Campus and community to benefit from expanded arts facilities Examining the character and capacity of MU's "central campus"

planning study and concept design U 's "central campus" is have been completed for a new generally defined as that part chool of Music/Performing Arts M of the campus between Elm Center and expanded visual arts facilities Street on the north and Rollins Street that will add a welcome new vibrancy to on the south. The area includes the MU's core academic environment. original Red and White campuses The facility, to be located at the northeast built through the 1930s, undergraduate comer ofHitt Street and University Avenue, instruction facilities, the university's will house not only music school faculty, major common facilities, e.g. , staff and students, but will also feature Brady Commons, Memorial Union a 1,000-seat concert hall and a 350-seat and , and other spaces recital hall. Diagonally across the street, and buildings since developed that the existing Fine Arts Building will be serve the university's expanding core renovated and expanded to include much­ academic programs. Shaping a "smart-growth" strategy at MU needed teaching, performance, studio Sustaining MU's flagship campus MU's "central campus," generally framed by Elm Street on the north and Rollins Street ike many public flags hip patte rns of facilities and gallery spaces for the Department of character on the south, is the focus of an urban design study. (Photo courtesy of Publications & Alumni universities in the United States, growth, the university Theatre and the Department of Art. Communication) This area is the subject of a focused L MU continues to face an uncertain is developing a "Smart The new facilities are long overdue. The urban design study intended to both position future buildings to frame and investigations to date look at how to future for the capital funding of facilities Growth Strategy." A key music school, art and theatre departments confirm the central campus' capacity to animate the pedestrian open-space 1) complete the architectural edges of necessary to maintain its mission as the planning initiative, this environment in much the same way Carnahan Quad on the west side of currently share the nearly 50-year-old Fine An architectural concept of the proposed School of Music/Performing Arts Center shows accommodate future academic facilities, provider of high-level teaching, research, major new refinement Arts Building, which long ago ceased to the entrance at the northeast corner of Hitt Street and University Avenue. and ensure that future development is as and Carnahan the Arvard Strickland Building and service and economic development for of the annually updated adequately support the missions of these consistent with the established character Quadrangle are h andsom ely framed south of Rollins Street; 2) define the the state. Campus Mas ter Plan three disciplines; each department came of this most-iconic-and-memorable part by architecture. Recognizing that 21st future edges and landscape character Funding uncertainties have to will provide technically to rely on remote facilities, none of which Completion of the SOM/PAC planning downtown Columbia and the north century buildings are typically larger of Kuhlman Court and 3) enhance and financially rigorous study and concept design parallels a 2006 edge of campus along Elm Street to of Mizzou. The need to confirm future be reconciled with MU's mission meets existing facility standards. central campus capacity is essential in than most buildings in this historic the clarity of the pedestrian corridor to prov ide facilities supporting guidelines for future joint urban-study plan among MU, the effect a town-gown regeneration campus area, it is important to ensure between Kuhlman Court and the campus growth. New building makes connections City of Columbia and Stephens College. and revitalization distinctive to sustaining Mizzou's role as a dynamic institutional growth and change if and enduring flagship campus. The that future buildings are compatible in Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences the University is to undergird the Smart Growth The new concert hall and its public Planners seek to develop the area between Columbia. scale with surrounding building and Center. During the course of this year, urban d esign study defines potential state's competitive edge in the global modeling lobbies w ill be situated along Hitt Street building areas that can be achieved by spaces. Maintaining a compact campus the central campus urban design economy. Facilities are increasingly Several models of to reinforce a cultural connection to the renovations and expansion of existing where academic and community study will expand to include future built in response to research priorities, city; the School of Music and recital hall buildings and by redevelopment of interaction is strengthened by proximity building sites as far north as Elm Street, enhancements in the quality of campus future campus growth, redevelopment and will be located along University Avenue, Plann ing ensures infrastructure capacity meets currently underutilized sites in the is critical. addressing those sites in the context of functions and student life and the level preservation are under reinforcing the building's academic area. Defining edges and corridors the open