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
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Campus neighborhoods are geographic The idea of campus neighborhoods is also areas defi ned by commonalities of a tool for planning, so that new buildings character, use, or activity, such as the arts do not become individual monuments, but or the natural sciences. They break down instead are woven into the landscape and the scale of Princeton’s large campus into infrastructure of their surroundings, avoiding comprehensible districts, often in support a series of “projects” that feel disconnected View of the Campus Plan model of interdisciplinary collaboration between from each other and from the campus. departments. The word “neighborhood” as it is used here connotes a sense of social In addition to the Core Campus, four and academic community organized within emerging campus neighborhoods make up a distinct physical space. the heart of the Campus Plan—these are the areas which will undergo the greatest transformation over the next ten years.
78 The Plan: Neighborhoods PRINCETON CAMPUS PLAN 79 Model view: Core Campus (from Nassau Street looking south) Core Campus Neighborhood Balancing preservation and modern needs
Most observers will immediately associate the physical likely be the last major construction projects in the Core presence of the Core Campus with the very identity of Campus. They complete a sweeping arc of undergraduate Princeton University. This cherished space is distinguished housing fi rst envisioned as a campus planning concept by by its vast and diverse collection of historically signifi cant Ralph Adams Cram in 1908. Other building projects in the architecture, including three national historic landmarks Core Campus include the planned expansion of health and (Nassau Hall, Maclean House, and Prospect House) recreation facilities, for which several potential locations are and many important works by some of the most notable under consideration, including the “Dillon Pit”—a sunken American architects of the 19th and early 20th centuries, terrace south of the Dillon Gymnasium—and the possible including Benjamin Latrobe, John Notman, McKim Mead reconfi guration of the McCosh Health Center. & White, Ralph Adams Cram, and Richard Morris Hunt. A signifi cant focus of the plan is placed on the en- Although many architectural styles are represented, the hancement of the historic landscapes of the Core Campus. Core Campus has a coherence resulting from a history of A comprehensive landscape strategy includes the revital- judicious campus planning, most notably by Ralph Adams ization of historic gardens, such as Prospect Garden; the Cram in the early 20th century, and from the great attention improvement of processional walks, such as McCosh Walk; given to creating a park-like landscape, fi rst by President the restoration of historic yet actively used campus greens, McCosh and later by pioneering landscape architect Beatrix such as Holder Court; a tree planting and maintenance Farrand. The collegiate gothic architecture added to the program; and soil restoration throughout the neighborhood. campus during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson further The landscape approach will not only enhance the historic defi ned the enduring sense of place that makes the campus beauty and park-like character of the Core Campus, but such a profound aspect of the University’s character. is also necessary to adapt the landscape to the intensive The Campus Plan recognizes that within the Core pressures placed on it by modern functional needs. Campus, very little space remains for signifi cant new The original campus landscape was not designed to development. This densely built area, which nonetheless accommodate the high traffi c and heavy use that occurs maintains a park-like character as a result of the careful today, including vehicular traffi c for maintenance, moving integration of buildings and landscape, has reached a point days, deliveries, and other purposes; heavy pedestrian of substantial completion. As a result, emerging campus activity, including recreational sports such as volleyball; and neighborhoods surrounding the core are the principal areas the large crowds and construction of tents, platforms, and of focus of the Campus Plan. The four other neighborhoods other structures that occur regularly for commencement, discussed in this chapter will absorb most of the projected reunions, and other events. Like Farrand’s early plan for the new growth on campus in the next ten years and beyond campus, the plan creates resilient landscapes that are more and thus require signifi cant attention to planning and resistant to damage from these factors, while also requiring design. less maintenance and improving environmental sustainabil- There are nonetheless a range of issues within the ity through measures such as the passive reuse of rainwater Core Campus that are addressed by the Campus Plan. Most instead of irrigation. New standards for soils, planting, and of the initiatives of the plan in this neighborhood support paving will support these goals and buttress the health of the University’s role as the ongoing steward of its historic historic trees. The introduction of young trees in the Core legacy, while at the same time ensuring that the Core Cam- Campus will create a successive generation of tree canopy pus continues to serve as the vibrant and active home for and mitigate the potential loss of distinctive older trees. Rendering of Blair Walk restoration Rendering of Holder Court restoration some of the most central functions of the institution, includ- Together these initiatives will ensure the preservation ing academics, administration, and undergraduate life. The and sustainability of the qualities that make Princeton’s plan reinforces and builds upon Princeton’s long experience Core Campus one of the nation’s most signifi cant academic in striking an appropriate balance between preservation settings—the very place where the word “campus” was fi rst and the operation of a modern institution. used to refer to the grounds and buildings of a university. As the Campus Plan took shape, the new Whitman College and Butler College dormitories were under con- struction. Designed to accommodate an expansion of the undergraduate class by 500 students, these structures will
80 The Plan: Neighborhoods PRINCETON CAMPUS PLAN 81 Model view: Arts and Transit Neighborhood
Arts and Transit
Univer Neighborhood MCCARTER THEATRE sity Creating a cultural and transportation hub Place WHITMAN that is both a campus and community COLLEGE destination EXPERIMENTAL BERLIND MEDIA STUDIO THEATRE
Unlike the historical development of cloistered enclosures traditions of campus and town planning in Princeton. separating the University from its surroundings, the new The buildings will be designed by a variety of architects, Arts and Transit Neighborhood at the western edge of establishing a diversity of architectural expression within campus will form a public space that is a nexus of both a coherent whole created by the neighborhood planning campus and community life. New public plazas will comple- framework. ARTS ment Princeton’s existing public spaces—Palmer Square, Before this vision for a mixed-use arts neighborhood PLAZA NEW SOUTH the Scudder Plaza fountain, and Hinds Plaza at the public can be implemented, many layers of transportation infra- library—with a focal point for cultural life. New activities in structure in the area must be reconfi gured into a coherent LEWIS CENTER FOR the area will build upon and strengthen the longstanding and functional system. The project itself will not generate THE ARTS presence of two anchors of the Princeton community: the new traffi c—in fact it will reduce peak-hour traffi c by re- McCarter Theatre Center and the New Jersey Transit Dinky placing administrative offi ces with cultural uses. However, PRINCETON the roads and transit facilities in the area were not originally railroad station. UNIVERSITY
