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December 06, 2007, 09:29 AM ET
Finalists Chosen for Second Round of Campus-Housing Competition
Jonathan Levi Architects won the first round of a competition to create the residence hall of the future with this room design.
Finalists were announced Wednesday in the second round of a competition to design an ideal college residence hall for the decades ahead. The three-round, three-year competition, called the 21st Century Project, is sponsored by the Association of College and University Housing Officers-International.
The first round, completed in January, focused on the smallest element of a residence complex, the room. Many of the architects and housing administrators who submitted entries envisioned rooms that were modular to some degree — either because furniture units could be easily replaced as needs changed or because the rooms could be manufactured elsewhere, trucked to a campus, and then stacked to form a building (The Chronicle, January 29). The first-round winner was Jonathan Levi of Jonathan Levi Architects, in Boston.
The second round of the competition centers on how to bring rooms together into functioning communities, referred to as “blocks” and “neighborhoods” in competition materials. The materials define blocks as housing 30 to 32 students, and neigborhoods as having 150 to 160 residents.
The winning entry will be chosen February 1. The five finalists are:
- Ayers/Saint/Gross Architects + Planners, based in Baltimore.
- Little Diversified Architectural Consulting, based in Charlotte, N.C.
- MGA Partners, Architects, based in Philadelphia.
- Net+work+camp+us, a team of architects whose members include recent architecture-school graduates as well as members of long-established firms.
- Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and Mackey Mitchell Architects, based in St. Louis, a team that brings students and housing officials from the university together with architects from Mackey Mitchell.
The third round of the competition will focus on combining the blocks and neighborhoods into larger communities. The competition’s organizers hope eventually to construct a sample residence hall on a campus yet to be selected.
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