Student housing

Master-plan, Fontainas park development, construction of 22 social housing and 35 student housing, 2 child-care rooms ( 20 children), a sports hall, a multi-purpose room, a restaurant space and a 42 slots parking space. Passive project, Eco-building.    In the heart of Brussels, the vast indefinite space of the Fontainas’ isle is the result of the demolition of the Philips factories.The site, although vast, constituted a succession of devalued spaces in a context of very heterogeneous dimensions in connection with the future pedestrian center, and equipped with some sports facilities.  The expected response was the reconstruction of the closed classical islet of the historic city, in order to cauterize the open wound... More

Completed at the end of 2018, the student housing is located at Gif-sur-Yvette, at the core of the Moulon’s ZAC on the Saclay’s plateau. New piece of the Centrale-Supelec’campus, it is  designed as a unitary architectural object, in dialogue with its close environment.   The apartments, designed to host a single or several students, are located in the upper floors. The ground floor is left free to host common spaces, such as a versatile hall, a laundry, and a parking facility. Largely opened to the outside, theses spaces interact with public areas and with others buildings on the campus, therefore participating in creating freed and improvised uses.   The building is structured around two large yards, th... More

Messecarree B is a ten-storey student dorm in the second district of Vienna. The shared facilities (Learning Lounge, seminar rooms) as well as commercial premises (Restaurants, Start-Up offices, Fitness Center) are located on two elevated basement levels of the building.These basement levels are spanned by redsidential floors and can be entered either via the plaza or a surrounding green landscape.Three staircases as well as elevators are placed in the center and on either side of the building with the main entrance on the north-eastern side connecting the plaza level.The inner and outer staircases are inserted through the glazed fassace and connect both sides with each other. In contrast the southern and centered staircases lead straight... More

Adohi Hall, the nation’s first large-scale mass timber live-learn student housing, opened to students this fall at the University of Arkansas.  The 708-bed complex demonstrates a pioneering use of cross-laminated timber (CLT) and an innovative approach to live-learn communities, with embedded arts and academic spaces fostering student collaboration and interactive learning.  This initiative is groundbreaking for the university and the State at large.  A bold demonstration of sustainability, it also signifies potential economic development for Arkansas’ burgeoning timber industry. Tim Hursley An emphasis on access to nature resonates throughout the project.  The housing group is a serpentine band of stud... More

Manchester-based architects and interior designers 74 have created the new 355 sq m ground-floor social and study amenity space within The Toybox, a new-build, 15-storey student accommodation block by architects Corstorphine + Wright, located on Bishopsgate Street in Birmingham. The client and project developer is Moorfield Group, for whom 74 previously completed the multi-award-winning Hox Haus, where a former Victorian gym was expanded and repurposed as a social and study clubhouse for students of Royal Holloway College.  The Toybox is a new glazed, green brick and zinc-clad block in the Westside area of Birmingham, just south-west of the city centre, The interior is comprised of 290 new student apartments, with 74 commissioned to c... More

In a singular approach of the relations between the domestic, the collective and the city, the student housing designed by AVA develops a vast atrium. Centerpiece of the operation, the atrium is designed as a place of freedom, passage, gatherings, hustle and bustle. It acts as a public square.   The sun rises on the East ! In Marne-la-Vallée, one of the five new towns imagined around Paris by the master plan of 1965, Cité Descartes is an international cluster for research and development. The campus brings together more than 50 research laboratories and 18 grandes écoles. 20000 students are enrolled in the various excellence schools housed in exceptional buildings: the ESIEE designed by Dominique Perrault in 1987... More

Olympia Place is a highly sustainable, progressively designed, and privately developed student housing building in Amherst, Massachusetts, adjacent to the University of Massachusetts campus. The project consists of a new, five-story, wood-framed building that provides 232 beds for students in 73 apartments. In addition to fully furnished units ranging from studios to 4-bedroom suites, the building provides students with a double-height common space with multiple fireplaces, study rooms, breakout spaces, a lounge, a fitness center, and a staffed front desk. Digital technology, ultra-fast wifi, and movable furniture put Olympia Place at the forefront of innovative student housing.    Adjacent to a woodland conservation, the irregu... More