The neighborhood will be the home of the new Peter B. designed to handle the volume of regional and commuter Alexander St. ART MUSEUM Lewis Center for the Arts. According to President Tilghman, traffi c they now support. Changing regional traffi c patterns, SATELLITE the center will enable the University “not only to expand its growth of town and campus, and the increasing appeal of programs in the creative and performing arts, but to estab- the Dinky to daily commuters and other users have all led lish itself as a global leader in the quality of its offerings and to signifi cant traffi c congestion. Any revitalization must in their integration into a broader liberal arts education.” The improve traffi c and transit facilities to create a more FORBES neighborhood will support academic programs in theater, functional and attractive site. COLLEGE dance, and music (which will also maintain its presence A comprehensive upgrade of this regional transporta- in Woolworth Hall) with new teaching, rehearsal, and tion center will include the reconfi guration of the roadway DINKY administrative spaces. Shared performance venues will network with a roundabout to reduce traffi c congestion, STATION include a black box theater, a fi lm theater, an experimental and the creation of a multi-modal transportation hub. This LOT 7 media studio, and a performance hall with a fl y loft and proposed “Transit Plaza” will serve rail commuters and TRANSIT GARAGE orchestra pit. A new building for the Princeton University provide connections for cars, taxis, buses, a community PLAZA Art Museum will complement the existing museum with jitney, campus shuttles, and bicycles, as well as the future galleries for contemporary and rotating exhibits, teaching bus rapid transit service proposed by New Jersey Transit. spaces, and a museum lounge/café and shop. A new Dinky station building, with improved amenities for In addition to their teaching function, the new perfor- commuters including retail space, as well as the relocated mance venues will host University-produced performances 24-hour Wawa store, will face the pedestrian-oriented and other activities that will be open to the public. Com- plaza. bined with the art museum and the existing McCarter and Public parking for Dinky commuters and other users Berlind theaters, the neighborhood will become a vibrant will be replaced, while parking for visitors to the new arts cultural destination for the region. Restaurants, cafés, and facilities and McCarter and Berlind theaters can be provided other public amenities will support the needs of visitors, in the University’s existing Lot 7 garage, utilizing capacity while also appealing to faculty, staff, and students, as well created by the reassignment of some University employees as to the many riders of the Dinky and other transit services to the proposed new parking facility east of Washington in the area. Road. As a result of road and track realignments, the Lot 7 These spaces will not all be housed in a single large garage will be accessible directly from Alexander Street. structure but in a “village” of smaller buildings, compatible Taken together, the proposed transportation improve- with the scale and texture of the surroundings, and inter- ments, retail, public spaces, and buildings for the arts will spersed with plazas and landscaped open spaces following create a lively and attractive gateway to the township and borough of Princeton as well as to the University.
82 The Plan: Neighborhoods PRINCETON CAMPUS PLAN 83 University arts facilities Arts and Transit Neighborhood framework plan CONNECTIONS TO THE CAMPUS
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University Art Museum, 185 Nassau Street, and myriad Le`m\ij`kpGc% 13 theater, rehearsal, gallery, and studio spaces will continue to College Road serve the arts communities on campus and throughout the @mpCe% region. This strategy supports the “edge-to-edge deploy- 2 9 8 NXj_`e^kfeI[% ment” of the arts on campus recommended by President 5 16 SPELMAN Tilghman’s 2006 Creative and Performing Arts Initiative. 10 5 Whitman Drive MCCARTER HALLS 11 THEATRE
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1 Rocky/Mathey Theatre 7 Princeton University 12 McAlpin Auditorium WHITMAN ive 2 McCarter Theatre Center Art Museum Woolworth Center of COLLEGE Musical Studies 11 3 Richardson Auditorium 8 Wilson Dance Studio 13 Frist Campus Center 6 4 Dillon Gym Dance Studio 9 Wilcox Theatre 14 185 Nassau Street 5 Class of 1970 Theatre 10 Butler College 4 Whitman College Memorial Court 15 Bernstein Gallery 1 NEW Alexander Street SOUTH 6 Theatre Intime 11 Peter B. Lewis Rehearsal 16 Taplin Auditorium Space (Bloomberg) 17 New Carl A. Fields Center 7 9 Pedestrian connections 15 The Arts and Transit Neighborhood will create a gateway ;`Zb`ejfeJk% gh 1 Le`m FORBES 3 to both the campus and the surrounding community for Princeton Borou COLLEGE BAKER \ij`kpG visitors arriving by car, bus, train, and bike, with a new ton Township RINK Prince
pathway network radiating into the campus and connecting c% :fcc\^\I[% 9C8@IN8CB 10 the Dinky station to Nassau Street. The historic Blair Walk, 200 ELM designed by Beatrix Farrand in the 1920s as a pedestrian 8 DRIVE promenade into the Core Campus, will be extended to the new station. New public plazas, animated by retail and arts 14 activities, will form a crossroads for campus and town walk- 13 >F?< New buildings 8c\oXe[\i Campus paths COGEN Parking lot PLANT Roadway improvements J k % 12 Building renovation Development site Pedestrian pathways N PROPOSED PROJECTS 0’ 100’ 200’ Arts and Retail Facilities Public Spaces and Amenities Infrastructure S 1 Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts 5 Blair Walk extension 10 New Dinky station 14 Potential bus rapid transit 2 Experimental Media Studio 6 New South Green 11 New roundabout 15 Baker Lane 3 Princeton University Art Museum 7 Arts Plaza 12 New Dinky commuter satellite 8 Transit Plaza parking lot 4 Repurposed Dinky buildings 9 Forbes Green 13 Improved roadways for retail 84 The Plan: Neighborhoods PRINCETON CAMPUS PLAN 85 The new Arts and Transit Neighborhood is carefully planned to provide a 21st century mixed-use transit hub. The incorporation of a new Le`m\ij`kpGc% L ;@CCFE e ;@CCFE :fcc\^\I[% :fcc\^\I[% `m\ij`kpGc% >PD Transit Plaza into the plan is an important environmental fi rst step. >PD The Transit Plaza will provide an improved station for the Dinky, stops for a proposed community jitney, a stop for University shutt les, bike rental and storage, and dedicated space for a possible future bus rapid D::8IK A GREEN PRINCETON in the facility by three-quarters of a mile in each direction. This in turn ;@EBP JK8K@FE N?@KD8E N?