The guiding vision for the Campus Master Plan is to cultivate communities of learning, personal enrichment, and spiritual development in supportive and transformative settings. Therefore, the Master Plan is centered around placemaking, community connections, and responding to the special characteristics of each campus. The focus throughout is on the spaces between buildings because here is where the unstructured, but enriching life of a community is cultivated and nourished. Buildings frame and create these spaces. Open spaces will be linked in a continuous realm of invitation. Together, buildings and open spaces, will create a community connected to each campus’ unique landscape and setting.Â
The Campus Master Plan is based on the following guiding principles:
- Respect the Land: Work with and draw from the unique opportunities on each campus and on each specific site.
- Make Space, Don’t Just Fill It: Buildings should work together to frame and create usable outdoor spaces. Individual buildings can bend, fold, and wrap community spaces.Â
- Be Responsible: Use resources wisely and endeavor to reduce environmental impacts.
- Respect the Views: When presented with beautiful prospects, capture those views for all. When focused on the ocean at the Point Loma campus, give those views to people inside, and outside buildings.Â
- Make Services Close, but Discrete: Find suitable locations for all the critical services necessary to operate the University, but shield and screen storage, trash, electrical, and mechanical infrastructure.
