Baltimore, MD

After purchasing a site off-campus for athletic fields, Loyola retained ASG to re-examine land usage on its primary campus, which is in one of the city's wooded residential communities.

The Master Plan addresses academic and support space needs, campus housing, parking and transportation, and natural systems. It identifies parcels that were incrementally acquired with new areas of open space, landscaping, and buildings.

In the west, the existing high-rise apartments are proposed to be linked to the existing garden apartments with new buildings that vary in height to transition from large scale to residential scale. New plazas, walkways, steps, lighting, and landscaping will unify the hilly site. Surface parking is collected into a new structure that frees land for a new open space. A neglected creek is opened up as an amenity for the village.

Additionally, a former car dealership will be redeveloped as a site for administrative support, facilities management, and structured parking. And and under-utilized triangle of land will be transformed into a park and informal recreation space.

A new main entrance will have access to underground parking beneath academic buildings and open space. With new and renovated buildings at the academic core, Loyola will meet its goal of making the campus more inviting and functional.

Completion: 2003
Size: 83 acres