101 North University North University Park East

Park West 5
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University Village/ North of Jefferson
Cardinal/Century 4 SITE
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University Park
PLANNING
Downtown East Area
Los Angeles University Park Academic Core
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USC Village will be a mixed-
University Park use urban environment
USC Village East Area
creating a common ground
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USC
campus with the surrounding
community. Our planning
goals include:
Vicinity Plan University Park
• Introduce a planning
framework of pathways
that provide permeability,
flexibility and durability

• Promote connections to
the surrounding patterns
of land use

• Integrate multiple
uses including shops
and restaurants,
residences, academic
facilities, and hotel

• Foster pedestrian
connectivity with the
surrounding community
Pedestrian and Vehicular Connections Open Space and Green Space Network • Line streets with uses
that engage pedestrians

• Provide a network of
usable open space
Hoover Street

Town
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Proposed Plan Proposed Massing

 Town Square OPEN SPACE

The surrounding open

space network will be
extended and enhanced:

• Provide a diversity of
open space including
Town Square spaces devoted to
public gatherings,
pedestrian movement,
and other social and
recreational functions
Market Square
• Design open space
areas to give them the
character of outdoor
rooms defined by buildings

• Integrate seating, lighting,

shop and building
entrances into the
pedestrian ways

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 Main Street

STREETSCAPE

Streetscape is a
combination of street,
sidewalk, and building base:

Main Street • Plan for a hierarchy of

street types, recognizing
Hoover Street Elevation vehicular capacity, adjacent
land use, and building
edge
Pedestrian Passage McClintock Avenue

• Pedestrian pathways
provide wide sidewalks
that accentuate street
furniture, street trees,
outdoor dining (where
appropriate) and
articulation of storefronts

Pedestrian Passage McClintock Avenue

Main Street Elevation

McClintock Avenue Pedestrian Passage

McClintock Avenue

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McClintock Avenue Pedestrian Passage

Jefferson Boulevard Elevation

 Clay tile or simulated tile roof

ROOF

STREET FACADE
Sloped roofs typical along
pedestrian street Top floor is defined by material or
(4:12 slope typical) color change or setback

Student MIDDLE Deep punched windows with full

Housing Student Housing
not coplanar with base
35 % Glazing / 65 % Wall
BASE
Retail Multi-Tenant Retail
70 % Glazing / 30 % Wall
Section Partial Building Elevation - Fundamentals
brick returns
Building masses and
facades will be designed for
the appropriate scale:
Diverse storefronts
representing individual identity of
shops. No neutral piers.
• Promote pedestrian scale
by definition of mass and
Partial Building Elevation - Definition of Elements Student Residences over Retail
proportion to foster active
ground floor uses

• Organize urban street

facades to have a definitive
base, middle, and top

• To enhance streetscape
and pedestrian activity,
TOP
Student Housing
Stone, brick or limestone
plaster cornice provide connectivity
coplanar with base
35 % Glazing / 65 % Wall
Balconies (occupiable and/
between buildings
or Juliette) provided at up
to 50 % of units (graduate

• Vary building heights to

housing only)

Stone or precast concrete

produce a skyline which

Student
Housing
MIDDLE lintels and sills
Student Housing Stone, brick or limestone
coplanar with base
35 % Glazing / 65 % Wall
plaster facade
has the variety of a true
Deep punched windows
urban village
with full brick returns

Stone, brick or limestone

BASE plaster facade
Campus
Services Campus Services Articulated storefront
50 % Glazing / 50 % Wall entrances to Campus
Services

Section Partial Building Elevation - Fundamentals Partial Building Elevation - Definition of Elements Student Residences over Campus Services

ROOF
Mechanical penthouse Mechanical penthouse
set back from facade screen (possibly incorporate
Mech. solar panels into screen)
TOP Metal panel or shingle facade
Top floor is set back and
may change material

Brick or stone facade

MIDDLE
Office/Academic
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40 % Glazing / 60 % Wall with full brick or stone returns

Stone, brick or limestone

plaster facade
BASE
Campus Services
Campus Services 50 % Glazing / 50 % Wall Articulated storefront
entrances to Campus Svcs.

Section Partial Building Elevation - Fundamentals Partial Building Elevation - Definition of Elements Office over Campus Services
BUILDING
MATERIALS

Building materials will

be diverse, durable, and
appropriate to place:

• Use building materials

that belong very
specifically to this place
and provide connection
between university and
surrounding community

• Select quality and durable

building materials

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STOREFRONTS
AND RETAIL
OPPORTUNITIES

Pedestrian streets will be an

important part of the public
realm with ample sidewalks,
street furniture, street trees,
lighting and signage. Our
goals include:
Specialty Retail
• Provide exclusive visibility
into street level interiors to
engage pedestrians

• Define the building base

which will be composed
of first floor or first two
floors, to enhance public
retail presence on the
street

• Create strong street walls

to define sidewalk and
provide continuous active
edge

Restaurant

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Destination Retail
 JEFFERSON
BOULEVARD
TRANSPORTATION
IMPROVEMENTS

Enhancements to Jefferson
Boulevard will be beneficial
to the community while
producing minimal change
in day-to-day traffic capacity.

Existing Jefferson Blvd. Views

• Four lanes of traffic plus a
turn or median lane exist
now and will continue to
exist after renovation

• Designated bike paths

will replace the parallel
parking, promoting a safer
environment for cyclists,
pedestrians, and motorists

• Sidewalks will be widened

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creating a more pedestrian

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friendly street crossing

experience and allowing
more space for streetscape
enhancements

Existing Jefferson Blvd. View Existing Jefferson Blvd. Section

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Proposed Bike Lane Proposed Jefferson Blvd. Section