@KD8E reduces the associated carbon emissions. Through energy effi cient :FCC<>< :FCC<>< design, new buildings in the neighborhood will perform signifi cantly fl^_ E N8N8 arts in society 98B< :FCC<>< I am tempted to rely on that over-used, misapplied word KI8EJ@K :FDDLK< CFK. it. But the term is wholly inaccurate because, innovative as it is, >8I8>< =8:@C@KP >8I8>< the concept is not disruptive. In fact, it is just the opposite: the realization of the necessity of art as a full and integral part of fi rst-rate, higher education combined with a recognition of Improved roadways Facilities serving how artists work. The notion of the solitary writer, painter, < commuters d; musician, is an attractive myth (but even van Gogh had i i New buildings % % :FDDLK Transportation infrastructure, 2006 Transportation infrastructure, 2016 or lyrics, narrative, music composition, video, photography, theater performances, architects, dance choreography, fi lm). And I can’t think of any who did not rely on or produce TRAFFIC AND TRANSIT The proposed design reconfi gures appropriate scholarship. The redesign of the roadway network at the Arts and Transit Neighborhood will alleviate So innovative as it is, the center is also natural, organic, roadways, the Dinky rail line, existing congestion by reducing peak-hour traffi c-generating land uses and by eliminating and parking areas to improve the concentration of confl icting traffi c movements at the intersection of Alexander Street “… indispensable” as President Tilghman has said, “to and University Place (see Traffi c section, page 152). A new roundabout will remove a traffi c Princeton University’s special version of liberal arts education.” traffi c fl ows and create a multi- light and nearby parking at the problematic intersection. It will encourage the natural fl ow While I am not certain, I don’t believe there is another univer- modal transportation hub at of traffi c toward University Place and provide an arrival point to both the campus and sity in the country which has committed itself so concretely community when approaching from the south. to the view of intellectual life as defi cient without serious the new station, which can also A new signalized pedestrian crossing at Forbes College will move pedestrians away attention to the arts. Not just for the aspiring professional from the vehicular intersection. Further to the south, the Transit Plaza will reduce traffi c accommodate potential bus artist: not limited to an amiable pastime available in separate congestion by providing off-the-road access to the Wawa and the drops-offs for a commu- enclaves; but an assumption that art is an intellectual pursuit rapid transit service. nity jitney, the Dinky, and the arts venues. By removing these functions from the intersection Model photo of Arts and Transit Neighborhood looking east toward —struck, perhaps, by lightning bolts of inspiration; inoperable of Alexander Street and University Place, the proposed redesign will maintain a smoother the Natural Sciences Neighborhood fl ow and more controlled distribution of traffi c. A road linking to Lot 7 garage will draw without the power of the imagination, but a pursuit deeper University employees, visitors, and patrons of the arts directly from Alexander Street. and much more profound than even the talent and genius of The existing administrative uses and parking lots on the site contribute to peak-hour its purveyors. Princeton University is a natural habitat for morning and afternoon traffi c as employees travel to and from work. The replacement of such a pursuit. these uses with cultural and retail uses will reduce peak hour volumes since the new uses Excerpts from remarks by will draw visitors to the neighborhood in the evenings, afternoons, or weekends when the roads are less congested. Although all the public and commuter parking spaces that are Toni Morrison currently on the site will be replaced in kind, University-related parking will be reduced Goheen Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus at the site. April 19, 2007 86 The Plan: Neighborhoods PRINCETON CAMPUS PLAN 87 Model view: Natural Sciences Neighborhood Natural Sciences Neighborhood Fostering scientifi c collaboration in a natural setting GUYOT MOFFET The natural sciences represent one of the most dynamic teaching continues to be emphasized in addition to LEWIS LIBRARY PEYTON areas of growth and change at Princeton. Rapid advances research. As a result, the new Chemistry building will SCHULTZ in the sciences continue to generate new fi elds of inquiry, include more fume hoods and lab benches than would which require larger research buildings of ever-increas- be required for a pure research space. THOMAS FINE ing technological sophistication. New interdisciplinary A structure like the Chemistry building would be vastly programs have been created, including the Lewis-Sigler out of scale if it were located within the Core Campus. PRINCETON SCIENCES STADIUM Institute for Integrative Genomics and the Princeton The planning strategy instead positions these buildings at GREEN Neuroscience Institute, and longstanding scientifi c the southern edge of campus, where the natural landscape ICAHN disciplines such as chemistry can no longer accommodate of robust woodlands and ravines will provide an appropri- JADWIN PHYSICS modern laboratory-based research in the aging buildings ate visual and experiential buffer to their size, as well as a that house them. pastoral view from offi ces and labs. A modern architectural The Campus Plan proposes new buildings for chem- vocabulary, emphasizing lightness and transparency, will istry, neuroscience, and psychology as part of a signifi cant characterize these structures, reducing their apparent size expansion and consolidation of science departments and relating them to the scenic surroundings in a very STREICKER into a Natural Sciences Neighborhood at the south end different way than the stone and brick buildings of the BRIDGE CHEMISTRY of Washington Road. Such concentration has signifi cant upper campus. advantages. In the words of President Tilghman, speaking The design of this neighborhood will actually improve NEUROSCIENCE of the Neurosciences Institute, “To forge a true community rather than degrade the natural ecology of the site. New & PSYCHOLOGY Was of scholars, with shared facilities and instruments, we plan buildings are located on existing parking lots, resulting in hingt to construct a state-of-the-art neuroscience center in close a net increase in green space over existing conditions today. on Rd. proximity to other scientifi c disciplines, allowing faculty and The surrounding woodlands will be restored and expanded students to move between the institute and their home de- up to and between buildings, improving ecological balance partments with ease. The questions with which the institute by interconnecting fragmented natural areas. Stormwater will grapple are among the most exciting in the scientifi c runoff, currently directed to an overstressed and eroded world today, and the creative collaborations, serendipitous streambed along Washington Road, will be recaptured for discoveries, and intellectual advances that lie ahead will use as gray water within buildings, with the excess directed shape the face of neuroscience in this country and beyond.” to “biofi ltration” areas: landscapes that are both aesthetic Streicker Bridge, a pedestrian footbridge across Wash- and functional. These measures will allow the stream to be ington Road designed by the distinguished Swiss engineer restored, further enhancing the natural balance of the entire Christian Menn, will reinforce these connections by linking Washington Road valley. multiple buildings that have previously been separated by Combined with the advanced sustainability measures this major roadway. Outdoor pathways and basement-level planned for the Chemistry, Neuroscience, and Psychology passages will link buildings on either side of the road like a buildings, the Natural Sciences Neighborhood will be one “ladder,” with the bridge and the Goheen Walk crosswalk of the most environmentally sustainable areas of campus. acting as the rungs. Appropriately, scientists and students in the natural One signifi cant challenge of the Natural Sciences sciences will be able to experience and appreciate the Neighborhood design is integrating the increasing size and implementation of environmental principles in their daily bulk of modern research buildings into the human scale of surroundings. the campus. The large mass of these buildings is due partly to their stringent requirements for high-technology systems and equipment, and partly to the fact that, at Princeton, 88 The Plan: Neighborhoods PRINCETON CAMPUS PLAN 89 Natural Sciences Neighborhood framework plan CONNECTIONS TO THE CAMPUS Ivy gh :_Xickfe La rou The planning framework for the Natural Sciences Neighbor- DliiXp ne Bo EXjjXlJk% Princeton hood has been guided by a deliberate strategy to create GUYOT PEYTON Township ton >I< will establish the neighborhood as one of the gateways to =I@:B8E;?FPK F the campus, with Streicker Bridge as the iconic arrival point. c[\eJk% FINE 6 The bridge will be part of a larger network of pedestrian PRINCETON STADIUM connections to tie the neighborhood to the rest of the Gifjg\Zk8m\% GOHEEN WALK campus. MCDONNELL Consolidation of academic departments THOMAS 4 While the majority of natural sciences buildings are located 4 south of Ivy Lane and the Frist Campus Center, some @mpCe% POWERS natural sciences departments have been historically housed N8 FIELD in buildings along the northern portion of Washington Road. J?