Student housing
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about student housing
Project • By SCB • Student Housing
Tooker House
Tooker House at Arizona State University is a new living/learning community designed to serve freshman engineering students. The seven-story, 458,000-square-foot project includes 1,582 beds for students in semi-suite units, staff apartments, a 525-seat dining hall, a convenience store, numerous dedicated student study and social lounges, and a fitness center. A large maker lab enjoys a prominent and highly visible location on the ground floor of the building, expanding the academic core of the campus and providing residents with space and resources to continue class work and experimental ideas at any time of day. Sliding glass walls allow activities to spill outdoors, where exhibition pedestals enable students to present their work and invi... More
Project • By Fantech • Student Housing
The Quad at York — Phase II
Nestled at the north edge of Toronto is York University. The university has resided in the area since 1959 and now enrolls 53,000 students on average annually, with 300,000 alumni worldwide. York U ranks #4 in Maclean’s Education 2024 standings for “Canada’s Best Comprehensive Universities” slotting just behind Waterloo and ahead of Carleton. For such a prestigious and well-known university, adequate student housing would help this continuing trend of success.
Courtesy of The Quad at York University
As a result, York University opened The Quad at York, a mixed-use building, in 2018. Phase II opened in October of 2022. Phase II of The Quad features many of the same benefits as Phase I. Both are mixed-use facilit... More
News • News • 20 Jul 2023
OODA’s new concrete cylindrical tower reconciles form and function with contemporary needs
In the Portuguese city of Porto, a tall cylindrical tower stands in the midst a large university campus. Designed by architectural studio OODA, Hoso tower is quite distinct from the often generic student accommodation buildings found across cities far and wide.
Fernando Guerra | FG + SG
Fernando Guerra | FG + SG
This recently built project by OODA was born from the desire to “find the ideal formula for optimization and spatial flexibility,” says the studio. The design reconciles form and function with contemporary needs and seeks to address a client’s ambitious goals: “How to design a building that provides optimized and flexible space . . . [that is] suitable for students and young generations, wh... More
Project • By padilla nicás arquitectos • Student Housing
Student housing in Madrid
The Hubr company decided to build their first Spanish hall of residence in the city of Madrid.
In contrast to the typical50s style building and the well-mannered Madrid neighborhood of Salamanca where it is located, the proposal tries to generate a contemporary atmosphere with the idea of connecting with its young residents.
Mariela Apollonio
Thus, continuous pavements, walls and color signage together with exposed facilities in public spaces lead to achieve the purpose. In contrast, the rooms present more conservative materials such as wooden floors, ceramic tiles or plasterboard ceilings.
Mariela Apollonio
The brick facade to the street, as a protected heritage, was to be fully respected preserving its image and, consequently... More
Project • By Mei architects and planners • Student Housing
Sluisbuurt
In Amsterdam East, Mei is designing the first buildings in the development of the Sluisbuurt; a new urban district on the Zeeburgereiland. Commissioned by the DUWO Foundation, Mei will design two unique residential buildings on lot 5A2 and lot 6B2. The buildings will be part of a - for the Netherlands still unprecedented - metropolitan living environment in which high-rise is combined with a lively and dynamic ground level, and meeting and interaction are central. Plot 5A2 and 6B2, which will facilitate housing for students and young people, are located in the heart of the district and will serve as a catalyst for the further development of this green, sustainable neighborhood.
Residential towers full of identityThe residential buildings a... More
News • News • 6 Apr 2023
Design of K33 Student Residences in Thessaloniki driven by strategies for compact living
In Thessaloniki, the design of the new K33 Student Residences by eNJOY architects is driven by site, context, and strategies for compact living.
eNJOY architects
On a plot measuring a mere 68 square meters, the 206 square meter building dedicates half of its footprint to vertical circulation and the remainder to student apartments. The architects explain that the apartments are designed to balance with nomadic nature of student life with the minimum requirements for modern housing. Each unit is approximately 23 – 25 square meters in floor area and includes a kitchen/living room area, a bedroom, a bathroom, and plentiful storage. An expanded sense of space is achieved with an open floor plan and openings of different he... More
Project • By Jackson Clements Burrows Architects • Universities
St Andrew's Hall
St Andrew’s Hall in Parkville is home to a training facility for the Church Missionary Society of Australia (CMS). The Learning Centre and Accommodation Redevelopment project comprises a complete restoration of the original 19th century house and new student accommodation and teaching building.
Responding to the ornate fretwork and detail of St Andrew’s Hall, the development is wrapped in a geometric patterned metalwork screen. This serves as solar control to the northern and western facades, and manages privacy to the development’s northern neighbours.
