Breathing new life into a hidden service court

Cost-efficient screening uplifts the existing hidden façade

First large-scale green roof in the Northeast makes a ‘found’ quad

Ascending to the academic courtyard

Steel detail precision: design & execution

Study space visibility activated by stair traffic

Studio with kitchen which is both open & contained

Innovative double studio dining/study/social alcove

Graduate student room meant for study & socializing

Sample Description

Graduate student residential life for the 21st century

Graduate Housing

The President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA

The total gut reconstruction of 29 Garden Street reconfigures a former hotel building to provide an up-to-date multi-function ‘graduate house’ in a prime location with convenient pedestrian access to key campus locations - adding 75 units and 143 beds to Harvard University’s housing portfolio. Accessed from a new monumental archway, the turnkey-delivered green roof forms an outdoor meeting place and retreat for the building’s occupants. A variety of unit types, new to the University portfolio, where introduced including two types of ‘double studios’ and imbedded faculty housing. Heating/cooling valences are employed to deliver silent, draft-free, energy efficient conditioning.

Size: 114,000 gsf

Recognition

2008 Award for Design Excellence – Honor Award AIA/Boston Society for Architecture
2008 Honor Award for Design Excellence in Housing AIA/Boston Society for Architecture and AIA New York Chapter
2007 Honor Award American Society of Landscape Architects
2005 Award for Excellence in Architecture – Honor Award AIA/New England
Architectural Record December 2004
Architecture Boston March/April 2005

New Plan Types for Harvard's Residential Portfolio

Large double suite or 1 bedroom

Double studio or 1 bedroom

Resident faculty 3 bedroom unit