CHAPTER 5 THE PLAN Ten-Year Projects • A Campus of Neighborhoods Improving a Sense of Campus Community • Connecting the Campus Supporting the Campus The Campus Plan provides a comprehensive framework for making decisions about capital investments and development initiatives. It introduces ambitious new projects and initiatives intended to integrate growth with minimal impact on neighbors and the environment while safeguarding the very qualities that make the Princeton campus so special. This chapter presents the plan from two viewpoints—geographically and thematically—making it possible to understand the campus holistically as a family of distinct but interrelated neighborhoods with unique and shared infrastructure. A class meeting in front of 1879 Hall Aerial view of the campus, 2006 The Campus Plan is not only about buildings, however. Building to meet present needs Equally important are projects that support campus life and Most of the Campus Plan projects create spaces for the enhance the infrastructure, open spaces, and circulation University’s most critical new academic initiatives and other that support and connect the campus. The map shows current and planned programs, and needed supporting a wide range of landscape and environmental restoration infrastructure. projects, athletic fi eld improvements, parking facilities, Examples of projects to meet current needs include the and infrastructure including data and power supply; road, Arts and Transit Neighborhood (B1-3), where the Peter B. rail, bus, and shuttle facilities; bike paths; and stormwater Lewis Center for the Arts will be located, Whitman College management improvements. These elements are fully coor- and the reconstructed Butler College (B5) to support a dinated and integrated in an overall vision for the campus. planned increase in the undergraduate population, and new Taking all of these projects together, the total affected playing fi elds such as the planned Roberts Stadium (A2). area of the campus is signifi cant. Adding up the colored Numerous supporting infrastructure projects are areas on the map, 127 acres of land will be largely recon- needed to enable the realization of these planned programs. structed, fully one-third of the approximately 380 acres of The new parking facility (P5) will both support new growth the contiguous main campus. Also shown are approximately and replace parking displaced by development. Streicker 50 acres of landscapes and natural areas that will be Bridge (F4) is a planned footbridge across Washington restored. Road that will allow for crucial interdepartmental Much of this area is concentrated in a broad southern connections between several existing and new buildings “belt” of new development, stretching across the entire in the Natural Sciences Neighborhood, as well as pedestrian campus, from the Arts and Transit Neighborhood on crossing between the Ellipse and athletics areas. Alexander Street to the Butler Tract on Harrison Street. This Preparing for the future sweeping arc of new growth will transform the southern Other projects are more strategic in nature. While they edge of campus, redefi ning its relationship to the lake valley, may address a current need, they have been planned in and creating new gateways to visitors arriving from Route 1. Ten-Year Projects such a way as to prepare the campus to better support long-term strategic objectives of growth, sustainability, PROJECTS SERVE TO IMPLEMENT and management of its demands on infrastructure. These THE PLAN forward-thinking initiatives will ensure that the University The Princeton Campus Plan is unprecedented in the • Campus sustainability initiatives (pages 160 to 165). has fl exibility in the future without compromising the University’s history for its comprehensiveness. It touches The many projects shown in the Ten-Year Projects Map, • Development programs for which a site has not yet needs of the present. on nearly every facet of the physical space of the campus, as well as initiatives not shown, such as wayfi nding and been selected. For example, the stormwater management plan from buildings to landscape, from signage to campus sustainability, will collectively serve to realize the physical • Building projects of a very small scale, or interior includes the creation of an infi ltration and retention bed shuttles. The uniqueness of Princeton’s campus is the way implementation of the Campus Plan. renovations, which do not have a campus planning below the planned east athletic fi elds (S5) that will provide in which these elements are integrated in a complete space, Enhancing the existing campus impact (in other words, which result in no fundamental additional capacity for future growth while protecting the a strength that this plan reinforces. In addition to the many While there is no longer available space for major construc- change of land use or physical design of the campus). health