Design Standards
Planning + Design + Construction聽collaborates with their clients to design and聽facilitate the appropriate graphic and visual interpretation of the recognition and the honor bestowed. Exterior materials such as granite, bronze, stainless steel, aluminum and zinc have been used.
Standards and guidelines for聽creating recognition plaques, signage or environmental graphics are being developed by the University Architect in conjunction with a聽team of university professionals. The design of聽a tangible acknowledgment of a donor or benefactor聽for buildings and spaces聽depends on the type of building, the age of the building,聽the location on campus, the amount of the gift and the guidelines established by the naming committee and accepted by the Board of Trustees聽of the university.聽
For more information, please contact聽Lucy Cossentino-Sinnard.
In this example, the Class of 1953聽initiated a replacement of聽an original 1953 bench that stood聽at a side entrance of the聽Tangeman University Center. In 2003,聽the new聽bench would also聽commemorate the 50th anniversary of the graduating class of 1953. Working with Jim Kautz from the class of 1953, Planning + Design determined聽the聽new honorific bench should be highly visible and installed in an area that encouraged reflection and thought. The聽2003 renovation of the century-old Van Wormer Hall provided an ideal location within the聽serene landscape that borders the beginning of MainStreet at University Circle. Using materials associated with Van Wormer Hall, P+D designed a cantilever granite bench with a聽limestone back heralding two plaques on either side of the granite.
The聽limestone back displays the original plaque on聽the left聽side and a second plaque commemorating the rededication of the 1953 bench in 2004 upon the 50th class anniversary is seen on the right side.