Overall, the development reflects a considered and respectful approach to the site’s heritage, and will provide the ‘missionaries in training’ a welcomi... More
Project • By Jackson Clements Burrows Architects • Universities
Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity
JCB is Lead Indigenous Architect for the new AFSE space, located in the University of Melbourne's New Student Precinct and embodied with Indigenous ways of knowing and being.
Creating a space for staff and Fellows to live, learn and collaborate, the space will be an engaging, inspiring and creative space for staff and visitors, and a welcoming place for Indigenous and non-Indigenous leaders from Australia, New Zealand and across the Pacific. This will allow Fellows, staff and Elders to gather, collaborate and share knowledge, as they address global issues.
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JCB has been undertaking Indigenous engagement, with values established through a collaborative Engagement Plan, and Indigenous-led design by listening to and being g... More
Project • By MO-OF / Mobile Offices • Universities
V.J.T.I. Student Housing
Concept/Philosophy
Stacked student housing is designed so as to move away from the typical dormitory or hostel typology, which in our opinion fosters a regimented form of social control by use of single loaded corridor organizations. The challenge was to break away from the notion of stacked student housing where there is no exchange between students, owing to the tight site constraints forcing dead vertical development as a common imagination.
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Program and Organization
With an aim to respond to these, a conscious design framework was introduced that facilitated opportunities for an active social and cultural life to flourish. This was done by integrating circulation and sequencing different collective programs wi... More
Project • By MO-OF / Mobile Offices • Masterplans
S.P.A. Vijayawada Student Housing
Concept/Philosophy
Our idea for student group housing stems from an interest in developing inter relationships in which students would participate in a non-hierarchical and rhizomatic nature of exchange. Our approach was to move away from the hermetic dormitory or hostel organizational structure, which fosters a regimented form of social control - a kind of control that restricts learning, living and exchange.
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The attempt is to create organizational variation, non-linearity, change & flexibility through the integration of programs with non-programmatic spaces thereby integrating both the collective and the individual.
MO-OF / Mobile Offices
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Program and Organization
The social and cultural lives o... More
Project • By TECO + partners • Student Housing
Zamboni student housing
The university residence, designed by TECO+partners, is situated in the San Donato zone, near the historical seat of the University of Bologna. It joins a social scenario characterized by changing lifestyles, changing forms of coexistence, where the new living models become an important aspect of students’ education, inserting them in a system of relations and contributing strongly to their social growth.
Fabio Mantovani
The building develops along a much-frequented road and its long side overlooks the street. The shape of the building was strongly conditioned by the Masterplan of the Ex Ferrovia Veneta authority, which defined a highly compact, non-modifiable volume.
Fabio Mantovani
In order to cope with this restriction,... More
Project • By Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners • Libraries
Harvard Undergraduate House Renewal Winthrop House
Winthrop House, comprised of two Neo-Georgian former freshman dormitory buildings from 1913, had undergone few upgrades since its construction. The renewal program re-envisioned Winthrop’s residential, academic, social, and co-curricular spaces and addresses technical challenges, including significant envelope upgrades, the installation of all-new mechanical systems, and detailed restoration work for the House’s signature public spaces. Amidst the sensitive context of Harvard’s River Houses, BBB also designed Robert M. Beren Hall, a distinctive 41-bed addition that includes shared amenities for undergraduates. Working with the House Renewal Project Management Office, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, the Faculty Deans, and s... More
Project • By Jackson Clements Burrows Architects • Universities
La Trobe University North and South Apartments
La Trobe University’s twin building student accommodation development brings 624 new student beds to its eastern residential precinct and forms a key part of an ambitious plan to transform their Bundoora campus into a University City of the Future.
John Gollings
The buildings form two sweeping arcs, creating strong edges to the campus ‘street’ network and a large central ‘private’ courtyard space. A transparent glazed curtain wall for communal spaces and continuous perimeter seating create pedestrian scale and encourage students to informally sit, gather and engage with the buildings and broader street context.
Peter Clarke
Peter Clarke
While creating a warm and human-centric solution, this pro... More
Project • By Álvarez-Díaz & Villalón • Universities
UPR Mayagüez Campus Student Life
The Student Life project includes the construction of the new living spaces for students, passive outdoor areas for common use, access to the existing street, and the corresponding infrastructure. The proposed new building will have six floors and approximately 182,810 square feet to accommodate the program, projected to have the capacity for 552 students with different types of bedrooms, including single, double and quadruple rooms.
The building’s functionality and aesthetics will strategically respond to the surrounding areas activities, from pedestrian activity within the campus, down to the interactions between the students and the community. The Student Life Project’s objective is to become an example of student residentia... More
Project • By Cascadia Windows & Doors • Student Housing
Origin Residence at SFU
Winner of two Ovation Awards, the Origin Residence are part of Simon Fraser University's UniverCity community in Burnaby. More