This document summarizes Judy Clark Dale's portfolio and experience with campus design projects. She has extensive experience with: 1) Renovating and redesigning campus greens, plazas, walkways, and other outdoor spaces at several University of California campuses to improve accessibility, sustainability, and usability. 2) Leading multidisciplinary teams in developing long-range campus master plans and detailed construction documents. 3) Incorporating historic preservation and restoring historic campus landscapes designed by noted landscape architects like Thomas Church and John Galen Howard.

1. campus design
campus greens and plazas
historic buildings and landscapes
student housing
campus circulation
public access
creeks and wetlands
master planning
site design
contract documents
presentation graphics
historic preservation
planting design
sustainable design
leed documentation
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2. LEED Gold student housing courtyard, plaza, and streetscapes at the University of California’s newest campus, UC
Merced. Dynamic design embracing the innovative spirit of the new campus.
The design takes inspiration from the visual forms of the Central Valley setting--the long vistas to the horizon, the
repeating horizontal lines of crop rows and field edges, and the network of rectangular fields, whose geometry
appears to shift from rectilinear to angled as one moves through the landscape. Paving and planting areas take
their shape from an angled, non-rectilinear grid. Long parallel lines of trees, paving bands, seat walls, benches, and
trellises draw the eye through and beyond the site. From this strong simple framework, the design creates a variety
of outdoor spaces: soft, hard, shaded, sunny, active, quiet, places for one or two people, and places for crowds.
Sustainable design elements include several types of pervious paving, a street-edge bioswale, native and low-
water-use plants, water-efficient irrigation, local and recycled materials in structures and concrete, covered bicycle
parking, low solar-reflectance
paving, and tree planting and
trellises to shade building
walls and paving.
Lead designer, project manager,
PGAdesign
the summits
Rehabilitation of a historic campus green and reflecting pool at the University of California, Berkeley. Long-range
and interim concept plans, and construction of first phase.
This project restores to campus use a major contemplative open space, originally designed by John Galen Howard.
The first phase restores the heart of the Mining Circle, a century-old reflecting pool and its sloping lawn setting. The
long-range design reestablishes the powerful geometry of the circular green and roadway within a square frame
of buildings. Incorporating input from many campus groups,
the project design meets contemporary needs for pedestrian
accessibility and vehicular circulation, while respecting historic
design symmetries and retaining the essential character of the
Mining Circle as a place of tranquility and reflection.
Lead designer, project manager, consultant team leader,
PGAdesign
mining circle
Design for a major pedestrian entrance to the University of California, Berkeley.
The design for the West Campus Entrance, a gift from the Class of 1953, was developed in concert with the Class
of ’53 gift committee and reflects their wishes to identify the campus, welcome visitors, and look outward to the
world. The landscape, featuring an ornamental bronze and concrete University sign and a climbable bronze globe
sculpture by Arnaldo Pomodoro,
won a Preservation Award
from the Berkeley Architectural
Heritage Association.
Lead designer, project manager,
consultant team leader,
Perkins Design
west campus entrance
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3. Transformation of the space enclosed by three neoclassical buildings into a multi-use courtyard.
Originally envisioned as a formal Tuscan garden for UC Berkeley’s agricultural complex, Wellman Courtyard instead
fell victim to campus needs for parking and temporary building space. This project removed the portable buildings
filling the space and created a courtyard of permeable pavers within the curving lines of existing pollarded plane
trees. Simple and elegant in form and materials, the design allows for flexible use of the courtyard.
The paving pattern delineates parking stalls for forty cars without
sacrificing the refined appearance of a plaza. The design reinforces
the Tuscan theme of the surrounding landscape with Italian alders,
lavender, rosemary hedges, and gravel mulch.
Lead designer, project manager, consultant team leader,
PGAdesign
wellman courtyard
Redesign of the main entrance to a historic library building and the associated landscape of a campus roadway in
the heart of the UC Berkeley campus.
The new entrance to the Bancroft Library, designed in coordination with Ratcliff Architects, provides disabled access
and reinforces the building’s simple formal architecture. Level walls along the new entry ramp balance level planters
on the opposite side of the central doorway, maintaining the symmetry and clean, straight lines of the building.
Broad sloping cheek walls flank the new entry stairs, and long seat-height planters to either side invite people to
stay awhile. The rich brick and concrete paving is patterned after the adjacent plaza designed by Thomas Church
and the historic brick paving of Campanile Esplanade.
The project also re-envisioned the adjacent landscape of South Hall Road, creating a more formal and pedestrian-
oriented space, lined by tall canopy trees and double-headed campus standard lights, and paved with brick, concrete,
and brick-like concrete pavers. The street trees are a disease-resistant
American elm hybrid.
Lead designer, project manager,
Perkins Design
DOE LIBRARY ANNEX
Renovation of a campus way, plaza, and main entry to a new sports pavilion at UC Berkeley, incorporating forms
and materials befitting both the new world-class sports facility and the historic gymnasium façade retained within
the new building.
The design reshaped the entry steps to allow placement of historic cast iron light fixtures, cast iron planter bowls,
bronze handrails, and integral-color pre-cast concrete stair facings. Asphalt paving in the plaza and campus way
was replaced with interlocking concrete pavers, the first large-scale instance of such paving on the Berkeley campus.