@E>KFEIF8; With the construction of the new Chemistry, Neuroscience, ICAHN and Psychology buildings, all natural sciences departments JADWIN will be consolidated into one neighborhood. Frick Labora- tory, Hoyt Laboratory, and Green Hall will no longer house 3 Humanities and the natural sciences. Instead, they will be made available for social sciences buildings humanities and social sciences departments, thus alleviat- Departments to be 7 relocated ing overcrowding in other academic buildings. This shift in POE/PARDEE Existing natural sciences building uses creates distinct interdisciplinary precincts on :? :_XickfeJk% and western portions of campus. These connections will EXjjXlJk% become especially important for the Natural Science 8 Neighborhood as new buildings straddle the main ad CALDWELL N`cc`XdJk% 1 FIELDHOUSE thoroughfare of Washington Road. The new Streicker Bridge will complete a critical southern link on campus, providing J?8G@IFN8CB ARCHITECTURE a safe and scenic pedestrian passage from the Ellipse to 4 F LAB Princeton Stadium. This new east-west link will be a rung D::FJ?N8CB c[\eJk% in a “ladder” of east-west links on campus. The ladder is composed of a combination of existing and proposed Gifjg\Zk8m\% JADWIN north-south pathways that parallel Washington Road. N8J?@E>KFEIF8; GYMNASIUM Apart from Streicker Bridge, the rungs of the ladder are LOT 20 made up of established crossings at McCosh Walk, Prospect Avenue, Ivy Lane, and Goheen Walk. @mpCe% 5 New buildings Improved campus greens >F?< N PROPOSED PROJECTS 0’ 100’ 200’ East-west campus connections Academic Buildings Landscapes and Stormwater Management Pedestrian Safety S North-south campus 1 Neuroscience and 4 Constructed woodland 8 Woodland path Psychology connections 5 Stream restoration 9 Streicker Bridge 2 Chemistry Indoor connections 6 Sciences Green 10 Washington Road improvements 3 Jadwin Physics loading 7 Chemistry Plaza dock improvement East-west pedestrian pathways 90 The Plan: Neighborhoods PRINCETON CAMPUS PLAN 91 PLANNED PROJECTPLANNED Chemistry Architect: Hopkins Architects of London in collaboration with Payett e Associates of Boston, MA Scale of buildings and open space Landscape Architect: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates While the south end of Washington Road has been an Size: 240,000 – 250,000 square feet appropriate location for science buildings, the scale and bulk Scheduled completion: Fall 2010 of these facilities have made it diffi cult to create the intimate Key features The Chemistry building will be clad primarily in glass and stone panels set in a pedestrian-oriented scale that is characteristic of the structural framework. It will feature state-of-the-art laboratory and teaching spaces on the east historic area of campus. Open spaces such as the Jadwin side of the building with offi ces on the west side of the building facing Washington Road. The two courtyard and the perimeter of the stadium are uninviting wings of the buildings will be joined by a skylit atrium that will feature pedestrian connectors at and disjointed from the active interior life of the build- three levels and public meeting spaces. A new multi-modal pedestrian plaza is being designed at the entrance of the building. In addition to being located at the eastern terminus of the Streicker ings—in contrast to the variety of social outdoor spaces pedestrian bridge, this plaza will serve as an active gathering and circulation space creating an of historic courtyards such as the one in Holder. While the Holder Court Jadwin and Fine halls animated focal point for the Natural Sciences Neighborhood. The building’s design incorporates Holder Court maintains a human-scaled ratio of buildings several “green” features which are discussed in the Green Princeton section of this chapter. to open space, the post-war landscapes on the southern part of campus lack the same proportions and relationships Landscape The landscape design for the Chemistry building takes into account its location HOLDER between interior and exterior. As part of the proposed adjacent to a sensitive stream and existing woodlands, both of which will be enhanced and re- HALL PROPOSED landscape and building designs in the Natural Sciences stored. A nature walk is proposed to run along the building’s western edge, paralleling the stream SCIENCES channel. In addition to providing an opportunity for recreation, this new nature walk will improve GREEN Neighborhood, dynamic pedestrian plazas and redesigned open spaces will bring new life to the outdoor spaces. Tree pedestrian circulation within this neighborhood. The area on the east side of the new Chemistry PRINCETON building will be landscaped to remove the existing parking lot and strengthen the pedestrian JADWIN STADIUM plantings, view corridors, and active façades will enhance HALL connections to the athletics facilities to the east and south and the other science buildings to the the pedestrian qualities of the greens. north. The overall experience of the sciences neighborhood will be further improved by providing a green corridor that connects all the science buildings along Princeton Stadium’s west façade. Historic campus landscapes Post-war campus landscapes PLANNED PROJECTPLANNED Neuroscience and Psychology HOLDER HALL JADWIN HALL PRINCETON STADIUM Architect: Rafael Moneo Arquitecto of Madrid, Spain in collaboration with Davis Brody Bond of New York City Landscape Architect: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Size: 200,000 square feet 0-Ë Key features The Neuroscience and Psychology buildings will take an innovative approach to ,,Ë studying the brain and nervous system by housing two disciplines in separate wings of a shared space. The Department of Psychology and a new Neuroscience Institute will be located in two new buildings that will incorporate classrooms, laboratories, offi ces, meeting rooms, and some +-Ë (,-Ë +'Ë (0'Ë )(-Ë (++Ë specialty spaces, such as a place to house the University’s functional magnetic resonance imag- ing (fMRI) scanner. The buildings will also frame the southeast corner of Poe Field, just west of Washington Road. The northern entrance will have a physical and aesthetic relationship to the new Streicker Bridge, Sciences Green which will connect the buildings to other parts of the Natural Sciences Neighborhood on the The Sciences Green is an open space that lies between eastern side of Washington Road. Princeton Stadium to the east and the natural sciences buildings to the west. It has the potential to be a defi ning central green for the Natural Sciences Neighborhood that frames the bold new architecture of Frank Gehry’s Lewis Library and Michael Hopkins’ Chemistry building. At PLANNED PROJECTPLANNED present this area has a barren underutilized landscape Streicker Bridge that is further weakened by the vehicular ring-road around Designer: Engineer Christian Menn of Switzerland in collaboration with U.S.