Proposed Fraternity Plans


Carnegie Mellon hired Ayers Saint Gross, an architectural consulting firm from Baltimore to do further master planning for the precinct of campus north of Forbes Avenue which includes the fraternity quad. Ayers Saint Gross were the consultants for the 2000 Carnegie Mellon Master Plan approved by the City of Pittsburgh.

ASG representatives held two planning sessions on campus during spring 2002 and met with fraternity representatives on March 18, 2002 and April 30, 2002. The drawings below represent the evolution of concept designs for reconstruction of the fraternity quad. The final proposal maintains the two fraternity duplexes at the north edge of the quad which were renovated in 1999 and 2000 and proposes replacing the remaining four duplexes with eight, free-standing fraternity houses while clearing the corner of Morewood and Forbes Avenues for a new university building to serve as a "capstone" at the north end of The Cut.

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North of Forbes Plan


This sketch is of the final master plan recommendations for the section of campus north of Forbes and proposes future development of the current Morewood and Doherty parking lot sites in addition to reconfiguration of the fraternity quad.

Open Space


This sketch is diagrammatic of the preliminary plans for reconfigured green space and paths of travel in and through the new fraternity quad configuration.

Preliminary Fraternity Quad Plans


This sketch shows existng buildings to remain in black and new buildings in brown. A new one-way service drive begins at Morewood behind Sigma Nu and follows the path of the current quad roadway until it meets the light brown service court at the lower right of the quad and then turns toward Morewood Gardens and follows behind the new capstone building to exit at Morewood Avenue. The drive will be configured to be a "walkway that can be driven on" as opposed to the current street that exists in the quad. All current quad parking is relocated to lots outside the quad. The current fraternity garage complex is removed, and twelve individual garages are built into the hillside along the new service "walks".

Axonometric Drawing


This axonometric drawing is a concept view of the proposed quad in three dimensions, including the new university building at the corner of Morewood and Forbes Avenues.



Knowing that continued housing of fraternity organizations during demolition and construction is very important, ASG has proposed one possible phasing plan for replacement of the existing four duplexes and garage complex. In phase one, the garage complex would be removed and the first two chapter houses and twelve replacement garages (all the brown buildings) constructed. In phases two through five, fraternity chapters would be relocated to new buildings and then old buildings replaced with new buildings, ending in the last duplex at the corner of Morewood and Forbes and the Alumni House being replaced by the capstone building.

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 4

Phase 5


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