4 UC Riverside Campus Design Guidelines

The goal of these Design Guidelines is to support

UCR’s vision for the future. This document
serves to implement the 2005 Long Range
Development Plan (LRDP), which expresses
UCR’s vision and goals related to the campus’s
physical development, including:
• Enhancing UCR’s image and
identity
• Accommodating planned growth
for UCR to at least 25,000 students
• Emphasizing strong connections
and ease of access within
campus and to the surrounding
community
• Creating a regional model
of planning, design and
environmental stewardship
A guiding principle for UCR’s development is
to create a campus that is responsive to the intrinsic
character of the region. UCR can achieve
this by:
• Fostering an intellectually-inspired
‘community of learning’
• Providing visual connections to
the surrounding landscape
• Respecting the legacy of clear,
modernist design that established
the original campus buildings and
utilizing the buildings to support
the campus open space system
• Strengthening the relationship
between buildings and landscape
in new construction
• Integrating new development with
the existing campus through the use
of complementary materials, colors,
structures and landscape elements
Policy Mandat es
These guidelines indicate the University’s commitment
to societal values and a larger policy
context by promoting sustainability and environmental
stewardship with particular attention
to new development’s response to the local
climate. New development should also provide
universal accessibility to ensure a high-quality
educational experience for all UCR students as
well as faculty, staff and visitors in compliance
with the Americans with Disability Act.
Goals