Oxford

Oxford College plays a key role in the university’s overall identity and “One Emory” philosophy. This campus today offers students many unique benefits including a more intimate scale than the Druid Hills campus, historic structures within a bucolic setting, a ceremonial Quad, and recent strategic student life investments. In order to capitalize on these strengths and better define the overall campus framework, the campus will be reimagined as a series of concentric character zones based on existing uses that will serve as a guide for future development. These character zones will consolidate user groups, and prioritize academic uses around the Quad, and student life and recreational uses along the campus periphery. 

In alignment with the character zone framework, the Oxford campus will benefit from the following recommendations: 

Activate and Extend the Quad

While the Quad is one of the campus’ main assets, the usability of the space will improve with activation strategies such as moveable chairs and by limbing up the tree canopy to increase visibility. An enhanced landscape experience between the Quad and the new student dining facility to the north will help to unify the campus experience. 

Enhance Community Edge

A series of new mixed-use buildings along Emory Street will provide the campus with additional housing close to campus, space for desired retail amenities, and a community gateway. The latter facilities will also serve the City of Oxford community. 

Create Northwest Residential Hub

Future student housing located adjacent to Haygood Hall establishes a second student housing hub on campus. This new northwestern cluster balances the concentration of student housing in the southeast corner of campus made up of Murdy Hall, Elizer Hall, and Fleming Hall surrounding and activating the central Quad with activity at all times of the day.