The School and Campus Issue of Landscape Architect and Specifier News saw many firms submit their projects for feature consideration. This project was not chosen for a Feature in the issue, but we at LandscapeArchitect.com thought the project deserved to be showcased online . . .

 
The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS) expanded resident housing, academic classrooms, and dining facilities north of the main college by creating a series of linked neighborhoods, including the Alpine Village. Wenk Associates developed site and landscape plans for the new First Year Experience Housing at Alpine Village that included a new dining facility and added nearly 600 new beds to the existing housing village. Situated on a steep hillside, the plan creates outdoor spaces that celebrate the unique campus landscape features of bluffs, prairies, and arroyos. A road was removed to help unify the village and create a pedestrian spine, plazas, and green spaces that knit the new development to the existing village. A new gateway plaza and dining terrace feature expansive views of Pikes Peak and Pulpit Rock. The plan includes a dynamic and visible learning landscape created by daylighting an existing drainage and routing it through a student courtyard where stormwater runoff is infiltrated.

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