Credo: Method - Campus Design

Do you know what it takes to create a truly engaging environment?

At Credo, we’re dedicated to evolving your total student experience by integrating the latest data-driven design practices and trends into your plans. Our collaboration with more than 50 private colleges and universities also inspires deep insights and transformative solutions.

From new student housing and instructional facilities to highly anticipated science centers and master plans, our proprietary approach builds a sense of involvement from all members of your extended campus community. It also ensures a responsible balance of your wish list with needs and resources.

Campus Planning aligns your physical environment and strategic goals. We help you identify better ways to achieve the ideal total student experience and maximize engagement on your campus.

Experience Planning creates exceptional welcome experiences, dynamic teaching and learning environments, and more flexible residential spaces for students to live, learn and socialize.

Architectural Design focuses on the successful delivery of facility solutions that help you maximize your total student experience.

Campus Planning

Give us an opportunity to review your campus holistically. We’ll help you strategically align your campus environment with your mission and vision. We’ll also examine the efficiency and effectiveness of spaces and places, and compare them against best practices.

Campus Master Planning

Campus Master Planning provides a visual picture of a shared vision among key stakeholders, and a clear and actionable roadmap for the future. We achieve this through a highly collaborative and interactive series of design workshops and briefings.

We create your implementation plan together based on your resource allocation projections. It highlights numerous low-cost, high-impact projects to create enthusiasm and momentum.

Optimize U℠

Are you challenged with inefficient class scheduling and classroom sizes?

We built the largest database of building space benchmarks for private colleges and universities. This knowledge, combined with ideal functional relationships – who goes where – can help you determine how to gain the most from your organization and its facilities.

Experience Planning

Experience Planning creates an exceptional and customized welcome experience, dynamic teaching and learning environments, and more flexible residential spaces for your students to live, learn and socialize.

Your entire welcome experience quickly creates lasting impressions for students and parents. It should reflect your institution’s brand, create a sense of belonging, foster engagement, and ultimately develop community. Let us provide a comprehensive assessment and identify solutions to make your welcome and guest experiences more intentional and authentic.

Credo can also help you deliver the ideal learning experience – classrooms, labs, studios, informal gathering spaces, campus-wide student support services, and academic programming offices – where students and faculty collaborate. These are paramount for increasing retention and effective learning that builds lasting success for students and faculty.

Together, we can create a living experience that is comfortable, promotes individual student development, respects your institution’s mission, and creates a sense of community and belonging. Let us help you identify your ideal student residential experience, evaluate current residence life facilities and find the best approach to opportunities for improvement.

Architectural Design

We’re known for designing campuses and facilities to support a community of learners. We specialize in designing residence halls, welcome centers, academic facilities, and student life environments.

Data-driven research is used to integrate the immediate and longer term uses into your design. You also have your own unique identity and we work with you to understand the impact it should have on your campus environment.

Through an inclusive and engaging workshop-based process, we make the design process transparent – building momentum, excitement and consensus.

90-Day Student Housing Renovation

Do you really need a new residence hall?

Our 90-Day Student Housing Renovation service allows for the renovation of an existing residence hall during one summer – with no loss of revenue.

Renovating a residence hall instead of constructing a new one positively contributes to:

Sustainability by creating less waste
Tradition and historic value by retaining the unique character of your campus architecture
Your bottom line due to lower cost
Structurally sound buildings for sound and vibration transmission due to the quality of older construction