TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY RIVERSIDE CAMPUS PLANHIGHWAY 2124FLIGHT LINE ROADWAREHOUSE ROADBRYAN ROADMilitary Heritage District1942-19571958-20121Proposed Building LocationsParkingPastureHIGHWAY 47NORTH
EXPERIENCES AT THE RIVERSIDE CAMPUSIV. EXPERIENCES AT THE RIVERSIDE CAMPUS 2020 AND BEYOND25Communicating a vision for the future marks thecritical step between data gathering about the pastand present condition and recommendations onprocedures that might assist in the implementation<strong>of</strong> a future state. Where the subject is a campus withmultiple users, and open-ended opportunities forgrowth in programs and activities, the ‘vision’ mustexcite the reader with words that imagine a futurestate.This section <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Riverside</strong> <strong>Campus</strong> <strong>Plan</strong> describesthree ‘stories’ <strong>of</strong> life at <strong>Riverside</strong> in 2020,based on existing and rapidly-developing situationsthat will require significant investment at <strong>Riverside</strong>if it is to achieve its potential to serve the multiplemissions <strong>of</strong> the university and the system <strong>of</strong> whichNATIONAL DELEGATION VISITS JOINTRESEARCH TEAMThe morning <strong>of</strong> 20 April 2020 dawned clear andbright. The Dean and several <strong>of</strong> her faculty andresearch staff check last-minute communicationsand head to the <strong>Riverside</strong> <strong>Campus</strong>. It is tenmiles down the road from the historic campus <strong>of</strong>the A&M College <strong>of</strong> <strong>Texas</strong> that opened in 1876,but light years away from the institution that existedthen. <strong>Texas</strong> A&M University now has over50,000 students from diverse and internationalbackgrounds, there are ten colleges doing fundamentaland applied research that attracts worldwideattention, and changes the lives <strong>of</strong> people <strong>of</strong><strong>Texas</strong>, the nation and around the globe.The <strong>Riverside</strong> <strong>Campus</strong> has been a critical part<strong>of</strong> the teaching, research and service mission forover fifty years, but its physical resurgence sincethe adoption <strong>of</strong> a <strong>Campus</strong> <strong>Plan</strong> in 2012 has resultedin a new sense <strong>of</strong> community and increased therange and quantity <strong>of</strong> cross-disciplinary research.Turning <strong>of</strong>f Highway 47 at the well-marked entryroad to <strong>Riverside</strong> the first stop is the EntranceGate where a wave <strong>of</strong> a security pass allows authorizedmembers <strong>of</strong> the university to pass underthe long canopy with the “<strong>Texas</strong> A&M University<strong>Riverside</strong> <strong>Campus</strong>” signage standing proudly asthe 1943 “Bryan Air Base” sign did so long ago.The entry road sweeps past cattle grazing on theVet School’s pasture and ends at the junction <strong>of</strong>FIGURE 1Facing page: Conceptual Future<strong>Riverside</strong> <strong>Campus</strong>.it is a part. The following section, V. Components<strong>of</strong> the <strong>Campus</strong> <strong>Plan</strong>, suggests specific approachesto physical change in support <strong>of</strong> the transformation<strong>of</strong> the <strong>Riverside</strong> <strong>Campus</strong>. Section VI. Policy, Operationsand Design Control, proposes managementand operational policies, and design guidelines forexisting and new buildings and the landscape at<strong>Riverside</strong> <strong>Campus</strong> that will ensure that the physicalnature <strong>of</strong> the campus reflects the quality <strong>of</strong> thepeople and programs that are housed there.The journey from the center <strong>of</strong> the historic campuspasses leading research and teaching facilitiesthat stretch along University Drive, goes underthe Wellborn Road and the railroad tracks to awide thoroughfare with the West <strong>Campus</strong> on thesouth, passing the extensive research and teachingcampus <strong>of</strong> the College <strong>of</strong> Veterinary Medicine andBiological Sciences to the north, skirts past the researchand biological manufacturing complex <strong>of</strong>the regional Bio-Corridor, and heads north-west5th Street and Bryan Road, where the <strong>Riverside</strong>Center, now five years old, is the hub <strong>of</strong> activityon campus.The Center is at the east end <strong>of</strong> the Military HeritageDistrict and occupies the site <strong>of</strong> the HeadquartersWing <strong>Office</strong>s constructed in 1952. TheCenter houses the administrative <strong>of</strong>fices thatcoordinate activities, the University Police Department<strong>of</strong>fice, a cafeteria, and meeting roomssupported by a business center and IT facilitiesSo, follow possible headlines from the future, andon Highway 47, past the <strong>Texas</strong> A&M Health Sci-capable <strong>of</strong> teleconferencing around the globe. The‘imagine’ the new <strong>Riverside</strong> <strong>Campus</strong>.ence Center complex.parking to the west serves the Center and the 1943
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