"Successful campuses reflect the importance of inter-related systems - buildings, open spaces, parking and transit, ecology, infrastructure - and are in harmonious balance. Our campus plans strive to create this type of balance between the natural and built worlds while reflecting the genius loci of place."

Ayers/Saint/Gross’s iterative campus planning method grows out of each institution’s academic mission and how that institution organizes buildings and grounds. Collaborating with stakeholders at every step in the process, we collect data on the college or university’s history and natural and built systems; develop planning principles; divide the campus into precincts for detailed study; create and test concepts; and prepare a final plan and design guidelines.

Our goal always is to create a campus plan that combines tradition and innovation within the culture of each institution.