WMU Board of Trustees Plaza Renovation

Campus
Written by Chelsie Wyse

SERVICES PROVIDED

  • Master Planning

  • Schematic Design

  • Construction Documents

  • Bidding Assistance

  • Contract Administration

  • Project Management


SUB CONSULTANTS

Slocum Architects

Geotech, Inc.

Engineering Plus, Inc.

LDW 2.0

TMB Consulting


ESTIMATED PROJECT BUDGET

$1.8 million


YEAR COMPLETED

2022

AWARD

Merit Award: American Society of Landscape Architects/Michigan Chapter 2023

OCBA was retained to redesign a fountain space between the Library and the new Student Center in the heart of the WMU campus. Goals included creating a low maintenance green space with the sound of water, and reusing most if not all of the granite slabs WMU had acquired from a previous buiding demolition.

Existing retaining walls were refaced and recapped with granite, and curved seat wall were placed in front of a series of granite steps over with water flows into a pondless basin before it is recirculated to the top. The angular granite fountain steps are softened by lush sedge and ornamental grass plantings.

Chelsie Wyse

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