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Urbanist

For a project I'm doing, I'm interested in learning what people think are the most outstanding and innovative examples of student housing/dormitory design, both building and campus planning scales, internationally and both built/unbuilt.

 
Jul 19, 05 3:03 pm
A Center for Ants?

Classic
aalto - Baker House, MIT

others recent projects that are interesting:

holl - simmons house, MIT
murphy/jahn have something at IIT

Jul 19, 05 3:34 pm  · 
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Urbanist

Thanks.

Holl = frightfully expensive (mention it and clients run for cover)

IHouse, in the Safdie-designed Eleanor Roosevelt College at UCSD is pretty cool.

Jul 19, 05 3:38 pm  · 
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willow street dorms by scogin elam at tulane university are a different take: apartment/townhouse-ish.

Jul 19, 05 3:40 pm  · 
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AP

recently re-done grad dorms by Jonathan Levi of Boston

Jul 19, 05 3:50 pm  · 
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Urbanist

Wow.. thanks Steven. I just looked it up on the web. $12,000,000 for 330 beds.. $36,000/bed, $110/sq ft. Is that right? That's phenomenal (1/7th the psf cost of Simmons/Holl)

Jul 19, 05 3:58 pm  · 
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Urbanist

aaron... I asume you're talking about 29 Garden?

Jul 19, 05 4:04 pm  · 
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A Center for Ants?

oh. the unit 1 & 2 addition/remodel at berkeley is fairly nice (from the outside at least)
i believe EHDD did it.

Jul 19, 05 4:43 pm  · 
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AP

ya urbanist, 29 Garden.

Jul 19, 05 5:42 pm  · 
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AP

I like the Sanitorium by Aalto as an example, even though it's not a student dormitory per se...

Jul 19, 05 5:44 pm  · 
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jpalmer

i know its not a dorm, but look up Pruitt-Igo if you want to know what NOT to do

Jul 19, 05 6:29 pm  · 
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bawmis

lewistsurmakilewis just did one
machado and silvetti have a few better than average ones
several new dorm projects have used Leed well i just can't name any of them
kieran timberlake does them well just finished the first phase of a decent set at cornell

Jul 19, 05 8:39 pm  · 
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melivt

business school dorms @ harvard (alston branch-southside!) machado silvetti's

"special kids" dorm @ uva, williams + tsein's

married dorms also @ harvard, jl sert

there is a small area outside of freiburg (germany) called vauban (after the french engineer) which has a plethora of exquisute student living quarters. however, i don't know the ease of finding anything outside of germany.

atelier 5 have a dorm in stuttgart

dorm @ amsterdam (wesperstraaaaaaaaat), herman hertzberger

erdmann hall @ bryn mawr, lou kahn

also aalto in espoo

hostel @ paris, le corbusier

and my fave, gropius' bauhaus @ dessau

Jul 19, 05 8:51 pm  · 
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dbroxxy

What kind of school is it? Where is it located?

Jul 20, 05 5:54 am  · 
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a-f

Low cost? A very recent student housing project using prefab-units "IFD Box" in central Amsterdam (in Dutch only...): [http://www.ifdbox.com/product.php?item=6]Houthavens[/url]

The lightweight polyester-facade system "Spacebox" has been adapted in Delft and Eindhoven: Spacebox

Jul 20, 05 7:23 am  · 
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a-f
Houthavens

sorry...

Jul 20, 05 7:23 am  · 
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