spaces they are intended to of services provided to the public. The relationship with the campus. future expansion needs define. s tudy. Models include Th e s tudy's principal goal is to To further these principles, priority University's prominence in education The building w ill also feature sh ared and research w ill undoubtedly be projections of building service and support space, individual uilding space on the MU campus summer-will add needed capacity reflected in continuing facilities growth density, land use and lobby and lounge space, individual-and has grown by an average of about for future utility needs. Built in the and renewal, as will interdisciplinary open space that, from group-practice instrument and voice B2 percent per year over the last 20 early 1920s, the last upgrade to this PLANNING PRINCIPLES teaching and research ventures among the standpoint of land space, classrooms and library space. years, requiring prudent planning of system occurred in the mid-1950s. MU's colleges. capacity, are appropriate utility supply and infrastructure capacity REINFORCE THE UNIVERSITY MISSION & VALUES: Organize facilities PLANNING & DESIGN INTEGRITY: Provide facilities and grounds that meet for areas of campus. Adminis trati ve and d epartmenta l Utility distribution and places to promote MU's mission and values. the functional needs of the institution and that comply with the intent of the Design Future Smart Growth: Helping to upgrades to meet increasing campus Models also indicate an support space for the School of Music PRIDE OF THE STATE: Express the importance of the campus to the state, Princip les to p rovide an overall aesthetical and pleasing campus experience. needs. As in all areas of campus, utility overcome fiscal uncertainty additional future building will be organized around a central production and distribution capacity nation and world. ENHANCE COMMUNITY SPIRIT: Locate campus fun ctions in close proximity to enhance scholarly activities and social interaction within a safe and secure While the grow th of future facilities capacity in the order of 4 atrium extending to the second level of Power Plant capacity upgrade is a "50-year" planning decision. DIVERSITY WITH THE UNITY: Crea te and maintain campus settings that bring together the diversity of people, heritages and culture. campus. w ill continue, the unpredictable million to 6 million gross the building. Electric generation capacity added Computer modeling is used to identify STRONG 'SENSE OF PLACE': Make the campus a distinctively meaningful ALLOW FOR PRUDENT EXPANSION OF CAMPUS FUNCTIONS: Provid e for nature of capital funding, however, square feet. The existing Display, studio space to expand in 2001 should meet campus needs for needed capacity improvements in and memorable p lace for all members of the University commtmity and for the facilities expansion in ways that respect neighbors and effectively utilize limited r e quires MU to be increasingly campus building area is 14.6 million gross The intent of the Smart Growth Strategy 15-20 years, but a Combined Heat and electric, steam and water distribution citizens of Missouri. land resources, while conserving and protecting natural resources. The Fine Arts Building, which will PEDESTRIAN DOMINANCE: Maintain a p ed estrian-dominant campus prudent in calculating fiscal effects of square feet, of which 6.5 million gross is to defer and/ or reduce additional Power upgrade project, replacing an systems, critical to campus growth. RESPECT NATURAL & ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE: Design facilities to future facilities. A critical part of this continue to house theatre and art respect the scale, materials and textures embodied in the historic architecture recognizing and gracefully accommodating the need for bicycles and vehicles. square feet has been constructed in the infrastructure investment by identifying existing boiler, is needed to meet campus Future campus growth areas calculation is anticipating infrastructure last 25 years. Density and use projections ways of more efficiently utilizing personnel and facilities, will be expanded steam needs for another 15-20 years. The and natural landscape of the campus. TRANSPORTATION & VEHICLE CIRCULATION: Maintain a safe, functional ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY: Embrace suitable s trategies in and aesthetically compatible system of transportation, vehicle circulation and investment in the utilities, roads, and are also geared to strengthen relationships land and infrastructure resources and renovated to provide need ed space new boiler is designed to burn greater Two major, long-term growth areas parking. and increased visibility. The existing art of the campus, the Southeast Gateway promoting sustainable sites, water efficiency, energy and atmosphere, materials parking necessary to support campus between teaching, research, residential and optimizing development. With quantities of renewable fuels, such as and resources, and indoor envirorunental quality. RESPOND TO ACCESSIBILITY NEEDS: Continue the tradition of providing grow th. Further, it is incumbent that and social functions. objective principles for development gallery will be replaced by an enlarged, and the East Campus, have sufficient optimal access to persons with disabilities. wood chips. Several other Power Plant