The original focus of the IUPUI Campus Master Plan was on the IUPUI Peninsula and land owned by Indiana University in downtown Indianapolis. Part One: IUPUI Campus Master Plan addresses master plan recommendations for IUPUI and lands owned solely by Indiana University.
1| MASTER PLAN SUMMARY
Methodist Hospital Riley's Children's Hospital Neuroscience Complex New Wishard Hospital Existing Wishard Hospital Site Existing School of Nursing School of Dentistry.
MASTER PLAN SUMMARY
IUPUI's existing public realm reflects its history of superblock development and street grid removal. Steam service will need to be expanded to serve developing sections of the campus.
2| INTRODUCTION
Support Academic Excellence
Community Partners Committee The Community Partners Committee was established to guide the evolution of the Campus Master Plan in response to the university's community and neighbors. This committee provided valuable input and greatly facilitated consensus building during the development of the Campus Master Plan.
3| CAMPUS E VOLUTION
As an urban university, IUPUI's development is and continues to be influenced by the continued evolution of the city of Indianapolis. The place of noisy water.” The adjacent White River was also a native fishing spot.
CAMPUS HISTORY
The Wishard Memorial Hospital site also served as the location of the city's first hospital. By the 1950s, historian Burton Dorr Myers noted that "The campus is now the most beautifully landscaped area in the western part of Indianapolis."
4| EXISTING CONDITIONS
THE CAMPUS TODAY
The campus covers 509 acres2 and utilizes 129 buildings totaling nearly 10 million gross square feet of classrooms, hospitals, laboratories, student housing, offices, athletic facilities and support spaces. With the recent construction of the Gateway Garage completed in 2010, the campus now has 20,906 parking spaces for visitors, faculty, staff and students.
CAMPUS COMPARISONS
CAMPUS ANALYSIS
Buildings Requiring Upgrade Business SPEA
Engineering and Technology Building Engineering, Science and Technology Medical Research and Library Building National Institute for Sports and Fitness Sciences Building.
Dated Buildings, Underutilized Sites Cavanaugh Hall
High Quality Buildings
Taylor Hall and the Lecture Hall are two of the original three buildings on campus. Due to the campus' peninsula location and one-way pairs, there are only five vehicular entrances: W. Construction of the new Wishard Memorial Hospital complex eliminated 1,700 parking spaces on the west side of campus.
The location of most parking on campus creates significant traffic and pedestrian safety issues. One conclusion made in completing the hydraulic model was that the existing distribution system could not support the additional cooling load on campus without it. IUPUI Campus Substation A, on the north side of campus, is fed by three circuits.
There will be a need for a significant investment on the part of the municipality and the university to achieve separation in all proposed development areas.
PROGRAM
Spatial needs are essentially a set of spatial parts from which a physical vision of the future campus can be built. For purposes of the Master Plan, space requirements were derived in allocable square feet (ASF) and then converted to gross square feet (GSF). Consideration of facility needs, transportation requirements, and infrastructure requirements is based on campus population totals and not full-time equivalents (FTEs).
In connection with the Campus Master Plan, a new enrollment level of 35,000 was established as a planning target. The student FTE enrollment and full-time faculty for each of the peer institutions are depicted in the Data Analysis Summary table. In the base year 2007, IUPUI's faculty per student ratio higher than the average of the peer institutions.
With less than 4% of the student body living on campus, a complete life-learning experience for on-campus students is diminished.
5| THE MASTER PLAN
A CAMPUS IN TRANSITION
Create a Dense Urban Environment IUPUI is positioned to create a forward-looking
MASTER PLAN PRINCIPLES
- Recommendations
- Unite the Campus
- Recommendations
- Engage the City
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- Redefine the Public Realm
- Recommendations
- Animate the Campus
- Recommendations
In the interest of harnessing the academy's full potential, the new planning model recommends cross-pollination of programs, schools, and centers to facilitate the exchange of ideas and provide greater opportunities for student learning and mentorship. The campus center is enhanced by a mixed-use development that contains a variety of functions and amenities, creating a natural destination and meeting point, common ground for the diverse IUPUI community. Former Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson IUPUI is an important partner of the city of Indianapolis and hosts many civic activities, from cultural to sporting events.
One of the main recommendations of the Master Plan is to meaningfully connect the campus and downtown Indianapolis. Intentional engagement will enable the campus community to take full advantage of its position in the heart of Indianapolis and the Indianapolis community to realize the many benefits of being adjacent to world-class academic, cultural, research and medical facilities. An on-campus, 24-7 presence of student life is envisioned with new housing typologies on the Vermont Street corridor, supported by indoor recreational facilities in the heart of campus.
