CHABOT COLLEGE LANDSCAPE MASTER PLAN
Royston Hanamoto Alley & Abey
Landscape Architects
tBP / Architecture
Architecture
Alternative 2:
Campus as reflection of the California landscape
Preferred Plan
Project Goals:
•To enhance campus identity
•To make the campus an attractive, pleasant environment
•To develop an appropriate landscape theme for the campus
•To improve the public image of the campus
•To utilize a low maintenance and sustainable landscape approach
Landscape Themes:
Campus as arboretum
Landscape Themes:
Campus as reflection of the California Landscape
Zone A:
Vehicular and Pedestrian Entries
• Identify entries with symbolic gateways
• Special paving
• Flowering trees
Zone A:
Vehicular and Pedestrian Entries
• Identify entries with symbolic gateways
• Special paving
• Flowering trees
Zone B:
Primary Circulation
• Define circulation with formal
arrangement of trees
• Special paving
• Flowering trees
Zone B:
Primary Circulation
Zone C:
Secondary Circulation
• Retain park-like character
• Curved or meandering paths
• Plant with flowering trees, shrubs and
groundcovers
• Provide seating where possible
Zone C:
Secondary Circulation
Zone D:
Vehicular Circulation and
Parking Lots
• Flowering trees highlight pedestrian
walks
• Flowering trees highlight vehicular
routes
• Provide tree coverage of parking
areas
• Utilize bioswales where possible
• Plant street frontages with new
trees and shrubs
Zone D:
Vehicular circulation and parking lots
Zone E:
Courtyards – Grand Court
• Redesigned amphitheater to improve
accessibility
• Central lawn area as gathering space
• Retain tree bosques
• Add new flowering specimen trees
• Terrace from library with grand seat steps
Zone E:
Courtyards – Drama Court
• Oval central lawn as multi-use space
• Rose garden with seat walls
• Specimen trees at entrance
• Bosques of flowering trees define space
• Inscribed seating with theatrical quotes
Zone E:
Courtyards – Classics Court
• Rose garden and central seating area
• Poetry inscribed in paving
• Sculpture walk along art and humanities
Zone E:
Courtyards – Oak Court
• Maintain existing oaks
• Create central seating area
• Perennial garden of native plants that
attract birds and butterflies
Zone E:
Courtyards – Food Court
• New special paving to define area
• Reinvigorate pollarded trees
• New site furniture and lighting
• Perennial garden to define edge of space
Zone E:
Courtyards – Science Court
• Large central lawn with seating
• Inscribed wall with science feature
• Special paving
• Create seating area with science focus
Zone E:
Courtyards – Technology and
Palm Court
• Shade garden retains existing oaks
• Retain existing palms and supplement
with additional palms
• New oval lawn with flowering trees and or
palms
• Art piece with technology focus
Zone E:
Science Walk
• Walk connecting science and technology
buildings
• Art feature related to sciences links walks
• Provide seating where possible
• Highlight with special paving
• Flowering trees and shrubs
Zone E:
Student Services Plaza
• Bosques of flowering trees
• Special paving
• Educational quote
Zone E:
Athletic Field Entrance
• Perennial gardens with native shrubs and
perennials
• Special paving
• Entry court with seating and special paving
Site Furniture:
• New family of site furniture
General Recommendations:
• Evaluate existing trees and retain large and unique specimens where possible.
• For all new planting, provide high quality topsoil amended to optimize plant fertility.
• Provide drainage for all planting areas and raised planters where necessary.
• Proved adequate planting area for all tree root zones. Use deep root planters where
necessary to prevent damage to paving areas.
• Upgrade site lighting to meet minimum standards for lighting of public spaces. Provide
pedestrian, vehicular, accent and feature lighting to highlight landscape areas.
Coordinate light locations with trees and planting areas.
• Select disease and pest resistant plants.
• Provide centralized irrigation system following guidelines provided by maintenance
staff.
• Utilize concrete paving for proposed pedestrian walkways within the campus core. In
feature areas use concrete paving with integral color and sawcut score joints.
• Utilize sustainable design principles wherever possible.
Project Area:
Process:
Site Analysis
Entries, Circulation, Nodes, Landmarks
Landscape Zones:
Alternative 1:
Campus as arboretum