The redevelopment of the 4.5-acre Wanamaker Middle School site at 11th Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue in Philadelphia is evolving into a mixed-use, privately owned student housing development for 2,500 student residents. Adjacent to the campus of Temple University, the redevelopment includes a vibrant mixed-use, privately owned residential and retail center, including apartments for 800 residents.This sustainably focused complex will include lively public open spaces and supporting retail options to anchor the southern edge of the campus neighborhood. The building’s dynamic program offers unique social environments, both inside and out, including formal and informal public spaces at both the ground and penthouse levels. These... More

Through a public-private partnership with Brown University, the University of Rhode Island and Rhode Island College, this $220M development transforms Providence’s Jewelry District and reclaims an urban place damaged through environmental degradation. Through the urban planning efforts, the district features new street grids, several transportation choices and the careful siting of buildings, creating a true sense of place.River House, a new riverfront multi-use residential community includes 270 beds for graduate student housing. The studio and one-and-two bedroom apartments feature spacious layouts, two roof decks create additional outdoor living, collaboration areas provide plentiful meeting spaces, and an 850-car parking facility helps... More

Take one imposing building, consisting of three separate areas, serving a very diverse clientele, and turn it into one giant living area that caters to the need of all. That, in a nutshell, was the challenge in renovating Amsterdam’s Hotel Casa. Founded in the late 1950s to help solve the housing shortage for students, Casa has always been a hybrid of sorts, serving as the (temporary) home of hotel guests, locals, student residents and people attending a board meeting or conference. In 2010 Casa moved to a new building but the concept stayed the same. Recent plans to renovate and modernise the convention center turned into a complete overhaul of both public and conference areas.In the new design connectivity was key. There’s one centra... More

Student housing often drown in mediocrity, with simple units stacked on top of each other in the cheapest way possible and left to themselves without support programs. The Moholt 50|50 project is a reaction to this. By inserting new housing collectives and a wide range of support services and public programs into an existing student village built in the sixties, a new active central area is created, erasing the psychological border between the student village and the surrounding area.The project is located in Trondheim, Norway. The title Moholt 50|50 represents a turning point in the history of the student village. Fifty years after the inauguration of the first student units at Moholt student village a competition for young architects was... More

CONTEXTIn the heart of Paris, this ambitious project takes up two large city blocks contiguous with the strategic position between Haussmannian Paris and 21st-century Paris of the Clichy-Batignolles eco-district, for which it serves as the bridgehead. A particular feature of this new district is its generous open urban spaces: the Square des Batignolles, the train tracks and the Parc Martin Luther King. This new development is in fact located at the juncture of beautiful Haussmannian buildings aligned around Square des Batignolles and the new Parc Martin Luther King, bordered here and there by 17-story buildings and dominated by the tallest object on the skyline, the Paris Tribunal de Grande Instance (high court of justice) designed by Renz... More

A celebrated sculptor and printmaker, in 1940 University of Iowa alumna Elizabeth Catlett became the first African American woman to earn a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in the United States. Named in her honor, Elizabeth Catlett Hall not only celebrates her life and legacy, but also addresses a critical shortage of university undergraduate housing.    Strong support indicates that the interconnectedness, inclusivity and social bonds established by living on-campus positively impact undergraduate students’ well-being and performance. But the University, previously operating at 100% housing capacity, was unable to offer on-campus housing to all undergraduates, prompting many to secure off-campus accommodations.    Overcoming the twin chal... More

Citrus Hall, the new University of La Verne residence and dining hall facility creates unique student success driven living and academic experiences for freshman students on campus.With an eye on recruitment and retention, the University of LaVerne looked to Steinberg Hart to design a new campus quad, envisioned as a hub of student activity and student life. Linking the campus center and Vista La Verne housing, it offers the first dining facility on campus and a large open green space for interaction and community. On the ground floor, access to the housing spaces includes an open and inviting entry with large social lounge and recreation activities, including a communal kitchen for student use.Working with a 1:32 RA to student ratio, these... More