Completion of the Cultural Trail at Blackford and a new public/private mixed-use development at Indiana Avenue and N.
ILLUSTRATIVE MASTER PLAN
SUSTAINABLE PLANNING
- Adopt environmentally sensitive land use practices
- Move toward a carbon-neutral campus
- Ensure a range of transportation options
- Plan for Innovative Sustainable Buildings and Landscapes
As stewards of the IUPUI campus and of all its resources, we recognize the interdependence of people with the environment. The emissions addressed here are the result of the use of purchased electricity, steam and chilled water. We will minimize transportation requests to and from campus and continue to incorporate alternative fuels into the campus fleet.
The Campus Master Plan proposes several solutions to help reduce the almost exclusive dependence on the private car on campus, including new campus bus routes, adding bike lanes and bike paths, encouraging carpooling, and increasing the use of the People Mover. Increased student housing on campus and more compact development will encourage walking instead of driving to class. We will strive to design, build, renovate and manage our facilities and grounds using sustainable materials and practices.
In addition, the Campus Master Plan outlines strategies to build on the significant past water conservation initiatives to further reduce potable water use by 35 percent over today's use, even while increasing the overall built square footage on campus.
CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT
Future Demolition of Facilities for Possible Relocation
The Master Plan recommends offering more housing and residential living programs on campus to attract, retain and engage students. The plan proposes more than 2,400 new beds (both new facilities and replacement beds) to bring the total on-campus housing close to the goal of providing on-campus housing to 10% of expected enrollments. Given the diverse student population, a mix of housing and food options on campus is desirable, suitable for both underclassmen and upperclassmen or graduates.
The Master Plan proposes a new residential development along Vermont Street, which will include the majority of housing on campus. As the residential population on campus grows, the University will want to consider selecting the proposed program for future retail facilities and food service. The university is considering including local, independent entrepreneurs with a history of quality and success to operate select businesses and services on campus.
The Vermont Street corridor from University Boulevard to Barnhill Drive, adjacent to the Campus Center, has the highest foot traffic on campus.
LANDSCAPE CHARACTER
The master plan proposes a green network of new memorable spaces, attractive urban streets and green linear corridors that connect to the larger ecosystem of the White River and Fall Creek, as well as the cultural facilities of Military Park and White River State Park. Pedestrian area improvements and a consistent street treatment with more trees, pedestrian lighting, furniture and signage are proposed for all campus streets. Improve the streetscape for IUPUI properties on Stadium Drive north of Fall Creek with street trees and appropriately sized walkways and protect all campus surface parking from right-of-way views.
10th Street on the canal with street trees, appropriately sized walks, and screening all campus surface parking from right-of-way views. The design of gateways must be simple, appropriate and compatible with the surrounding urban and architectural context of the campus and its districts. These new north-south walks will connect to the White River Recreational Trail and to the footbridge north of W.
Extend the Cultural Trail on campus along Blackford Road to connect Indiana Avenue and the campus with White River State Park.
CIRCULATION AND PARKING
Construct a northbound left turn lane in the existing median on West Street for turns onto New York Street. Convert Blackford Street between Michigan and New York Streets from one-way to two-way with one lane in each direction and center turning lanes approaching the intersections with Michigan and New York Streets. Extend University Boulevard to the east and connect it with Blackford Street south of New York Street.
Improve California Street as an internal north-south connection from New York Street to North Street. Increase the number of signalized intersections on Michigan and New York streets to aid pedestrian crossings. Reduce the diameter of University Boulevard between Michigan and New York Streets from two lanes in each direction to one lane in each direction with a center turn lane.
Michign and New York streets have been reconfigured and re-striped for two-way traffic, with off-road bike lanes implemented along the roadways.
CAMPUS INFRASTRUCTURE
The master plan includes removing the existing 5kV service and providing 13.8kV service to all new buildings from Substation A. IUPUI envisions not providing peak shaving due to the relatively constant nature of the loads. This section on energy and water use predicts the energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and water use on the IUPUI campus when the master plan is fully implemented, when the buildings proposed in the master plan are completed.
There have been minor adjustments to the campus master plan since the analysis was completed, and these changes may affect the predicted energy and water use of the proposed campus. The energy and water consumption part of the master plan estimates the greenhouse gas emissions and drinking water consumption associated with the existing campus and. The City of Indianapolis Storm Water Specifications Manual contains all relevant information about the city's stormwater management requirements.
As part of the master plan process, the IUPUI campus was evaluated based on main drainage lines to determine which areas currently have separate storm and sanitary sewers and which areas could be separated in the future.
