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THE SAFE AND SECURE CAMPUS
strategies—applies to more complex impli- cations within the collegiate environment.
DESIGN
A college campus is a world within a world. The collegiate community, like the neighborhood school, operates as a tightly knit system that integrates campus-wide security—operational safety, technical safety, physical safety—within its charter.
One framework that can guide us in this discussion is the national building design standard CPTED (Crime Preven- tion Through Environmental Design). As we seek to use the built environment to positively impact the psychological land- scape of the student population, CPTED offers “a multidisciplinary approach to deterring criminal behavior that focuses on changing how places are laid out, and how they look and feel.”
As we examine the application of en- vironmental design across an entire cam- pus, CPTED goes well beyond traditional approaches to protecting the environment by engaging covert surveillance, strict ac- cess control, and territorial reinforcement in a way that presents a psychological deterrent to those who either should not be on the school site or plan to engage in criminal activity.
Simply stated, these principles can be addressed at three distinct levels of environ- mental design—site, layout, and materials. These elements obviously vary significantly in library and academic buildings as com- pared to residence halls or athletic facilities, but the design philosophy behind them and their integration with systems and strategies allows us to seek meaningful solutions ap- propriate to each context.
Within the design process, it is crucial that campuses retain the tenets of the master plan that created them. However, it is equally important for the design of each newly constructed or renovated building to examine and reinforce the systematic properties of the discipline that add
to the complexities of providing a safe environment.
Ultimately, the design of educational institutions must acknowledge both the individual learner and the multitude
of interactions that occur on any given day influencing and supporting the environment for learning, living, playing, and enjoying leisure time on campus.
DESIGN + SYSTEMS
In the quest to create a safer campus, environmental design is the foundation for a successful plan. Beyond the intelligent selection of site, layout, and materials,
the next critical layer is the application of security systems onto that environment,
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