Historically, student housing has taken the distinctive architectural form of green quadrangles defined by low-rise buildings. This planning strategy is still valid, as students continue to seek a sense of community along with landscaped open spaces. The site plan directly expresses this tradition with three-story buildings framimg two courtyards that open to the south, imparting to the complex a sense of privacy and community.
A centrally located gateway building houses the laundry, mailroom, and management offices, and serves as a stop for the campus shuttle bus.
Along South Prospect Street, the buildings are smaller to relate to the scale of the residential neighborhood. The larger buildings facing the university respond to the scale of the adjacent residence halls. Rooflines, massing, and materials recall the older architecture of the adjacent Redstone Campus buildings. Gable roofs, sheathed in slate-colored asphalt shingles, articulate the individual buildings and evoke familiar images of a small village.
A mixture of one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom units in flat and duplex configurations provides a total of 81-units and 200 bedrooms.
