Johns Hopkins University | Great Excavations Homewood Campus Renovations

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Message #11 ... June 24, 2002

The GX list provides information you need during the "Great Excavations 2" project at the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus.

Today is Saturday, June 22. Today's GX includes:

1. The final design
2. The schedule
3. Subscribing and unsubscribing

1. The final design

You've already seen the artist's rendering at www.jhu.edu/gx/info/render.html. That drawing was done fairly early in the planning process, to present an idea of what the GX2 area will look like when it's finished.

Now, the detailed design has just been finished. See www.jhu.edu/gx/info/render2.html.

To orient you: The darkest shaded areas are the new brick and marble pathways and plazas. The areas within bold lines are buildings; the other light areas are either grassy areas or the patios directly surrounding buildings. Circles represent trees. North is to your right.

The final design is actually quite similar to the original concept. But there are some differences:

The main north-south path is wider than first envisioned. The reason: It has to be wide enough to accommodate fire trucks, and Baltimore City's standard has just increased to 18 feet.

There is now a second entrance (and an appropriate approach sidewalk) planned for the south side (the Garland side) of Levering Hall. This entrance, near the southwest corner of Levering, will be to a new Undergraduate Admissions meeting and conference area. The current south side entrance will remain the route into Levering Market. Both entrances will be marked by porticos.

The landscape architects are planning a lot more trees than you would expect from looking at the original concept drawing.

Some other points worth noting:

The area near the Glass Pavilion will be the most heavily wooded. Landscape architect Aaron Teeter, of the firm Floura Teeter Landscape Architects Inc., says his plan is to bring into the area a "finger" extended from the woods that are visible behind the Glass Pav. This extension onto campus of the natural systems directly to the west is a major component of the campus master plan, adopted in 2000. The trees in this area will include oaks, maples and sweetgums. There will also be azalea and rhododendron bushes.

The planting plan for the area directly in front of Levering's main entrance, by contrast, will take its cue from more formal look of the nearby lower quad: more evergreens, for instance, and perhaps some roses for color.

In the area between Garland, Latrobe, Levering and Hodson, Teeter will add more oak trees near Garland to complement those already in the area.

There will be a new way up onto the Garland Hall patio, from the west side near Hodson. This will be a handicapped-accessible incline, not steps.

Between Barton and Ames, the current steam vent surrounded by a low brick wall will be much better disguised by plants.

2. The schedule

Things are on track, at the moment, for completion of construction work before students return in the fall. The contractors originally had planned to finish the Garland-Latrobe-Levering-Hodson area by Labor Day and work on the area north to Gilman into October. But they decided it would be more efficient to work north to south and -- if the weather holds -- have all the sidewalks in by the opening of the fall semester. Some planting will take place this fall, and other new plants won't go in until spring. Keep track of progress on the GX2 Web cam at www.jhu.edu/gx/info/gxwebcam.html.

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