-based HNTB the stadium. While considering utilitarian issues such as Scheduled completion: 2010 the impact of new loading requirements for Peyton Hall, Key features The design for Streicker Bridge is a curved x-shaped superstructure supported the new design for this area will open up key views through by a single arch. The new bridge will span 300 feet and rise about 23 feet above street level at selective tree removal and re-orient pathways for deep its highest point, serving as a gateway to the campus and the community for vehicles traveling views and north-south connectivity. Additionally, the Sci- north on Washington Road. The bridge will connect the athletics and science buildings on the ences Green will provide a foundation for the development east side of campus with new and existing buildings on the west side of campus, completing a of a new “East Diagonal” that will link this neighborhood critical missing link in the pedestrian route along the southern edge of campus. The approach to to future development along Ivy Lane and Western Way. the bridge on the west side of campus will be framed by the Ellipse, Icahn Laboratory, and the new Neuroscience and Psychology buildings. The eastern terminus of the bridge will land in a new multi-modal pedestrian plaza that provides entry to Jadwin Hall and the proposed Chem- Rendering of proposed Sciences Green istry building, as well as access to Princeton Stadium and other destinations to the east such as athletic fi elds and the proposed new parking facility. 92 The Plan: Neighborhoods PRINCETON CAMPUS PLAN 93 the changing nature of research Princeton stands unique among the world’s “top ten” Nevertheless we face a daunting challenge to keep research universities with its small scale, its singular up with all this, and to stay at the top! Research is ex- faculty committed to teaching undergraduate and pensive and space intensive: new laboratory buildings graduate students, and its emphasis on high-quality with sophisticated facilities, high startup costs for new A GREEN PRINCETON A bird’s eye view of the research across all departments and divisions. As faculty, and the constant need to renew all facets of new Chemistry building showing the solar do their peers at other crucibles of leading research, our existing infrastructure can break any budget. The photovoltaic panels highlighted in blue scholars here pose and answer profound questions that reason is simple—to make progress one must go where could not even have been asked a few years ago. They no one has gone before. As Princeton Nobelist Val Fitch CHEMISTRY BUILDING generate ideas, scientifi c discoveries, and associated once said, “You can’t buy a world’s-best department, In addition to landscape and stormwater strategies that will restore, enhance, and technologies that redefi ne society itself, often within a but you have to pay for it!” In 2007, Princeton research expand the natural areas, the new Chemistry building will incorporate sustainable generation, let alone a lifetime. This relentless progress sponsored by external funding totaled $240 million— building technologies. A series of proposed features will reduce energy demand also spawns risks, side effects, and policy issues of great 22 percent of Princeton’s operating budget. Almost and conserve water. As the highest utility user on campus, this building provides research interest themselves. 90 percent of this research funding was provided by an opportunity to implement aggressive energy effi ciency measures. Extensive high-performance glazing will provide ambient daylighting of interior Contemporary scientifi c research is Today’s research increasingly transcends tradition- agencies of the federal government. It is of great spaces, linked with sensors for control of dimmable electric lighting systems. a study in contrasts: larger and larger al disciplinary boundaries, transforming the modes in concern, therefore, that competition for government Architectural shading elements will decrease solar heat gain in summer. One such which scholars operate. Princeton thrives in this new support has greatly intensifi ed, and institutions are element will be a roof canopy over the atrium interior, with solar photovoltaic scale eff ort to study more and more environment, as interdepartmental relationships have expected to share an increasing fraction of the costs. panels designed to generate electricity. Integrated mechanical systems will enable complex and, typically, ever-smaller always been close, making it easy and natural to create The new Campus Plan strongly and optimally optimal transfer of cooled and heated air from offi ces through the atrium and scale phenomena. The challenge institutes to address new initiatives and provide homes enhances Princeton’s interdisciplinary connections incorporate displacement heating and cooling in the auditorium. High-effi ciency for shared facilities. Among these, the Princeton Envi- among the sciences, and hence its competitiveness laboratory fume hoods with automatic sash closers will reduce both air supply and is to incorporate these large and ronmental Institute and the Princeton Institute for the and attractiveness to outstanding scholars. As a prime exhaust requirements, and heat recovery systems will capture energy from lab Science and Technology of Materials link researchers in example, the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative exhaust. A gray water system will collect and recycle stormwater for non-potable complicated pursuits into the uses. Landscaped rain gardens and biofi ltration areas will retain and fi lter addi- exquisite sett ing at Princeton, the engineering and the sciences as well as in other fi elds. Genomics brings biologists, chemists, physicists, tional building and site stormwater. Princeton researchers also benefi t greatly from the neuroscientists, engineers, and computer scientists paradigm set by the design, diversity, presence of intellectual connections with the Princeton together to perform experiments, simulations, and ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION and execution of the buildings, and Plasma Physics Laboratory and the Geophysical Fluid theoretical research to produce a fundamental under- The experience of a naturalistic woodland sett ing as a feature of daily life has been Dynamics Laboratory at Forrestal, and the neighboring standing of the genome. Connections among molecular a central theme of campus development at Princeton for the last 250 years. In this landscape of the Core Campus. Institute for Advanced Study. biology, physics, and mathematics were fi rmly cement- tradition, early 20th century designer Beatrix Farrand devised a series of pathways The challenge is to architecturally ed by the arrival of the Carl Icahn Laboratory across that drew people southward to Lake Carnegie across a lush stretch of natural wood- the street from Jadwin Hall. By contrast, the current land terrain. However, as vehicular traffi c proliferated, the connection between the control the massing of these new campus greens to the north and the woodlands to the south gradually fragmented, locations of chemistry, neuroscience, and psychology surrendering much of Farrand’s original path network to parking lots, service areas, structures and integrate them into inhibit interactions and sharing of facilities with their and roadways. our campus in a cost-eff ective and natural partners. Fortunately these problems will soon New developments in the sciences neighborhood off er an opportunity to restore environmentally sustainable way. disappear with magnifi cent new buildings and state- the integrity of Farrand’s vision by reuniting the woodlands with the