1: Physically connecting the MSV site to the City of Winchester by foot, bike, and vehicular paths and roads

2: Respecting and curating the wonderful architecture, gardens, and farmland that are already established. Acting as good stewards for these campus assets

3: Creating a well-organized, cohesive, engaging, and meaningful visitor experience that interprets the main theme and topics of the MSV, specifically that the people of the Shenandoah Valley create, nurture, and sustain a place, culture, and identity that are uniquely Shenandoah

4: Creating a cultural park which can accommodate large events, as well as musical, educational, and recreational activities.

5: Designing new landscape elements and places which build on the existing gardens, which embody and reflect the way land is used in the Shenandoah Valley

6: Creating a cohesive campus of buildings and spaces which complement each other and contribute to the whole, rather than compete, or replicate each other

7: Designing buildings which build on the precedent of the existing architecture, and which embody the values and characteristics of the architecture and landscape of the Shenandoah Valley

8: Creating new structures and landscape elements using the beautiful architectural material palette of the Shenandoah Valley, including limestone, brick, wood, stucco, and stone

9: Making the entire site a place for wonder, beauty, recreation, learning, and fun