of the natural watershed and reducing the impacts projects and initiatives specifi cally shown, the Campus Plan tion within the Core Campus, the plan includes numerous of runoff on streams and valleys. The relocation of the Data provides an ongoing forum and a context for innumerable projects that continue the University’s stewardship of this THE SCOPE OF THE CAMPUS PLAN Center (B4) will allow for the expansion of this mission- decisions that will affect the physical design and functioning signifi cant historic area, while ensuring that it can continue critical facility at a new site, making use of proximity to the of the campus over the next decade. A wide range of issues The map shows the ambitious scale of the University’s plans to meet the functional needs of a modern institution. The power plant for backup power and cooling, while removing can now be framed and explored by asking the question, for the next decade. reconstruction of Holder Court (L2), Cannon Green, and an incompatible land use from the Prospect Avenue neigh- “How would this concept fi t into the Campus Plan?” One measure of this scale is quantity: 70 individual other spaces will restore the historic splendor of these land- borhood, thus allowing for future uses more in keeping with projects are indicated in seven major categories. Some of scapes, while subtly accommodating the need for vehicular the character of that area. The renovation of Frick, Hoyt, these, such as the Arts and Transit Neighborhood, include access, high pedestrian traffi c, reunion tents, and other THE TEN-YEAR PROJECTS MAP and Green halls (R6-8) will create space for the long-term numerous sub-projects. By the time this book is published, factors that have damaged these original spaces over time. The map that follows summarizes most of the capital growth of the humanities and social sciences, which would many of these projects will already be in the process of Other projects are intended to enhance areas of post- projects proposed by the Campus Plan, or integrated with otherwise have few expansion options. implementation, and some will be complete. it, for the ten-year period from 2006 to 2016. While a large war development, extending the sense of the campus, and New building construction over the ten-year planning number of projects are included, some proposals cannot be better connecting these areas to the core. Along Shapiro period will total approximately 2.1 million square feet in shown on a map, or are not technically part of the Campus Walk in the Prospect Avenue and William Street Neighbor- eight major projects. Approximately 850,000 square feet Plan. Projects not shown on the next page include: hood, for example, a landscape program (L13) will add of existing buildings will be renovated for new uses, and pathways and create a richer palette of plantings, creating • Wayfi nding and signage program (pages 140 to 145). approximately 150,000 square feet of new administrative more attractive and walkable outdoor spaces for this part • Transportation demand management and campus transit and support space will be provided off campus. of campus. systems (pages 146 to 157). 74 The Plan: Neighborhoods PRINCETON CAMPUS PLAN 75 LANDSCAPE PROJECTS N EXjjXlJk% F Landscape project site area :_XickfeJk% 0’ 200’ 400’ 600’ 1/ MILE c[\eJk% 4 DliiXpGc% Constructed woodland Garden restorations B11 S R9 Soils, planting, and restoration L2 R4 R6 Tree planting areas (campus canopy) N`cc`XdJk% L1 Forbes College Green Ten-Year Projects R8 L2 Holder Court L3 Blair Walk extension R7 L13 Illustrating all of the projects proposed by the L4 New South Green L5 Whitman College R2 B9 F6 B12 Campus Plan, this map serves as a reference L6 Baker Lane Z\iJk% Le`m\ij`kpG guide to new buildings, buildingD\i renovations, L7 Elm Drive constructed woodland L12 L8 Wilson Courtyard landscapes, athletic facilities, housing, parking, B8 R12 Gifjg\Zk8m\% L9 Goheen Walk improvements roadways, public transit, and stormwater projects. L10 Landscape passage: c% fl^_ Eno/Guyot Court to Poe R10 e9fi Gi`eZ\kf L11 Frist Green L14 ej_`g kfeKfn L12 Bendheim Green improvements Gi`eZ\ L13 Shapiro Walk B10 R5 L14 Prospect/Ivy Walk L11 S4 N\jk\ieNXp R11 @mpCe% L15 Washington Road constructed woodland L16 Sciences Green L3 L8 :fcc\^\I[% B13 L17 Stadium passage L5 L18 East Basin constructed woodland R1 F1 B2 L9 L16 P5 L4 L15 ATHLETIC FIELD L10 IMPROVEMENTS B5 L1 B1 9ifX[d\X[ Project site area B3 L6 A1 Lenz Tennis Center improvements =`kqIXe[fcg_I[% B15 A4 L17 A2 Roberts Stadium (soccer) F4 S5 A3 Bedford Field F2 L18 A4 Practice fi elds B7 A5 Clarke Field relocation F7 A6 Rugby fi eld L7 B6 S6 A6 P1 A5 A2 F3 PARKING PROJECTS ? Parking lots P4 X i A1 i` Parking garages P2 F8 j S3 B14 f P1 Lot 19 expansion (Graduate College) eJ F7 BUILDING PROJECTS P2 Dinky commuter lot k % Project site area B4 P3 Lot 23A expansion New structures A3 F5 P4 Lot 20 reconfi guration B1 Peter B.