rest of campus of-the-art facilities for chemistry, psychology, and through the introduction of an expanded green belt that will extend northward up This preservation, and in some neuroscience to be located in the same neighborhood Washington Road to Lewis Library. The construction of the woodland threshold and as physics and genomics. the nature paths east and west of the Chemistry building will provide a lush natural ways augmentation, of the natural With the beautiful Streicker Bridge across Wash- sett ing for existing and new buildings from Lake Carnegie to the Frist Campus Cen- and historic beauty of our campus, ington Road and the preservation of the natural ter. It will reinforce the University’s proximity to the natural valley of Lake Carnegie while providing an integrated stormwater system and restored natural habitats. while meeting the goals of our landscape, a spectacular new Science Neighborhood expanding scientifi c portfolio, will be complete. Princeton’s research future is bright indeed! is both demanding and exciting. Undergraduate research in the Lewis-Sigler Institute’s —PAUL LAMARCHE, Integrated Science Program VICE PROVOST A.J. Stewart Smith Dean for Research 94 The Plan: Neighborhoods PRINCETON CAMPUS PLAN 95 Model view: Ivy Lane and Western Way Neighbohood Ivy Lane and Western Way Neighborhood Integrating a once-remote area into the life of the campus and strengthening athletics Ivy Lane and Western Way are two names for one continu- With adequate and convenient parking, employees ous road that crosses the borough and township border as it will be encouraged to walk from their parking spots to work extends east of campus. Encompassing lands on both sides using improved pathways connecting north and west to the of the road, the neighborhood forms the southeast edge of E-Quad, Natural Sciences Neighborhood, and Core Cam- campus, and is home to Princeton Stadium, Clarke baseball pus. As a result, the new facility will reduce dependence on LEWIS fi eld, and other athletics facilities. shuttle buses and avoid the risk that people will seek more Ivy Lane LIBRARY The neighborhood seems farther away from the center convenient parking on neighborhood streets. Traffi c access of campus than it really is, a quality amplifi ed by limited will be from Faculty Road, which with small modifi cations pathways and relatively low activity levels. Despite its will have the capacity to collect commuter traffi c and thus seeming remoteness, this area is gradually becoming more reduce impacts on surrounding neighborhoods. Finally, Wes connected to the center of campus. The Frist Campus Cen- some employees will be reassigned from the Lot 7 garage tern Way ter, located at the geographic center of campus, is in fact near the Arts and Transit Neighborhood, thus freeing up PRINCETON as close to this neighborhood as to the traditional campus space in that facility and avoiding a costly new garage in the STADIUM core to the west. The new Lewis Library, designed by Frank western part of campus. Gehry, is also bringing increased activity to this area. At the same time, the current practice fi elds and The Campus Plan anticipates the continuation into Clarke baseball fi eld will be rebuilt and improved, defi ning WEAVER TRACK & FIELD NEW PARKING the future of the easterly direction of growth begun by the a newly strengthened athletics neighborhood centered on FACILITY library. While the ten-year plan includes no specifi c plans the Caldwell Fieldhouse and replacing the existing parking for new academic buildings in this area, it is a crucial loca- Lot 21. A new rugby fi eld will be added, lighting will be tion for future academic development. The plan establishes improved, and some fi elds will be surfaced with artifi cial CALDWELL FIELD HOUSE the principles and conditions needed to support long-term turf, vastly increasing their utilization. ATHLETIC PRACTICE growth so that, over time, the neighborhood will become a The Data Center currently located at 87 Prospect FIELDS fully integrated part of the future campus. Future develop- Avenue will be relocated out of the area, since its planned DENUNZIO ment will need to provide new open spaces and pathways, expansion, including a signifi cant backup power and cooling POOL strengthen the athletics district, and create an appropriate plant, was deemed not only incompatible with the residen- transition between the larger scale of academic buildings tial context but also a poor use of space in this increasingly FITZRANDOLPH OBSERVATORY and the smaller scale of the residential community to the campus-like area. It will either be moved to the Lot 16 site east. The plan proposes that FitzRandolph Road be the on the west side of campus or to an off-campus site. The limit of future academic development in this neighbor- existing building will be used as administrative space and CLARKE FIELD hood, although support uses that are compatible with the is likely to be demolished eventually. residential context, such as daycare, may be located east of Campus daycare facilities, located at 171 Broadmead, FitzRandolph. will be expanded to a site known as the “Broadmead Fields,” Several projects planned within ten years will begin convenient for employees using the new parking facility integrating more of the Ivy Lane and Western Way Neigh- as well as for faculty and staff who live nearby. Eventually, RUGBY FIELD borhood into the daily life of the campus. daycare facilities may be expanded in this location, creating A parking facility to be located south of Western Way a daycare “village” designed as a set of small-scale buildings will meet the critical demand for new spaces and the loss compatible with the residential surroundings. of other parking areas to development. The facility will Each of these projects will contribute to the increased vitality of the Ivy Lane and Western Way Neighborhood, Fac combine a low-profi le garage set into the hillside with a ulty Rd. landscaped surface parking lot. This concept was developed making it an increasingly signifi cant part of the campus and after an extensive study of alternative sites and strategies, setting the stage for future academic expansion in the area. which determined that of all possible locations for new d. parking, this site was within the closest walking distance of the majority of academic and administrative buildings where Princeton’s commuting employees work. zRandolph R Fit 96 The Plan: Neighborhoods PRINCETON CAMPUS PLAN 97 Ivy Land and Western Way Neighborhood framework plan ATHLETICS AND OPEN SPACE Borough As part of the Campus Planning strategy to achieve greater 12 nceton Pri hip Xp Towns N\jk\ieN integration of landscapes and uses east of Princeton Sta- @mpCe% Princeton dium, the athletic fi elds will move to the south and parking LOT 4 & 25 FUTURE 3 will shift to the north. Flipping the athletic fi elds and the Gi`eZ\kfe9fifl^_ Gi`eZ\kfeKfnej_`g DEVELOPMENT parking on the east side of campus will fortify both the SITE athletics neighborhood and the Lake Carnegie valley. A n Way segmented assortment of open spaces will be consolidated Wester 9ifX[d\X 11 8K?C _I[% increasing the effi ciency and utilization of the fi elds with PRINCETON Bro CFK)( STADIUM adm more resilient playing surfaces. /8:I destinations. Furthermore, its proximity to athletics venues ad 7 9 such as Jadwin Gymnasium and Princeton Stadium provides CXb\:Xie\^`\ ample parking for large evening and weekend events when Project boundary 1 9 the parking facility is not used by commuters. Parking facilities Open space WEAVER TRACK & FIELD FITZRANDOLPH OBSERVATORY Predominantly developed areas and contiguous open space, 2006 9 8 CALDWELL 5 STORMWATER MANAGEMENT FIELD HOUSE 6 ('$D The parking facility and realigned fi elds will be de- `el k\N Xc signed with an integrated