Creatively connecting students, places, and spaces was the goal on the grounds surrounding Centralia College’s 70,000 sq.-ft. student union building. SCJ’s landscape architecture studio designed all exterior hardscape, plazas, sustainable landscape and high-efficiency irrigation. To help the architects and school visualize design options for the courtyards and hardscape design, 3-D models were created by the landscape architecture team. Design elements included creating student gathering spaces around the building and reconfiguring streets into student pedestrian plazas.