USC design guidelines
- build upon distinctive
character via archr and landscape
- stylistically coordinated
- vary street widths and forms
based on hierarchy
- enhances the existing
built and landscape environments while creating new campus "fabric"
and landmark buildings
- wants to reflect use
of campus-research campus in 21st century
- human scale, more than
style, was the most critical factor in a successful campus design
- ‘fabric buildings’
which blend in a frame space rather than make a statement, and ‘landmark’
bldgs., to respond to context, highlighting important intersections
- types of trees
corresponding to certain areas and/or streets
- wants to maintain as
much natural topography as possible
- sustainable design
techniques- particularly water conservation and management
- increase shade,
decrease dark paving and dark roofing
Innovista Master Plan
sustainable urban live/work area
development of a world-class
waterfront park
revitalize critical areas of
downtown and link them to other redevelopment efforts, including the existing
Vista arts and entertainment district
planning area places urban,
mixed-use development within the framework of Columbia’s historic street grid
Innovista district’s
historic grid system will be designed primarily for pedestrians, while others
will provide vehicular service and access to parking
distinguishing feature of
the Innovista Master Plan will be the Congaree Regional Waterfront Park,
celebrating the City’s industrial heritage and riverside location
Mixed-use development at
Innovista will create housing, retail and office space in four- to six-storey
street-fronted buildings with multi-story parking structures
implementing the Master Plan
for the Innovista planning area will permit completion of the Three Rivers
Greenway, providing continuous waterfront access and signifi cant recreational
amenities to the region’s residents
bring urban housing to
downtown Columbia, including the Canal Side residential development along the
Columbia Canal, the City Club project and the Kline Property mixed-use
development along Gervais Street. A Hilton Hotel is under construction adjacent
to the Convention Center and the new USC baseball stadium, which will serve
students, residents and tourists
Redevelopment of the
property along the waterfront for mixed-use real estate and public park use
—and connecting it to downtown—is both a key challenge facing Innovista as well
as a singular opportunity for the community. Downtown Columbia currently has
limited public access to the Congaree
Urban design
Based on a sustainable
“garden city” design concept, the Innovista area will feature landscaped parks,
pedestrian promenades, streets that are friendly to both pedestrians and
bicyclists, and environmentally sustainable buildings.
The architectural design
concept envisions four- to six-story street-fronted urban buildings with parking
in multi-story structures
The urban design plan calls
for distinctive open space and architectural massing considerations to mark
these gateways
The Innovista design concept
creates a distinction between streets designed accessible for cars, but designed
primarily for pedestrians and bicycles (“A” streets), and streets designed for
the automobile (“B” streets) providing efficient vehicular access to all blocks
as well as to their service areas
Open space: The open space
design concept mirrors the historic street grid, transforming existing and
proposed streets into pedestrianfriendly roadways with shade tree canopies,
broad sidewalks and traffic-calming measures. It introduces urban, landscaped
open spaces to the grid along Greene Street and the gateway districts, and
culminates in the Congaree Regional Waterfront Park
The urban
design concept for Greene Street is to create a pedestrian street in the
European tradition as the primary link between the University and the Congaree
Regional Waterfront Park, featuring a narrow right-of-way framed by
street-fronted buildings whose ground floors present active commercial uses to
the street
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