stormwater management b EXjjXlJk% (& :_XickfeJk% D ) D system. Runoff from the terraced surface lot will be l DENUNZIO i `c iXpGc% \ JADWIN captured in wide landscape strips that separate the GYMNASIUM POOL enue N`cc`XdJk% 3 Hartley Av parking bays. Runoff from the parking garage will F be directed to a bioswale buff er that separates the c[\eJk% 1 13 ,$D Faculty Road structure from the athletic fi elds to the south. All `el k\ N New structures storm water on the site will be treated and stored Gifjg\Zk8m\% X cb Improved campus greens ( in underground retention basins below the athletic & + Constructed woodland Gi`eZ\kfe9fifl^_ A GREEN PRINCETON fi elds. D ` Z\kfeKfnej_`g c Gi`e Campus paths \ In order to reduce the runoff rates and volumes @mpCe% Parking garage \ieNXp in the area, and in order to take full advantage of N\jk Roadway improvements the detention areas under the athletic fi elds, some Development site of the storm water will be shift ed from adjacent =`k JkX[`ldI[% E g_I[% PROPOSED PROJECTS 0’ 150’ 300’ further deterioration by redirecting runoff from the fX[d\X[ Infrastructure Projects Landscape and Stormwater Support Facilities S Ivy Lane parking lots away from the stream. It will 1 Roadway improvements Management 11 Daycare expansion also reduce the impact of future development on 7 Regional stormwater NXj_ 2 New parking facility 12 Data Center to be relocated infi ltration and retention the East Basin. 3 Sidewalk improvements `e^k (below playing fi elds) Housing feI[% Athletic Facilities 8 East Basin improvements 13 Expansion of Dean Mathey 4 Realigned athletic 9 Constructed woodland Court practice fi elds 10 Stadium landscaping and =XZlckpI[% CXb\:Xie\^`\ 5 New Clarke baseball fi eld ADA access 6 Rugby fi eld Campus population, 2016 101-350 Staff 51-100 Faculty and dean of faculty appointments 26-50 nej_`g Graduate students 1-25 fiKf `e[j Gi`eZ\kfeKfnej_`gN N\jk A walkable parking facility 98 The Plan: Neighborhoods PRINCETON CAMPUS PLAN 99 Model view: Prospect Avenue and William Street Neighborhood Prospect Avenue and William Street Neighborhood Extending the sense of campus Washington Rd. CAMPUS to a mixed area CLUB ROBERTSON SCUDDER PLAZA FRICK GREEN The area east of Washington Road and south of Nassau quadrangle. Planned landscape improvements include ro- Street is one of the fi rst expansions of the campus beyond bust new plantings to enhance the processional character of HOYT the original historic core. Development there began with Shapiro Walk, a modern interpretation of the classic walks the University’s fi rst two science buildings, Frick and Green of the Core Campus designed by Beatrix Farrand. New trees halls, with the intent of extending the gothic character of the and ground treatments, as well as additional pathways, will WALLACE campus across Washington Road. Further implementation encourage greater pedestrian activity throughout the area. 185 of this plan was interrupted by the Great Depression. Frick, Green, and the newer Hoyt Hall, having outlived NASSAU Growth eventually continued in the area, but largely their usefulness as science buildings, will be vacated as without an organizing plan or unifi ed approach to architec- chemistry and psychology relocate to the Natural Sciences Prospect Ave. ture and landscape, resulting in a haphazard neighborhood Neighborhood. They are well-confi gured, with renovations, o Walk ORFE interspersed with streets, parking lots, and utilities such as to serve as expansion space for the adjacent divisions of the Shapir liam St. an electrical transformer station. According to the Princeton humanities and social sciences, consolidating and strength- Wil University Campus Guide, “With the exception of the Eating ening these activities around the Scudder Plaza fountain, FRIEND CARL A. FIELDS CENTER Clubs on Prospect Avenue, the buildings in this precinct an iconic and popular open space. 185 Nassau Street, a CENTER MUDD seldom communicate with one another. Nor does there former elementary school, will continue to serve as a center LIBRARY appear to be an overall plan or design—whether it might for the arts, with expanded visual arts and creative writing be symmetrical, picturesque, or Beaux-Arts—which would programs made possible by the relocation of theater and provide a focus to pull it all together.”1 In recent years, this dance to the planned Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts on neighborhood’s identifi cation as part of the campus has the west side of campus. been strengthened by improvements to Shapiro Walk, The east end of the neighborhood is home to the Olden St. OLDEN STREET the organizing spine of pedestrian movement, and by new E-Quad, a self-contained set of buildings for the School REDEVELOPMENT buildings that better defi ne quadrangles. of Engineering and Applied Science, built in 1962 with ENGINEERING In 1990, the University and Princeton Borough agreed little relation to the surroundings. The plan anticipates a BOWEN QUADRANGLE on the details of a new E3 zoning district, establishing limits large addition between the original buildings and the more HALL ENGINEERING on the amount of new development and providing for ex- recently constructed Bowen Hall, on the site of an existing EXPANSION panded buffers, especially behind the neighboring homes parking lot. Still in the planning stages, the new building will on its eastern edge. In 2005, the University, the borough, conform to the E3 zoning requirements and will enable the and a group of neighbors approved amendments to the engineering school to meet urgent needs for expansion and ordinance increasing the amount of development permit- modernization. ted in the Engineering Quadrangle, but also establishing Prospect Avenue, known colloquially as “the Street,” more detailed requirements within the overall zone. These is home to Princeton’s independently owned and operated emphasize the importance of an effective shuttle system, eating clubs that were originally created as an alternative to provide greater protections for neighboring residents, and Greek letter fraternities, banned at Princeton in 1855. They call for the “overall site design” of the district to include are housed in an elegant row of villa-like buildings built be- “courtyards and walkways similar to those that exist tween the 1890s and 1920s, facing the avenue and creating elsewhere on the University campus.” It also requires the a dramatic gateway to the campus from the east. Prospect development and implementation of “a comprehensive Avenue constitutes a mixed-use and vital corridor for this landscape plan” for the E3 zone. neighborhood which the Campus Plan proposes to enhance The Campus Plan strategy is consistent with this man- by reusing two previous club buildings in a way that further date to extend the sense of campus into the neighborhood. integrates the avenue into the fabric of the campus. The New buildings must defi ne and revitalize open spaces, with former Campus Club will become a gathering space for au St. their entrances and activities focused on landscaped greens undergraduate and graduate students, located in proximity Nass and pathways. The new Operations Research and Financial to the Frist Campus Center, while the former Elm Club will Engineering (ORFE) building is an example of a design that become the new location for the Carl A. Fields Center for fi lls a gap and creates activity, strengthening the adjacent Equality and Cultural Understanding. 