[PeterParker]

So, I was researching out Lynchburg College today (work-related) and was taking a look at the aesthetics and campus layout with the Lake (albeit almost dried up) that they have over there, and I must admit they have some really nice quality exteriors, interiors and campus layout over on their campus, including a really nice new addition (I never really ventured over there when I was at the LU.)




So, as an exercise in free-thinking and input, if one had the Executive Decision capability to manipulate the campus with the given the main anchoring buildings (Demoss, Mansion, Football & Soccer/Track, and Campus North and East) stay, how would you change it to be an award winning campus aesthetics-wise regardless of how "out there" the idea may be financially etc. (i.e. replace ravine/Vines with reflection pond, etc.)


Here are a few Sim-like things I wouldn't mind seeing at some point down the road:

1. Remove the 70's style "wings" on DeMoss, Schilling and the Hangar and grass it all the way from railroad to highway with a place for walkways and the necessary road. Then renovate the "back" of DeMoss to mirror the front and corners exterior. (Perhaps the sides if structurally possible. This would give DeMoss a symmetrical style all around. I also think that at some point (25,000 on campus) the building could be suited to becoming a stand alone library/technology center (like UVA's library) with meeting rooms for studying and some classrooms for liberal arts first and second year classes.)




2. A new basketball arena/convocation center akin to ODU's Constant Center or the new UVA John Paul Jones Arena (I know, expensive, but this is Sim-LU) in a good elevated location on campus to be seen from the highway.

3. A new baseball stadium in the David's place parking lot perhaps.

4. Eventually divvy some of the Campus North facility into more a "Town Center" concept by manipulating walls in order to have outside verandas, walkways and such, instead of a "Big Box" store of educational space, if possible.

5. All student living on the Campus East side with more of a community feel to the layout instead of laid out in a more "row housing" format.

[qkslvrsrfrboy]

yeah with the whole east campus thing, i think it would be sweet if they got rid of the pit and built more dorms all around the perimeter of that and grassed in where the pit is now to make more of a courtyard/quad area surrounded by the dorms

[Fumblerooskies]

The long and narrow layout of our campus makes it tough on asthetics. The one thing that is lacking is a quadrangle, as in many colleges. LC has more of a circle quad (if that makes sense), but looks more like a classic college.

[Sly Fox]

Did anybody else see the title of this thread and misread it?

I was wondering if we were getting casinos for a split second.

[LUconn]

as long as we're throwing money out of the picture, I would divert 460 and the railroad tracks elsewhere. Or even just 460. Then 75% of the aesthetic problems are solved

[ATrain]

A tennis facility like Mary Washginton's over in the pit next to David's Place: 12 outdoor lighted hard courts (but ours will be like the US Open's blue and green) and 6 indoor.

Brick over the entire exterior of campus north and add columns/decorative entrances to the front.

Jack up the wings behind DeMoss to be four stories and then add a new four story hallway to completely enclose the courtyard. Level the hangar, bring back the flags, and put a fountain in the center.

Put a giant parking garage where Vines is now...but this starts at ground level and goes down underground so its not an eyesore. The top level will have trees and/or flowers every few spaces. This will also replace the parking lot in front of DeMoss, which will be mostly grassed over with that giant fountain in the center that they had drawn up a few years ago.

Put in a bigger version of JPJ Arena where the Circle is now...this means more dorms on East. The quad/senior dorms and Dorm 33 can remain-even though Dorm 33 will be an eyesore.

A clock/bell tower in the median strip of 460 would look nice.

Hill dorms leveled and new ones built that have character and arranged so there is a central lawn.

Schilling is leveled and a grass lawn replaces it and the current tennis courts.

A new baseball stadiumthat looks similar to Lynchburg's City Stadium built to replace the current one.

New scoreboard for Williams Stadium.

And thats all I can think of. Yes, this will be expensive/impossible to carry out but hey, this is Sim-LU.

[kel varson]

Yes, I thought it said slim city.