Make No Small Plans

The process of reaching consensus on the future for a campus is as important as the solution itself. A successful collaboration can build on community and create shared visions that will endure. Our engagement tools include online surveys, social media and meeting-based interactions where we facilitate discussions about issues, opportunities, visions and concepts. This approach leads to consensus for strategies and plans ultimately adopted.

Evolving ideas about the nature, context and 24/7 characteristics of learning continually influence the planning of student life facilities. Residential, dining, recreation and social spaces have changed in response to student expectations. Programming, siting, planning and designing these spaces present unique challenges – and opportunities – for campuses. We are committed to identifying and understanding our clients’ needs and crafting our solutions to ensure students’ success.

Our programming services include campus-wide space needs analyses, instructional space utilization assessments, classroom efficiency studies and planning-level building programs. Our work is based on rigorous analysis of data and continuous research on the most innovative teaching, learning, and student life environments. We employ sophisticated planning tools to produce results and visual communications to clearly share findings with decision makers.

As a leading campus planning firm, Page has developed a program to address facility needs that can be aligned with visions for the development of capital improvement projects. Our process involves a detailed assessment of facility conditions and open space analysis, as well as significant community engagement. Page has proprietary tools to accomplish this such as our Discovery Survey, an interactive online platform that fosters engagement across a school community.

Sustainability has always been a guiding force in our practice, and younger generations expect it to be part of the fabric of their lives. Our campus design work engages institutions to aggressively pursue goals such as triple net zero, carbon neutrality and sustainable operations through enhanced site and building design, multimodal access and efficient infrastructure systems.

Planning for an existing campus often involves balancing the need for growth with the celebration of established campus heritage and character. We seek to understand both the design merits of a campus, and the ways in which it will be used over time. With this approach, we refined the campus framework at Trinity University to address recently evolved considerations, such as minimizing traffic, while reinforcing the community’s vision of place.

Landscape serves a crucial role in preserving our well-being and success, which is why it’s central to how we plan and design campuses. Campuses have traditionally leveraged the landscape to serve four important functions: ceremony, restoration, social interaction and play. These four landscape functions are present on any successful campus and are now more critical than ever as an essential antidote to today’s tech overload.