Student housing
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about student housing
Project • By Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia • Offices
Connected project of Grand Paris Express, Creteil-l'Echat station
Nowadays, the contemporary city is built up with additions, fragments, parts of a all that gradually act on the whole place and little by little transform it. The setting up of infrastructures, and the localization of the strategical functions resulting from them, have a leading role in this metamorphosis. The Grand Paris produces these actions at two different and complementary scales: territorial and urban. Thus, the Grand Paris stations are personifying the new forms of a refounded urbanity that is based on the re-organization of the mobilities, the diversity of uses and programs, the reconquest of a green, welcoming and comfortable public space, the creation of an emblematic architecture. The issue is to encourage architectural and urba... More
Project • By C.F. Møller Architects • Student Housing
Student Housing for the University of Southern Denmark
The design of the new student housing for the University of Southern Denmark in Odense is based on a strong community spirit. The 250 student residences are located in three interconnected 15-storey buildings. This means that the residence has no front or back, but appears attractive from a 360-degree perspective. The building's distinctive shape will make it easily recognizable on the campus, and clearly advertises its distinct residential content.
The project constitutes a link between the 1966 linear university campus and the new Cortex Park, a Research and Knowledge Park designed by C.F. Møller in 2009 as a more irregular and dense urban cluster. The university’s clear structure is also an inspiration for the student residence: with... More
Traumhaus redefine affordable suburban housing
MVRDV, in partnership with housing developers Traumhaus, offer a response to the current state of modern day suburbia and the village as part of the redevelopment of former US Army barracks in Mannheim, Germany. MVRDV won the competition for the 27.000m2 residential project, which breaks apart the standard housing model and redefines suburban living through giving residents the affordable suburban lifestyle, with individuality, diversity and community spirit. A huge range of variations on the Traumhaus standard typology will be distributed throughout the site encouraging social diversity as well as a lively mix of different life styles. In between the houses, the park dissipates through the site in a series of path networks, broken up by sp... More
Project • By rue royale architectes • Secondary Schools
Rooms with a view
Rooms with a view", evokes not only the film of the same name, but also the magic of a domestic, landscaped setting. It is in this poetic, yet functional, spirit that the architects imagined their project for the LEGTA (Agricultural Technological and General High School) boarding house in Saint-Genis Laval.The need to comply with very stringent energy standards (BEPAS ) increased the complexity of the project’s starting point which was to provide an appropriate architectural solution for an imposing programme, which would fit into an agricultural landscape and organise the relationship with the existing buildings.A co-educational 96-bed boarding house with communal areas (common room, study rooms and staff housing) in addition to the teachi... More
Project • By Schmidt Hammer Lassen architects • Universities
New educational facility at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects is part of the winning SPARK consortium to design the new 22,310 m2 educational facility for the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht in the Netherlands. The new building will house seven institutes as well as university facilities. It will be located on the campus amongst world-known architectural building designs by OMA, UN Studio, Wiel Arets and Mecanoo. The new educational facility completes the existing ‘Kasbah’ master plan and will provide space for over 6,500 students, staff and visitors. It forms a strong and clear mark on the site, where it will activate and support the dynamic life on the campus.
The new educational facility will offer two large 200+ seat auditoriums, two smaller auditoriums,... More
Project • By WRK Architecten BV • Student Housing
Transformation of an office building to student housing
November 3rd 2015 the former office building is officially re-opened. By then all 285 students already moved in, a great addition for the liveliness of the neighborhood in Amsterdam East. The ground floor is being developed by Hostelle, a hostel concept for women.
The office building, completed in 1964, was designed by W.M. Dudok. The eleven story high building includes 12.000m2 office space, meeting rooms, a canteen and an underground bicycle parking. The façades have an homogenous appearance with an exception at the east facade, which expresses the front of the building. The office building had been vacant for several years when in 2012 the municipality decided to appoint the building with the function student housing. This action not... More
Project • By VIB Architecture | ballus & vialet • Nurseries
STUDENT HOUSING AND NURSERY
On 117 rue de Ménilmontant in one of Paris’s busy northern neighborhoods, VIB Architecture took possession of a long and narrow plot to construct and rehabilitate several buildings for a mixed-use program: a residence with 89 student housing and a nursery for 66 children.
The faubourg of Belleville, located on one of the two main hills of Paris, is characterized by its heterogeneous architecture, with buildings from various times, with different heights and various programs. One of them is the “Pavillon du Carré Baudouin” built in the XVIIIth century as a place of pleasure and leisure, which is now an exhibition space attached to a small park open to the public. There are also an old orphanage, some Haussman buildings or small houses an... More
Project • By Sehw Architektur • Universities
Campus der TH Wildau
Southeast of Berlin, on the grounds of what was once the largest in Europe with locomotive plant historic structures located the campus of the Technical University of Wildau. This was now in the biggest university construction projects in recent years in the country of Brandenburg SEHW architecture extended to three buildings. Vorrausgegangen 2006 was a limited Competition, from the SEHW architecture, BDA emerged as winners were.
