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06-02-25 | Education

Community Gathering Drives Recent Campus Design

LASN 2025 Campus Survey Results
by Keziah Olsen, LASN

Landscape Architects designing school and corporate campus projects have seen an emphasis on safety and accessibility to support an increased focus on group gatherings, according to LASN's recent Campus Survey. (Photo of North Carolina State University's Talley Student Union, landscape architecture by Bolton & Menk)

LASN's annual Campus Survey revealed that the most important factors Landscape Architects take into account when designing school and corporate campuses are lighting/security, providing a place for campus gatherings, and creating a connection to the community. This finding is supported by a particular emphasis on illuminated site amenities and accessibility features that allow the intended users to more easily move around in the space and feel safe doing so.

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As the most common camps projects designed in the last two years were at universities, amenities that facilitate functionality and aesthetics, like shade structures and planters, ranked higher than amenities that common to K-12 campuses, like sports equipment and play structures.

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