Frederick Community College Facilities Master Plan Chapter 6 Proposed Campus Development 6-F-1 May, 2023 DESIGN GUIDELINES The Place for Guidelines In its Building Design and Construction Standards, the College has put in place a comprehensive set of design standards which can be used for capital and facilities renewal projects. In addition to physical building and site systems, those standards also include project protocols and processes such as procurement and building systems standards, all of which are regularly updated. The Guidelines in this section 6F are intended to complement those standards at a level appropriate to the Facilities Master Plan. It is understood that while each project is unique, it is entirely appropriate and important to have such guidelines in place while accommodating and encouraging distinct designs for buildings, landscaping, and special campus elements such as site lighting, furnishings, and signage. The Campus and Campus Development Plan The Campus Development Plan identifies several building development opportunity sites, anticipating new development, additions, or newly created sites where an existing building will be scheduled for demolition. Considerations for creating these sites and the proposed placement of buildings on them have been carefully evaluated and defined. Specific sites for proposed buildings are based on how each would work most effectively relative to the campus as a whole, including Opossumtown Pike and the loop road, and to proximate existing buildings, pedestrian ways, parking, and existing or newly create quads. In short, the campus development plan should be followed. While proposed buildings are shown by suggested footprints, it is acknowledged that the building design process will define the footprint. Buildings The original campus buildings (A-D, S) date from 1970 and are relatively modest in size except for the larger Athletics Center. Defined primarily by beige brick facades and green sloped standing seam metal roofs with some level roof elements, these buildings were placed in a ‘village’-like setting reflecting their angular connectedness and scale. This was unlike a more traditional orthogonal relationship defining quadrangles typically found on other college campuses. The masonry facades are penetrated by vertical window and entrance door systems, occasionally differentiated by an expanse of glass curtainwall and, in some cases, metal panel systems. Subsequent additions and other buildings employed similar features, and so for the most part there is a unity of architecture somewhat akin to the ‘Prairie’ style of Frank Lloyd Wright. The sloped roofs of the original buildings covered the upper floor completely, while in newer buildings, the sloped roofs are in an extended mansard style, leaving a level recess behind the sloped roof structures, where mechanical equipment is placed, out of sight. Notably, some buildings or components thereof feature level roofs as alternative precedent. Other than the three-story Jefferson Building, all campus buildings are one- or two-stories. Building sizes range from the 960 GSF Kiln Building to the 76,987 GSF Student Center. New designs should, first of all, be buildings of their time, not expected to mimic the architecture of the earlier 1970’s and 1980’s buildings. It is not anticipated that any new building would reflect the architecture of an historic nature – for example, Georgian architecture that often exists on other, older campuses; indeed, the architecture of the past should remain in the past. The nature of the design of proposed buildings may also reflect its
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