The Site Design Guidelines serve as a guide for all site and landscaping improvements on the Clemson campus. They are meant to provide general direction for the design of campus improvements so that the concepts outlined in the Campus Master Plan can be implemented with a certain degree of standardization, maintaining a unified campus visual character.

The philosophy behind these guidelines is to provide design parameters in which creativity can flourish while maintaining overall planning and design objectives that reflect both broad philosophic principles and specific standards.

As the basis for evaluation by the University Planning and Design Office and University Facilities for proposed changes to the physical environment. As such, these guidelines will be instructive to architects, engineers, landscape architects, building committees and others involved in planning for change on the campus.