RECRUITMENT-RETENTION: Emphasize the qualities of the camp us that help future development occurs in a cost­ phasing, campus densities, land use, multistory display gallery that will also steam distribution capacity to ac­ attract and keep students, faculty and staff. Projected, too, is n ew development projects in design include replacing FACILITIES & GROUNDS STEWARDSHIP: Preserve the quality and utility of effective, sustainable and productive and conservation patterns, this strategy serve as shared lobby and reception space cooling towers and fuel-handling systems commodate foreseeable building existing facilities for sustainable use of established resources. that can be accommodated before for both departments. Additional studio expansion. Upgrades in distribution way. Such "productivity" includes central heating and cooling plants must allows a rigorous framework for that will facilitate the use of renewable the stewardship of the resources and determining where, when and how to space w ill be added for art department fuels and improve energy efficiency. lines will eventually be necessary be upgraded or expanded, and where functions; and an interior connection to serve the long range "build-out" qualities that distinguish the Mizzou localized constraints in utility distribution locate new facilities. With the overlay of A major steam capacity upgrade project Additional Information from the new lobby to the south end of capacity of these areas, based on campus a nd its relationship to the networks require new investment to the Smart Growth Strategy, the campus - included in the campus capital plan for the building will provide a functional and projections of appropriate building MU CAMPUS MASTER PLAN ONLINE: Columbia community. This is smart support facilities development. Similarly, plan will make the stewardship of aesthetic enclosure connecting the art and several years and scheduled to begin this density and use. http:/ / www.cf.missouri.edu/ masterplan/ index.htrnl growth! road improvements and parking required campus resources an integral part of theatre departments. The 2008 Campus Master Plan public fomm will be from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., Wednesday, March 12, in Mark Twain Room, Memorial Union. Based on an assessment of the fiscal to serve new facilities growth are also the quality of campus and community a nd r esource impacts of various projected. life. 2 3 MU Campus Master Plan Main Campus • Projects Recently Completed • Projects in the Planning Stage 28 East Campus Chiller Plant Regional Overview South Farm & Lemone Industrial Park 1 Schweitzer Hall addition/ renovation I 2 Upgrade Hitt Street closed-campus barriers 29 Equine Facility 3 Clinical Support & Education Building ••••••• 30 Proposed Bike Trail [GetAbout Columbia Project] 4 Brain Imaging Center 31 Rothwell Plaza 5 Pulsed Power Laboratory 32 School of Music/Performing Arts Center 6 Research Reactor Center addition 33 Stadium Road Substation expansion 7 International Institute for Nano & Molecular Medicine Child & Family Sciences (to be sited) 8 Research Park Chiller Plant School of Health Professions (to be sited) 0 Project School of Nursing (to be sited) State Historical Society of Missouri (to be sited) 9 Coneflower Garden Mizzou Botanic Garden Projects D Projects in Design or Construction 34 Ericaceous Garden Projects in Design or Construction 10 Regional Biocontainment Laboratory D 35 McAlester Arboretum 1 RADIL facility 11 Elm Street entrance improvements 36 Hosta Collection • Projects in the Planning Stage 12 Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute 37 Stephens Pond site improvements 13 Thomas & Nell Lafferre Hall addition/ renovation Lew is and Clark Swine Research & Education Facility (to be sited) 14 Power Plant upgrades 15 Steam Tunnel upgrade 16 National Plant & Genetics Security Center [USDA facility] 17 Student Center expansion/Brady Commons renovation Lemone 18 Mid-Campus Housing Industrial 19 Parking Structure #7 - Southeast Gateway Park 20 University Hospital Patient Care Tower and Ellis Fischel Cancer Center 21 UMHC Orthopaedic Institute 22 Virginia Avenue extension 23 Mick Deaver Drive extension 24 Life Science Incubator ·-- 25 Bike lane and bike route marking [GetAbout Columbia Proj 0 Mizzou Botanic Garden Projects 26 Plant Evaluation Site 27 Eighth Street Circle Planting South Farm

Existing Buildings A Jesse Hall ..,_ B C Ellis Library D Memorial Union E Bond Life Sciences Center F Research Reactor G Heinkel Building H Agriculture Building Base Maps Legend J Clydesdale Hall K Student Recreation Complex University land, largely pedestrian but including service drives and L Reynolds Alumni Center small parking areas Existing university buildings ... Possible future structures . D Parking ...... rn Parking structures ···..• ····.. .············ c:s:::J Major wa lks* : ··· .... DRAFT 3•1•08 .... · 0 Major bikeways* Comments and questions should be sent to the chair of the Campus Planning Committee, 142C Stanley Han; e-mail address: [email protected]. Revis~d edition scheduled f_or Ma!ch 2009. *Note: Many walkways and bikeways are shown straight for diagrammatic clarity; in actuality many will be For more information, see the MU Campus Master Plan web s1te at http:/ / www.d.m1ssoun.edu/ curved and shaped to topography, planting and buildings. masterplan/ index.html.