Sasaki’s master plan integrates and articulates public spaces and buildings that are created and configured to facilitate interaction and collaboration. The importance of the quality and interrelationship of design of the public realm, the adjacencies of different programs and uses, and the underlying digital connectivity and accessibility throughout the campus are combined in the master plan. Streets, buildings, sidewalks, and parks have been considered for their potential to become “living laboratories,” where ongoing innovation and invention such as renewable energies, new modes of transportation, and new technologies, can be displayed and shared. As the underpinning to the plan, Sasaki developed a comprehensive sustainability strategy that incorporates buildings, infrastructure, and landscape.

At the point of transition between the Foster-designed campus and the new district is a dynamic mixed-use hub, made up of business centers, a hotel, exhibition & event center, recreation, retail, and restaurants—a catalytic place where academia and private industry can engage and collaborate.

The UTP R&D Cluster provides a vision for a new and unique district that builds on the distinctive identity of the university, maximizing the opportunity for new strategic industrial partnerships, and balances the extraordinary environmental setting of the site.