Lead designer, project manager,
consultant team leader,
Perkins Design
spieker plaza
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4. Redesign of a campus way within UC Berkeley’s Classical Core landscape. Long-range design, and construction of
initial phase.
Part of the historic network of formal walks and roads in the campus’s beaux-arts landscape, Oppenheimer Way has
for some years been used as a construction staging site and roadway. The project design returns it to pedestrian use,
strengthens its formal spatial role, and gives adjacent neoclassical buildings the gracious forecourt they deserve.
The design shifts the traveled way to the center of the corridor, minimizing paving, enhancing axial views, and
allowing for additional planting, seating, and bicycle parking on the sides. The design responds to the symmetry
and detailing of the adjacent buildings and to the curving forms of landscape elements designed by Thomas Church.
Lead designer, project manager,
PGAdesign
oppenheimer way
Renovation of two distinct landscapes at a historic neoclassical building at UC Berkeley.
This project renovated the landscape on the east and south sides of the Hearst Memorial Mining Building, a graceful
neoclassical structure designed by John Galen Howard, which faces and frames the northern edge of the Mining
Circle open space. The landscape design for the south-facing façade is formal and symmetric, in keeping with the
building. In contrast to this refined evergreen landscape, the landscape to the east
of the Mining Building is a steeply sloping bit of wild land, a remnant of the original
campus landscape with the addition of tall pines and eucalyptus trees, and with one
flatter area over structure. Here, the project brought hillside steps and paths to code,
added lighting, and planted native oaks, shrubs, and grasses.
Lead designer, project manager,
Perkins Design
hearst memorial mining building
Redesign of the landscape at the north end of South Hall, the oldest building on the UC Berkeley campus. Long-
range concept plan, and construction documents for interim development.
Demolition of South Hall Annex provided the opportunity to enhance the setting for South Hall and reconnect it
to the landscape of Campanile Way, the historic east-west campus walk aligned with Berkeley’s iconic bell tower.
The design creates an understated formal foreground to South Hall, preserves existing live oak trees, reinforces the
Campanile Way axis with tree and shrub planting, and provides for diagonal pedestrian movement through the
space. In the long-range design, a rectangular courtyard of pervious paving, framed by native shrubs, provides
disabled and service parking. The interim plan creates an
oak woodland meadow of native sedge, iris, and wildflowers
beneath the existing oak trees, with shrub and tree planting
to define the edges of Campanile Way and the future parking
court.
Lead designer, project manager,
PGAdesign
south hall
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5. Design studies for a University of California research station on the shore of San Francisco Bay.
Conceptual plans for the southern half of the field station and its interface with the
bayshore. Schematic design alternatives for trails, grading, and fencing, to link the station
to the San Francisco Bay Trail while providing security and ensuring protection for sensitive
tidal marsh and adjacent upland habitat. A separate study explored site design options for
a complex of constructed basins to be used for research on sewage treatment by wetlands.
Lead designer, project manager,
Perkins Design
richmond field station
Landscape renovations triggered by underground utilities work, especially installation of room-sized communications
vaults, at sites throughout the UC Berkeley campus.
Projects offered the opportunity to rework the campus landscape at a dozen sites, making it more beautiful,
sustainable, and usable. Projects improved accessibility, de-emphasized vehicles in the central campus area,
provided bicycle parking, installed more efficient irrigation and more
drought-tolerant and native planting, reinforced important views with
planting and path alignments, replaced asphalt with permeable paving
where appropriate, and provided additional seating.
Lead designer, project manager,
Perkins Design
utilities landscape renovation
Site planning and construction design to improve pedestrian and disabled access into the UC Berkeley campus
from downtown Berkeley and complete a much-needed north-south bicycle route through the campus.
Site planning studies explored alternative routes and improvements in order to minimize impacts on the Grinnell
Natural Area, through which the main pedestrian path and the proposed intersecting
bicycle path pass. The final design accommodates high pedestrian use, including
large crowds going to and from athletic events, minimizes conflicts between
pedestrians, bicycles, and cars, and maintains the health of the Grinnell Natural Area
and Strawberry Creek.
Lead designer, project manager,
Perkins Design
west campus entry and bicycle path
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6. Graphics and site design in support of master planning work for these two university campuses.
For Millikin University, in Decatur, Illinois, contributed illustrative graphics for the overall master plan, and site design
studies for a proposed chapel and other areas of the campus.
For Stetson University, in Deland, Florida, created vignette
sketches and diagrams illustrating campus design guidelines.
Designer, graphic support,
Eldon Beck Associates
millikin and stetson universities
The Alameda Redevelopment project converted a road through the heart of the Santa Clara campus into a pedestrian
landscape of greens, paths, and gathering areas. In addition to illustrative drawings for the master plan, provided
site design and detailed schematic design of courtyards, terraces, fountains, and trellises.
Designer, graphic support,
Eldon Beck Associates
santa clara university
Site analysis, graphics, and design input to a comprehensive study of landscape, open space, circulation, and parking
at the University of California, Berkeley. Worked with Russ Beatty, faculty member of the Department of Landscape
Architecture and chairman of the Chancellor’s Task Force, to develop the site-specific design recommendations
included in the task force report. This report, part of the Berkeley
Campus Space Plan, laid important groundwork for the later
development of the Landscape Master Plan.
Designer, graphic support
chancellor’s task force
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