Through innovative urban design and campus micro master planning Christopher Carvell Architects PC is shaping new inner city and college campus mixed use environments that incorporate a much-needed human scale and sense of community.

MICRO MASTER PLANNING

Fostering stewardship and sustainability, identity and place-making - connecting people with ideas - reinforcing space that encourages interaction and learning.

Site Framework Organizing Principles include:

• a building or composition of buildings, that are shaped and grouped to reinforce outdoor gathering spaces.
• a building or composition of buildings, that respect the scale of the adjacent neighborhood and/or campus precinct with an appropriate transition of building massing framing view corridors.
• organize outdoor spaces with useful sizes and configurations to reinforce the desire to establish a village atmosphere and variety of distinct spaces that extend the idea of a living-learning atmosphere inside and out.
• defined and animated pedestrian walkways linking courts, plazas, building entries; thus, facilitating sharing and interaction of spaces inside and out.
• the creation of memorable outdoor active and passive rooms framed by buildings reinforcing gateway + sight lines to primary and secondary entries.
• support important campus circulation patterns:
  • minimize the conflict and crossover pattern of pedestrians and vehicles
  • reinforce the orthogonal grid linking and organizing buildings. Reinforce associated outdoor spaces facing south to take advantage of sun exposure and shade trees, proportioned outdoor rooms that encourage interaction, recreation and the facilitation of informal study groups.