This document discusses several key factors in designing campus and community spaces: 1. It addresses designing spaces at multiple overlapping scales from the individual to the region. 2. It discusses hierarchies of public and private domains, with an elegant gradation from open to closed spaces. 3. It covers geometric connections between new and existing buildings and how these shapes foster interaction. 4. It examines "choreography of community" with circulation routes like streets, plazas, and stairways balancing social experiences over space and time. 5. It addresses how light, climate, and vegetation can create dynamic social spaces that relate to the environment. 6. It covers giving individual buildings a sense of identity and ownership through their placement

1. Campus and Community
1. Scale of Habitation
2. Hierarchies of Domain
3. Geometries of Connection
4. Choreography of Community
5. Light and Land
6. Placement and Identity

2. Scale of Habitation
Individuals and communities understand and experience their lives at multiple scales simultaneously
Overlapping scales of place:
- The region
- The locale (city, suburb or Country side)
- Campus context
- Building context
- Building components (rooms, clusters, circulation, exterior spaces and social spaces at the smallest scale)
1. Individual
2. The Team/ Group
3. The Happy Proximity of People
4. A community
5. The City as Integration of Inhabitants and Place
Severino, Renato; Equipotential Space: Freedom in Architecture; Praeger
Publisher; New York; 1970 [p. 65]

3. Hierarchies of Domain
Intensify the gradation from public to private realms (…to avoid complex issues related to public and private space)
Elegant hierarchy : [Open] > [Semi-Open] > [Close]
CEPT, Ahmedabad

4. Hierarchies of Domain
Intensify the gradation from public to private realms (…to avoid complex issues related to public and private space)
Elegant hierarchy : [Individual] > [Group] > [Collective]
Workspace Workspace
[ Indoor ] [ Outdoor ]
Group Group
Discussion Discussion
[ Indoor ] [ Outdoor ]
Plaza Playground
[ Outdoor ] [ Outdoor ]

5. Geometries of Connection
The geometric specificity of our sites provides powerful cues
- for connecting new buildings to the existing fabric
- for developing new range of social interaction
- for investing new places with particularity and memorability
Geometric connections in urban settings have developed as a result of clear design intention, and the
shaping of built form by patterns of use over time
Bibliothèque Multimédia à Vocation Régionale in Caen

6. Choreography of Community
- Place that invites kinesthetic experience of space heighten one’s involvement with both the place and
inhabitants.
- The interface between the building and inhabitant can vary from loose to tight, allowing range of social
and spatial experiences
- A choreographically rich place can balance both clarity and memorability of a place with the multiplicity
of experience in space and time
Three archetypical elements part of the circulation
 A street: connects to the city of campus with informal life
 A plaza: connects to social opportunity
 A stairway: to focus point
[ Street ] [ Plaza ] [ Stairway ]
NIFT – Gandhinagar and Mumbai

7. Light and the Land
The changing states of light, climate and vegetation can become active participants in creating dynamic
architectural and social space. Community spaces must relate to the environment
IIM< Ahmedabad
NID, Ahmedabad

8. Placement and Identity
- Individual building within the scheme must have a sense of identity and ownership
For example, landmark building could have a dominating view by its placement with respect to other buildings
- Must follow a spatial diagram and composition
- Built must be establish in place and time For example, building language.
Aalto Université Library, Finland

9. Reference
Campus & Community
Essays
THE SHAPE OF COMMUNITY
By Buzz Yudell