California Institute of Technology
California Institute of Technology
Embarking on an ambitious initiative to construct three new science buildings, a campus center, and expand the student housing system, the California Institute of Technology retained Cooper Robertson to prepare a campus-wide plan to assist in properly controlling this new growth and to restore the sense of place found in the original campus plan done by Bertram Goodhue. Goodhue’s planning principles, forgotten in recent campus work, were used to determine immediate and future building sites and set broad material and massing guidelines. Cooper Robertson’s plan adds 1.3 million square feet to the existing 3.6 million square feet. It also suggests landscape restoration of certain significant spaces, the creation of new spaces, and a pattern of planting. Lastly, it proposes campus-wide systems for lighting and signage.