The competition comprised besides the urban design, planning and realization an available building (for courses Biosystems / bioinformatics, European Management, logistics, aeronautical engineering / aeronautical logistics, telematics and industrial engineering), an auditorium and a center for student housing 20... More
Project • By Acton Ostry Architects • Student Housing
Brock Commons Tallwood House
World’s Tallest Mass Timber TowerAt 18 storeys and 53 meters in height, Brock Commons Tallwood House is a 404-bed student residence building located on The University of British Columbia Point Grey campus in Vancouver, BC, Canada that officially opened for students in July of 2017. The project is the first completed in Canada under the 2013 Tall Wood Building Demonstration Project Initiative sponsored by Natural Resources Canada. Brock Commons aspires to be a model for a future that features extraordinarily ordinary mass wood buildings that are quick, clean and cost effective to construct and which maximize carbon sequestering and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in cities.Extraordinary for its height—which makes Brock Commons the worl... More
Project • By Grafton Architects • Universities
Medical School, Student Residences and Bus Shelter at the University of Limerick
The University of Limerick, in the South West of Ireland occupies a large territory, formerly a Demesne, and is situated on both sides of the lower reaches of the river Shannon, the longest and largest river in Ireland. Part of its most recent expansion to the north of this great river, accessible by pedestrian bridge from the existing campus, provides for the construction of a new medical school building and accommodation buildings for students attending the facility. These new buildings are also intended to address a large public open space which will ultimately become the focal point for this expansion of the campus to the North.
The aspiration is to combine faculty buildings and residences in a manner which encourages overlap and con... More
Project • By PETITDIDIERPRIOUX architects • Apartments
338 HOUSING UNITS, PARIS XIX
Three programmes (student housing, investment properties and home ownership units), and a single building imposing peacefulness and structuring the district: these were the challenges facing this project. The project generates contacts with the 104 cultural centre through a large porch that continues through to the Orgues de Flandres housing complex. Each street is lined by two buildings that are organised around an open garden to the rear of the tower block side. The building adopts a compact language underlined by strong horizontal lines that also provide generously sized balconies. Around the garden, the façade is designed as a fold giving distant views over Paris. More
Project • By KPMB Architects • Student Housing
University of British Columbia: Ponderosa Commons
A two-phase project, Ponderosa Commons mixed-use program includes a residence, Student Housing & Hospitality Services (SHHS) admin offices, child care, café, fitness facility, end of trip facilities, a commuter student collegium, informal learning spaces as well as studio, class and office space for Fine Arts (Phase 1, Audain Art Centre) and the Faculty of Education (Phase 2).
Ponderosa Commons brings together a mix of social, academic and administrative activities and serves a critical place-making role as a secondary gateway to the campus.
Ponderosa Commons is a prototype for the first in a series of five, concentrated mixed-use developments on the UBC campus to create 24/7 centres. It is also specifically designed to contribute to... More
Project • By LCR ARCHITECTES • Universities
ACADEMY OF ART CRAFTS (ESMA)
The campus includes the Academy of Art Crafts (ESMA), the Technical Academy of Photography and Game Design (ETPA) and a student housing (182 units). It is located in Auzeville-Tolosane, 15 minutes from the centre of Toulouse.
The school, overlaid with two levels of parking (55 spaces reserved for school and 60 for the residence), offers facades that affirm their identity on different orientations. The facade, randomly double laced in a vertical rhythm, gives a depth and lightness to the whole process while allowing the necessary sun protection to the various rooms. Facades create a graphic effect sustained by projected shadows and a colored highlighting. More
Project • By Kjellander Sjöberg • Housing
Living on the Wedge
The future of student housing in Lund
The university, the municipality and Akademiska Hus are joining forces in a collaborative joint venture that will provide 1000-2000 new dwellings in Lund. The purpose is to literally build away the housing shortage for students by 2020. Kjellander + Sjöberg has along with Akademiska Hus made initial volumetric design proposals for approximately 500 of these student housing units. The proposal's point of departure is to strengthen and improve local connections and movement paths through the area as well as generating a vibrant, integrated urban environment that is active throughout the day. More
Project • By a154 architects • Private Houses
Backstay hostel
THE ASSIGNMENT
The construction of student housing and redevelopment of a protected interbellum period building in order to create a hostel.
THE LOCATION
The construction site is located in the heart of Ghent's student neighborhood. The area is demarcated by rear facades and the gardens belonging to surrounding buildings. The only access to this inner area is along the street called 'Sint Pietersnieuwstraat'. This entrance is characterized, in particular, by the office building ‘Het Licht’ (the light), erected in 1930, drawn by architects Fernand and Maxime Brunfaut. An 18th century building stands next to this light-giving city beacon and it too needs to be preserved and restored.
THE CONCEPT
Master Plan
The former buildings of t... More