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WMU Pedestrian Green Space06-02-26 | News

WMU Pedestrian Green Space

Kalamazoo, Michigan
by O?EUR(TM)Boyle, Cowell, Blalock and Associates, Inc. (OCBA)

Challenges to the project included thoughtfully including existing site features and working with a multitude of existing utilities beneath the roadway, including duct banks, gas, fiber, electric, and water. The location of the utilities had significant impact on the placement of the archway and underground stormwater storage.
Challenges to the project included thoughtfully including existing site features and working with a multitude of existing utilities beneath the roadway, including duct banks, gas, fiber, electric, and water. The location of the utilities had significant impact on the placement of the archway and underground stormwater storage.
Challenges to the project included thoughtfully including existing site features and working with a multitude of existing utilities beneath the roadway, including duct banks, gas, fiber, electric, and water. The location of the utilities had significant impact on the placement of the archway and underground stormwater storage.
Challenges to the project included thoughtfully including existing site features and working with a multitude of existing utilities beneath the roadway, including duct banks, gas, fiber, electric, and water. The location of the utilities had significant impact on the placement of the archway and underground stormwater storage.
Challenges to the project included thoughtfully including existing site features and working with a multitude of existing utilities beneath the roadway, including duct banks, gas, fiber, electric, and water. The location of the utilities had significant impact on the placement of the archway and underground stormwater storage.
Challenges to the project included thoughtfully including existing site features and working with a multitude of existing utilities beneath the roadway, including duct banks, gas, fiber, electric, and water. The location of the utilities had significant impact on the placement of the archway and underground stormwater storage.
Challenges to the project included thoughtfully including existing site features and working with a multitude of existing utilities beneath the roadway, including duct banks, gas, fiber, electric, and water. The location of the utilities had significant impact on the placement of the archway and underground stormwater storage.

The School & Corporate Campus Issue of Landscape Architect and Specifier News saw many firms submit their projects for feature consideration. WMU Pedestrian Green Space is one of several great projects we are excited to showcase on LandscapeArchitect.com.

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Western Michigan University's Pedestrian Green Space is derived from several master plans that target a pedestrian focus through the center of campus and moving vehicle traffic and parking to the periphery. The project scope includes the removal of 930 LF of roadway and a small parking lot and the installation of walkways, seating and gathering areas, iconic photo opportunities, and encouragement of new campus traditions. The landscape architect led campus engagement and design concepts through schematic design, partnering with Fishbeck civil engineers, then completed construction documentation for furnishings, the archway, and all landscaping.

The design of two parallel paths punctuated by small seating terraces is a call back to the adjacent green space corridor projects further into campus, while also maintaining work limits at the existing roadway width to prevent damage to nearby vegetation. At the east end of the project, the edge of WMU's campus, students and campus organizations strongly supported a gateway feature to campus to be a photo opportunity, a meeting place, and a clear beginning to campus.

To see more School & Corporate Campus projects, go to: https://landscapearchitect.com/landscape-articles/sneak-preview-of-the-school-and-campus-issue

For more information about submitting a project, go to: https://landscapearchitect.com/research/editorial/editorial-submissions.php

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