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Project • By Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects (NBW) • Masterplans
Field Studies: Growing a Biogenic Campus
Adapting to extreme weather, shifting demographics, and evolving educational paradigms, the Biogenic Campus plan for the University at Buffalo creates a strategy for the evolution of the campus over a 50-year timeline to create a vibrant ecology and community refuge. The visionary proposal—co-led by Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects and LTL Architects with Derive Engineers—was selected as the winner of the Resilient Campus competition organized by the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning.
Regenerative Relationships
In the face of climate extremes, the proposed Biogenic Campus evolves to meet the needs of students, faculty, staff, and community members while fostering a regenerative relationshi... More
Project • By WY-TO • Masterplans
The Living Campus
A Nature-based Approach to Campus Masterplanning.
Amidst the natural greenery atop hilly terrain sits a campus that has consistently evolved and expanded with time. The analysed urban typology presented a Branch-like Growth with both high and low-density clusters and Hard boundaries from the 3 expressways and a road. As such, programmes within are developed in a Mixed Fine Grain manner.
The vision for The Living Campus masterplan thus revitalises through the inherited asset, The Ridge. Accordingly, the introduction of 5 x 15-minute villages charts a cohesive journey, unifying faculties on either side. Programmes within each village are guided by the ideal anatomy of a village. In doing so, placemaking strategies are... More