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BUILDING DESIGN PROPOSAL

Multi-Unit Student Dwellings

Unit Program:

Provide multi-unit student dwellings with at least fifty 2-student suits and 6 resident
assistant suite per building. The total number of students to be housed is 200 students (2 Buildings required). Provide 1 apartment in the student complex for a resident director.

The prototype design for the student units must support the following activities and qualities of experience for:

  • Arrival and entry  to student rooms or suites

  • Cooking and dinning in common areas- breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks; occasional guests (1-6); individual suites can have morning kitchens.

  • Sleeping - single rooms, double rooms and/ or suites with no more than 6 students in a suite.

  • Storage for clothes

  • Toilet and bathing - as compact as possible and organized to reduce competition for the use of the unit.

  • Social and personal intimacy for one, two, or several friends inside and outside.

  • Visitability in at least 10% of all units.

  • Community spaces for gathering, parties, and resident hall meeting.

  • Ability to operate the residential facility as a hotel for conference during the summer.

  • A convenience store to serve all 200 residence.

  • Provide student parking and visitor parking. 
     

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Making physical model helps an architect to explore the potentials of the project as well as possibilities of having different solutions

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