Beloit College

Master Plan Goals

Create a Vision for the Next 25 Years

Enrich the legacy of the campus

Manifest the Strategic Plan in the campus facilities

Create a Physical Environment that is the equal of the Academic Environment

Strengthen the connections between the College and the Community

Principles

Unify the Campus

A cohesive Beloit first

Honor Beloit’s special character

Preserve the campus heritage

Further integrate the College and the Community

Approach Everything with Quality

Reveal the richness of the buildings

Create special environments for living and learning

Make Beloit successes visible on campus and in the community

Unify the Campus

Place a Cohesive Beloit First

Knit the campus and the college

Express the culture in the place

Establish a "center of gravity" for each of the academic divisions

Create a common ground for global, experiential, and interdisciplinary learning

Unify the Campus

Honor Beloit's Special Site

Reveal the sense of prospect and high ground between the rivers

Transform the west slope to acknowledge the river and downtown

Preserve the neighborhood

Deepen the connection to the regional landscape

Unify the Campus

Preserve and Protect the Campus Heritage

Landscape spaces and patterns are as essential to the legacy of Beloit as the buildings

Celebrate the unique treasures: The mounds, the forest, and the bluff

Unify the Campus

Strengthen the Walking Environment

Move cars to the perimeter of the pedestrian campus

Create pedestrian oriented streets and open spaces

Diminish the impact of service areas

Approach Everything With Quality

Enrich the Living and Learning Environments

Recover and improve common spaces, both interior and exterior

Create more special interest houses

Apply care and attention to detail, beauty, and material in every renovation and expansion effort

Think beyond the functional

"We shape our buildings and our buildings shape us"

Winston Churchill

Approach Everything With Quality

Make Beloit Successes Visible

Reveal experiential learning

Continue to be a presence downtown

Joint cultural and performance events

Bring the boathouse to Riverfront Park

Relate the college's experiential learning approach with the city's proud industrial tradition of "making"

Approach Everything With Quality

Further Integrate the Campus and the Community

Clarify edges

Enhance entrances

Reveal the campus

Connect to community assets

Approach Everything With Quality

Reveal the Richness of the Buildings

Consider scale in renovation, expansion and new buildings. Look to Middle, South, Smith as archetypes

Rediscover the piano nobile - the unique second level spaces

Restore the best spaces, and align the best uses with them

Makes buildings mutable, anticipate changing needs and pedagogies

Activate transitional spaces, seek new life for unique spaces

Vision for the Future

Build on Core Assets

• People

• Place

• Culture

Vision for the Future

Build on Core Assets / People

Exceptional faculty, staff, and students

Passion, intellect and innovation are integral to all facets of life at Beloit

Vision for the Future

Build on Core Assets / Culture

Interactive and interdisciplinary academic experience

A global orientation

Engaged learning

Distinguished museums engage the community and other academic institutions

Vision for the Future

Build on Core Assets / Place

Exceptional academic precinct

Beautiful historic buildings and spaces

Unique landscape of oak-hickory forest, oak savanna, and effigy mounds on bluff above the Rock River

Vision for the Future

Solve Today's Issues

• Crowded and outmoded facilities

• Underserved departments

• Reactive decision making habit

Anticipate the Future

• Increased competition for students

• Increasing space needs for teaching

• Increasing demand for residential space and amenities

• College holdings will increase in response, and the quality of the academic, cultural and physical environments must be preserved!

Recommendations –the first five years

Academic Facility Priorities

Sciences

Humanities

Arts

Athletics and Fitness

Campus Priorities

Make the campus one place

- Enhance pedestrian environment

- Expand parking on campus edges

- Improve connections to the city

Revitalize the campus landscape

Beloit College Master Plan