crystallising a campus vision
'An exciting, visionary & long term mastervision, linking us with the city Deputy Principal Bill Bar
Imagine a pedestrianised campus with impressive 'civic gateways' to north and south, joined by a walkway where academic buildings, interspersed with occasional shops, open onto the main thoroughfare and staff and students gather between lectures to chat on a common green at its very heart.
This, in essence, is the vision for The Campus in the City over the coming years. Under the vision, a pedestrianised Small's Wynd will become the main artery through campus joining an impressive architectural link with the city at the Hawkhill end of the campus - likely to be the new Northern College building - down to the Perth Road. There, a stylish terraced link will head south to the river, with little businesses and incubator units spawning to either side.
One of the most exciting proposals is a central college green - an open grass space for recreation at the back of DUSA. Other features of the vision include a civic space in front of the Tower extending into a vibrant city cultural quarter which curves round via DCA and the Rep, to meet the northern gateway of the campus.
The strategy, developed in conjunction with the City and Scottish Enterprise Tayside, was drawn up by architects Page and Park of Glasgow who designed the award winning campus strategy for Strathclyde University and who were behind the Lighthouse centre in Glasgow. It sets out an holistic vision for the gradual development of the university precinct into the 21st century.
Dovetailing neatly with the University plan is DUSA's own vision for strategic redevelopment - a vision which creates a union designed to provide a top quality all round student experience. The £4.5 million redevelopment starts this summer and will be phased over three years, extending DUSA to the north, facing onto the new college green. Inside the Union will be transformed.
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