        • Consulting Services
      • Project Scope
        • Specific Planning Objectives
        • Proposed Process & Timelines
        • Deliverables
        • Supplemental RFP Material
        • Existing Campus Plan
        • Planning Liaisons
        • Approvals
        • Environmental Sustainability
        • Relevant Studies & Reports
          • Additional Relevant Planning Studies & Reports
        • Strategic Plan Synergies
        • Key Development Concerns
      • Scope of Services
      • Project Organization
  • Planning Phases
    • Phase 1
    • Phase 2
      • Leadership Interviews
      • World Cafe
        • Delegates
      • Whiteboard/Facebook Forum
        • Question 1
        • Question 2
        • Question 3
        • Question 4
        • Question 5
        • Question 6
      • Life Balance Fair
    • Phase 3
      • Master Plan Directions Report (ECS)
        • Direction A: "Comprehensive"
        • Direction B: "Destination"
        • Direction C: "Leadership"
        • Summary of Findings
          • Graduate Education and Research
          • Liberal Education
          • A Destination Campus
          • Outlook for the Faculties
          • One Campus, Many Experiences
          • Student Services
          • Library, Learning Commons
          • Student Hub / Student Life
          • Residences
          • Campus Heritage
          • Social Spaces
          • Parking and Transit
          • Campus Organization
          • Connection to Community
    • Phase 4
      • Context of Plan Alternatives
      • Precedent Buildings & Landscapes
      • Iterative Planning Concepts
        • Early Planning Charrettes
        • Toward Three Conceptual Plans
          • UCMP Option A
          • UCMP Option B
          • UCMP Option C
          • Evaluation of Three Concepts
        • Two Planning Futures
      • Open House I
        • Presentation Boards
    • Phase 5
    • Phase 6 (In Conclusion)
      • Celebratory Public Open House

Campus Organization

Campus Organization

In 1971, the University of Lethbridge was housed primarily in University Hall and its setting was the coulee environment near the Old Man River. Over time, campus development moved ‘up the hill’ in a series of rapid and sometimes temporary building projects. Today, campus organization is unclear, with newcomers unable to find a recognizable front door and further unable to easily locate a welcome area, an obvious heart of campus, or the services they require.

Implications for the Master Plan

The Master Plan will need to:

  • Identify an area where a critical mass of structures can naturally create a heart of campus
  • Create a highly visible public front / entrance pavilion / presentation space – for visitors, prospective students and their parents, alumni, government and industryrepresentatives
  • Identify a location for a new Gallery, cafés, restaurants that will draw the public to campus
  • Consolidate functional clusters like student services
  • Link functional elements and clusters
  • Treat new building projects as multi-functional spaces to reverse the trend toward fragmentation
  • Incorporate new space requirements as per enrolment growth and proposed academic and research programs
  • Recalibrate campus by resolving the ‘up the hill’ – ‘down the hill’ dichotomy
  • Make University Hall & Centre for the Arts (and particularly the University Theatre more accessible to all students and staff, and specifically for seniors, people with disabilities, government and industry representatives, and community members.
  • Incorporate principles of sustainability
  • Consider the impact of the Penny Building in downtown Lethbridge on performance or other space on the main campus

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