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Tuesday, July 5, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Office works for campus beauty
Staff Reporter
Bv JANET WARD
When construction of several new facilities at the University of Kansas is completed this summer, KU's office of architectural services will begin to implement plans to make the buildings seem a natural part of the campus landscape.
natural parks
Lampaping plans for the new law
planning and the Helen Foresman Spencer
Museum are nearly complete according to
Al Thomas, landscape architect and site
planner, and work will begin as soon as
construction stops.
"With each project, we try to get a relationship of form and texture that will support the aesthetics of the building." Thomas said.
The artist landscaping, for example,
he said, will have a classical kind of sym-
metry in his works.
SITE DEVELOPMENT of construction projects is near haphazard nor at the
whim of the building's architect, he said. The state-appointed architect sometimes will include in his work plans for the walks, pavements and some plantings, but landscaping usually is left to architectural services.
We take the finished stage of construction and polish it up." Thomas said. There are 10 to 15 people in architectural services, he said, most of them students working part-time. The students do field checks, drafting and some designing.
Thomas said that many factors are taken into consideration before any sidewalks are built.
The first consideration, and perhaps the most important, he said, is how the development fits into the University's long-range plan. The plan was developed under the recommendations of a firm of architects, planners and engineers, Caudill, Rowlett and Scott Los Angeles. It was adopted by architectural services in 1974.
Thomas said that each institution in the state of Kansas is required by the Board of Regents to have such a long-range plan for campus development.
"When beginning any new construction project," he said, "we try to conform its design."
THESE GOALS INCLUDE the direction the campus can grow, land use, traffic control and the location of open spaces and building sites.
"Some areas like Potter Lake and Marvin Grove have been set aside, and buildings won't be built there," he said, "and some areas just aren't amenable to building."
Thomas said that support facilities such as buildings and grounds and storage are kept away from the core campus. Major facilities also are kept in the peripheral areas.
"WE USUALLY TRY to use native plants," he said, "those that are tried and true. We also try to use plants that grow at high humidity." The plants grow quickly and give some kind of show.
plants that are durable and adaptable to the climate and the soil of the site.
Thomas said he goes to buildings and grounds with the preliminary plans and they then discuss the plants to be used and those that are difficult to supply or maintain.
Trees that are most often used, he said,
include sycamores, redbuds and oaks.
City to discuss personnel rules
Buildings and grounds orders the plants, he said, and then has to wait until the right season to plant. Construction is timed for academic demands, he said, and many times the departments will be moved in before site development even begins.
Discussion of changes in rules governing city personnel, resulting from a series of meetings between city commissioners and city employees last spring, is included in a short agenda for tonight's Lawrence City Commission meeting.
The length of time it takes to design a project and the cost depend on the size of the project.
Commissioners also will consider proposed or dinamics to establish a 15 m.p.h. speed limit on Edgewood Lane, to change RO 2 zoning to decrease residential density and building height, and to allow construction of sewers for Quail Ridge East.
Other considerations include the amount of parking, the location of shade and wind protection and the screening of unsightly areas, he said.
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"Some take one or two hours, some as much three months," he said. Planning the development of the Allen Field House area, he said, took three months.
One of the most difficult jobs, Thomas said, is to determine what circulation needs to be achieved.
"We try to foresee where people will want to walk and then build the walls and place them."
Cost of the site development is included in the construction budget and is usually five to ten per cent of the budget. Thomas said, "Average cost, he said, is $10,000 to $25,000.
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Thomas said they tried to minimize maintenance of the grounds by selecting
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