The model above was built for the University AHC planning task force by a team led by Allison Rockwell and including Sam Kellerman, Jorge Salcedo, Katherine Thering, with Ann Forsyth.
Metropolitan Design Workshop
LA 8741, Spring. 2006
Academic Heath Center Precinct Plan
Instructors: Professor Ann Forsyth
Research Fellow Katherine Thering
Download:
Syllabus (184 KB)
Assignment Sheet (104 KB)
Download Full Student Report:
Academic Health Center Master Plan (9.52 MB)
Download Student Report by Section:
Cover page, Acknowledgements (366 KB)
Table of Contents, Executive Summary (175 KB)
Background, and Project Approach (1.71 MB)
West Bank District (1.87 MB)
Central AHC District (2.80 MB)
AHC Village District (2.04 MB)
Stadium District (791 KB)
St. Paul District (568 KB)
Implementation and Next Steps (142 KB)
Works Cited, Appendix A, Appendix B, Appendix C (297 KB)
LA 8741 Metropolitan Design Workshop will prepare a new precinct plan for the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center. This is a real project Ann Forsyth is chairing the university committee charged with this task and both the committee and the facilities planners at the AHC are eager to hear new ideas. Other committees are examining how clinical practice relates to teaching, how information technology will affect instruction, and are assessing the need for future graduates. This information will be available to workshop participants.
This is a complex project. It includes a number of challenges:
- Planning facilities for a major research, clinical, and teaching facility--should it go up, out, be in one place or many?
- Design and planning public spaces to provide a healthy/healing environment
- Providing connections to the Mississippi which runs through the AHC
- Dealing with transportation issues--links across the river, transportation around the AHC
- Connecting with surrounding neighborhoods, on both the east and west banks of the river
While project based, the workshop will include a number of readings on techniques in urban design.
