Kumin completed a $29M development for the UAA campus, including three resident halls and a central dining facility. Each of the resident halls is 60,000 SF on four floors, containing a mix of single, double, and four-person suites, a resident hall director’s apartment, lounges, laundry, computer lab, and auxiliary spaces. The larger suites have four single bedrooms, two baths, a common living room, entry and storage. The resident halls are the first suite style dormitories at UAA. It was important to provide housing options for the growing UAA campus. The design also provides options for focus group ‘houses.’ A total of 556 students can be housed in the three facilities. 

The dining hall with 24,000 SF includes dining rooms for 300, administrative offices, an exercise room, conference room, mail room, a convenience shop, serving lines, and a full commercial kitchen. The project includes complete site masterplanning and site design with new roads, pedestrian trails and pathways, parking lots, landscaping, exterior patios, a creek crossing and utility extensions. The masterplan identifies locations for two additional residence halls and a Common. The first phase of the project included road and trail construction, utility extensions and building pads. Building construction was then completed along with a site amenities improvement package.

Recipient of 1999 Celebration of Anchorage Honor Award; 1999 “Excellence in Construction Architecture Award” by Associated General Contractors of Alaska