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Table 2: Actions to support sustainable campus planning
Category

Plan Actions

Campus planning

1. Make Tyndall avenue, the social core of academic life
2. Extend the pedestrian path, internal to the campus, towards east and reconnect it to Tyndall
Avenue
3. Create a new entrance, representative of the University, on Tyndall Place
4. Create new axes and panoramic views of Saint Micheal’s hill towards Fort Roayal Gardens
5. Create new connections between the town in the south, through openings in the dense
building fabric south of the campus
6. Reinforce the common sense of belonging of the area through the enhancement of Royal Fort
gardens
7. Create the new department of “life sciences” on the eastern side of the university district
8. Create a New Learning Centre on the existing site of Arts Library and IT Centre
9. Redevelop Hawthorns site at the entrance of the campus also for student residence functions
10. Create a new “welcome centre” building at the entrance of the campus and Royal Fort
gardens

Study Cases. 2-The University of Salford (Munchester) _ Turley Associates, 2011

Figure 3: Urban structure and localization (Macchia et Al. 2012)
The campus is located west of the old town of Salford about 3.2 km from Manchester and consists
of 3 colleges, 12 schools in total, integrated to some shops and an art museum. Albeit the mixture
of functions, they appear diffusely distributed over a land of 70 ha, marked by evident physical
barriers represented by Irwell river at east and the great Peel Park that rises at the centre of the
campus, on a greatly elevated plateau. For these reasons the activities of the campus appear to
be very fragmented, and the park, though with a high landscape-natural value, is not much used
also for its scarce visibility from outside.

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