1. Raymond P. Rhinehart, The Campus Guide: Princeton University (New York, Princeton University Press, 1999), 60 100 The Plan: Neighborhoods PRINCETON CAMPUS PLAN 101 Prospect Avenue and William Street Neighborhood framework plan CONNECTIONS TO THE CAMPUS The Prospect Avenue and William Street Neighborhood is Nassau Street connected to the Core Campus along the spi ne of Shapiro Walk as it crosses Washington Road and becomes the AARON historic McCosh Walk. Whereas Shapiro Walk is a broad BURR 6 HALL and ceremonial east-west promenade, pathways to the eertSahC otlr t n south are more attenuated and dispersed as they take 3 LOT 10 advantage of smaller opportunities to fi lter between the 5 existing and former eating club buildings along Prospect Avenue. The existing walkway east of Bobst Hall links the LOT 2 Engineering Quadrangle to the Stadium, as does Roper William Street Lane. Ivy-Prospect Walk creates a direct link between FRIEND 8 CENTER ENGINEERING Scudder Plaza and Lewis Library. This plan aims to reinforce Murray Pl QUADRANGLE these pathways by clearly designating the existing walk- COMPUTER P.U. PRESS SCIENCE ways east of Bobst Hall and landscaping the Ivy-Prospect nedlO 7 ee t Str Walk east of Tower Club. Washington Road 12 ace WALLACE 1 CORWIN MUDD 4 BENDHEIM HALL LOT 3 ROBERTSON BENDHEIM PARKING Pedestrian connections FISHER FINANCE CTR. COLONIAL TIGER 2 11 GARAGE LANDSCAPE PROJECTS 13 Shapiro Walk 14 Pathways, landscaping, and green spaces will be improved Prospect Avenue along Shapiro Walk to create an attractive connection from Scudder Plaza to the engineering school. The landscape material will be selected for seasonal interest that can 9 TOWER QUAD IVY COTTAGE CLOISTER CHARTER BOBST CANNON CAP & sustain the attractiveness of the walk during the winter New buildings GOWN months. The campus green along Shapiro Walk will be naLpoR re Improved campus greens enhanced with the planting of additional shade trees and Constructed woodland seating areas, making the lawn a pleasant space to spend FRIST TERRACE 15 e Campus paths time between classes or re lax with friends, much like the CAMPUS Parking lot CENTER greens of the historic campus. Roadway improvements LOT 26 Building renovation Bendheim Center Green Development site FUTURE DEVELOPMENT SITE A landscaped green in front of the Bendheim Center 10 for Finance (the former Dial Lodge) will be made more accessible as a north-south pathway from Shapiro Walk N 0’ 125’ 250’ to Prospect Avenue. This pathway is part of the larger PROPOSED PROJECTS S Existing view of Shapiro Walk looking west strategy mentioned above to reinforce the connections New Buildings Building Renovations to the Natural Sciences Neighborhood and the Ivy Lane 1 Operations Research and 5 Green Hall and Western Way Neighborhood to the south. Financial Engineering (ORFE) 6 185 Nassau 2 Carl A. Fields Center 7 Frick Laboratory 3 Mixed-use residential and 8 Hoyt Laboratory offi ce development 9 Campus Club 4 Engineering expansion 10 5 Ivy Lane 11 Bowen Hall Landscape Projects 12 Shapiro Walk 13 Bendheim Center Green 14 Carl A. Fields Center landscape 15 Ivy-Prospect Walk Proposed improvements to Shapiro Walk 102 The Plan: Neighborhoods PRINCETON CAMPUS PLAN 103 PLANNED PROJECTPLANNED Operations Research and Financial Engineering Building Architect: Frederick Fisher and Partners BUILDING RENOVATIONS Landscape Architect: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Frick, Hoyt, and Green renovations Size: 45,000 square feet Scheduled completion: Fall 2008 With the completion of the new Chemistry, Neuroscience, and Psychology buildings, Frick, Hoyt, and Green will be Key features Situated between engineering and the social sciences, the new ORFE building vacated. The newly freed space in these buildings presents will exemplify the University’s ability to bring together cross-disciplinary teams. It will be home an opportunity to house programs in the humanities and to two academic programs, both of which seek to create a vibrant environment for teaching social sciences that are currently overcrowded, thereby con- and research at the intersection of science and society. The Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, founded in 1999, solidating this area as an inter-disciplinary humanities and addresses problems related to decision-making and risk. It combines mathematics, engineer- social sciences neighborhood. The southern façade of Frick ing, and fi nance to help business leaders make critical decisions about fi nancial markets, Laboratory can be opened up to create a direct relationship investments, or complex logistical operations. The Center for Information Technology Policy, to Scudder Plaza. founded in 2005, bridges a critical gap between policymakers and technologists in an age when 185 Nassau renovation computers are reshaping all aspects of life, from information privacy to national security to Currently, the Program in Theater and Dance, the Program electronic voting. The new glass structure will span four fl oors—one below ground and three above ground. in Visual Arts, the Program in Creative Writing, and the It will house research studios and offi ces for faculty and graduate students. Conference rooms Princeton Atelier are located at 185 Nassau Street. Once and a 65-seat lecture hall will grace the main fl oor, while a smaller classroom will be located in the Program in Theater and Dance moves to a new facility the basement. The building’s entry is designed as a three-story atrium with a glass balcony that planned in the Arts and Transit Neighborhood, the vacated has a view of Shapiro Walk. space will allow expansion for the Program in Visual Arts. Creative Writing may also move from 185 Nassau Street, Sustainability aspects As designed, the building will incorporate energy saving techniques that make it 50 percent more effi cient than the ASHRAE 90.1-2004 guidelines. As with other freeing up additional space. buildings on campus, ORFE’s energy will be supplied by the University’s central plant, thus taking advantage of the higher effi ciency associated with cogeneration and thermal storage. Potential Frick renovation As the former Frick laboratory (shown left) is renovated An additional 5 percent in energy savings will come from daylighting control features. An for humanities and social science programs in the extensive green roof, water effi cient fi xtures, and low-emitting materials will further reduce future, a new connection can be created to Scudder the building’s environmental impacts. Plaza, an active gathering space that is currently isolated from the building. Such a connection would both enliven the plaza and better integrate the building and its future occupants with the campus, strengthening the interac- tion of the humanities and social science departments, with Scudder Plaza as a new focal point. PLANNED PROJECTPLANNED Engineering Expansion The proposed engineering expansion will create additional capacity for academic programs for the School of Engineering and Applied Science. The Campus Plan has shaped principles that will guide the selected architect in creating an expansion that enhances the functionality and aesthetics of the E-Quad while improving pedestrian circulation. I+ BACKGROUND AND HISTORY OF THE E3 ZONING ORDINANCE Planning principles In addition to the physical increase in building area (approximately E9 100,000 gross square feet), the new addition will create better access and exposure for the Princeton’s E3 zone includes the Engineering Quadrangle :9 existing E-Quad courtyard and enliven the building’s face on Olden Street. The addition will east of Olden Street and an irregularly shaped parcel west <) <( E9 IF$( I* have a strong relationship to the redesigned Shapiro Walk. All new construction in the E-Quad J9 of Olden that contains many but not all of the University’s will comply with the zoning requirements for this site that ensure buffers for the surrounding lands between Olden and Washington Road. Prior to 1990, I+ residential community. >I< NXccXZ\ FI=< [\eJk% [\eJk% Fc :fin`e Fc PLANNED PROJECTPLANNED Dl[[ 104 The Plan: Neighborhoods PRINCETON CAMPUS PLAN 105