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Page is a powerfully imaginative and collaborative architecture and engineering firm: one that’s ready for today and designed for what comes next. We pair form with function, reason with emotion, and ideas with expert implementation. At Page, the potential of what’s possible is paired with the practicality of how to make it happen. Our purpose is designing places smarter, while improving the experiences of those who work, live, and learn in them. From thought to finish, Page experts—of all disciplines—see the big picture, figure the best way forward, and deliver solutions in inventive and amazing ways. Imagine that.

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Expertise Student Life

SERVICES PROVIDED

Academic Planning & Programming

Analytics / Data

Building Sciences

Campus Planning

Commissioning

Historic Preservation

Innovation District Planning

Interior Design

IT / Security

Lab Planning

Landscape Architecture

MEP / Fire Protection Engineering

Modernization / Renovations

Structural Engineering

Wayfinding / Signage / Branding

Page designers have been designing award-winning university and multifamily residential projects for decades, including houses, mixeduse residential properties and the renovations of historic buildings into residences, as well as student life facilities ranging from student recreation centers, student unions and dining halls to conference and event / venue facilities.

Long a leader in the creation of distinctive hospitality design, from campus housing to multifamily and mixed-use urban apartment dwellings, Page has successfully balanced owner’s strict budget requirements with truly innovative and award-winning design.

Since 2011, we have programmed, master planned, and designed more than 75,000 beds of student housing in residence hall living / learning communities.

Student Residence Halls and Dining Halls are facilities that students are guaranteed to enter. As such, they need to welcome the widest diversity of the college community. Once inside, services, activities, and possible interactions should be clearly visible, inviting, and accessible to all. Successful student life facilities are more than the sum of their parts. Thoughtful placement of synergistic activities and services creates lively environments where students easily move from one activity to another. One of the primary design tasks is to see how each piece can reinforce the other.

Our experience designing student life buildings, combined with our consensus building approach, has been successful in creating facilities that bring together students, faculty, and staff in exciting, interactive, light-filled, and environmentally responsive spaces. Working together with the students and staff, we design solutions that are unique to your setting, campus culture, climate, and architectural context. Our collaborative approach ultimately leads to buildings and interior environments reflective of the individual character of each campus.

75,000+

student housing beds planned & designed

While some students like to study in their living unit, many other students find it easier to focus in more social environments such as community lounges, coffee shops, or cafeterias.

A balance of private and public space is important.

Pennsylvania State University Robinson Hall University Park, Pennsylvania

Colorado School of Mines Elm Street Residence and Dining Hall Golden, Colorado

Student Life Experience

HOUSING AND DINING

Boston College

Stayer Residence Hall

322 beds

Boston College

Thomas More Apartments 490 beds

Bucknell University

Student Housing Complex

336 beds

College of Saint Rose Centennial Hall 225 beds

Colorado School of Mines Elm Street Residence Hall and Dining Hall 210 beds 600 seats

Colorado State University at Pueblo Culebra & Greenhorn Residence Halls 751 beds

Duke University Wannamaker Quad 230 beds

Fairfield University

Student Housing

200 beds

Framingham State University Residence Hall

409 beds

George Washington University West Hall 292 beds

Georgetown University

Southwest Quad 780 beds 1,300 seats

Hood College Blazer Hall

201 beds

Howard University Bethune Dining Hall

250 seats

Marshall University

Harless Dining Hall 340 seats

Michigan State University

Phillips-Snyder Halls

660 beds

Pace University

Residential Quad 780 beds 200 seats

Penn State University

Robinson Hall 310 beds

Princeton University

Madison, Hamilton, and Holder Halls

500 beds

Princeton University

Whitman Residential College 500 beds

St. Edwards University

Hunt and Le Mans Refresh Teresa Hall & East Hall Refresh 300 beds

St. John’s University

Residential Quad and Dining Facility 1,207 beds 630 seats

Stetson University Residence Hall 300 beds

The University of Texas at Austin 2400 Nueces Student Housing 614 beds

The University of Texas at Austin St. Austin Parrish School and Student Housing 650 beds

Trinity College

Crescent Townhomes 600 beds

University at Albany Colonial Quad 175 beds

University of Akron Exchange Street Apartment-style Housing 650 beds

University of Akron Honors Program Residence Hall

300 beds

University of Akron

Multiplex Housing 460 beds

University of California Davis Tercero Student Housing

Master Plan 2,150 beds

University of California

Merced 2020 Student

Housing Community 1,700 beds

University of Colorado

Colorado Springs Village at Alpine Valley Housing and Dining 510 beds 450 seats

University of Houston Cougar Place Housing and Dining Hall

800 beds 600 seats

University of Houston Quad Replacement Housing 1,200 beds

University of Michigan North Quad 460 beds

University of Nevada Great Basin Residence Hall 434 beds

University of Virginia Gibbons House 200 beds

Wayne State University

New Residence Hall 837 beds

Wichita State University

Shocker Residence and Dining Hall

780 beds 400 seats

Space Types

Housing

Student Centers Health and Wellness

Dining Halls

Recreation

What Do You Think?

Inspiring the Pursuit of

Curiosity

We’re curious, so we ask questions – bold, messy, sometimes outrageous questions – because we want to partner with you to discover solutions. When the right questions are matched with the right expertise, we can accomplish amazing things like connecting community, next-gen learning, long life / loose fit, agile collaborations, timeless relationships, empowering engagement, blurred boundaries, creative stewardship.

What are you thinking about?

Let’s explore that together.

Academic Sector Team

John Baxter aia, leed ap Principal / Academic Sector Leader jbaxter@pagethink.com

Sara G. Stein aia, leed ap bd+c Principal / Project Campus Planner sstein@pagethink.com

Mark Warner aia, leed ap bd+c Principal / Design Director mwarner@pagethink.com

Talmadge Smith leed ap Principal / Design Director tsmith@pagethink.com

Jacob Higginbottom aia, leed ap, cphc Associate Principal / Project Director jhigginbottom@pagethink.com

Farshid Motian leed Ga Associate / Planner fmotian@pagethink.com

Kara Rowland aia, leed Ga Associate / Project Manager krowland@pagethink.com

Project Details

Project Size

243,000 Square Feet

Services Provided Programming / Planning / Architectural Design / MEP Engineering / Telecommunications / Energy Analysis

Program Features

§ 490 Beds

§ Unit Types: Apartment, 4- and 6-person

Boston College Thomas More Apartments Boston, Massachusetts

To meet the growing demand for on-campus student housing, Boston College selected a site for a new apartment-style residence hall on beautiful Commonwealth Avenue.

Thomas More Apartments provides 243,000 square feet of housing for 490 students in a combination of four and six-person apartments. The residence hall also includes student lounges, group studies, common rooms, and apartments for resident faculty or ministers, as well as a 12,000 square feet Health Services Department.

Page’s design for the building responds in massing and character to adjacent college buildings. The primary design challenge was to create a building that met the competing aspirations of the College and the City of Boston. Located on Commonwealth Avenue, the major artery between downtown Boston and the BC campus, the College very much wanted the building to act as a symbolic gateway to the campus. The City of Boston asked that it be physically open to the public as a pedestrian entry to campus. The scale and openness of the courtyard’s greenspace allows it to be identified as both belonging to the College community and Boston as a whole.

The design team spearheaded the public review process, building consensus among multiple interested community groups, achieving BRA approval in 2013.

Project Details

Project Size

383,000 Square Feet

Services Provided Architecture / Civil Engineering / Landscape Architecture / Technology, Security, and AV / Structural Engineering / MEP Engineering / Wayfinding / Signage / Furniture Selection

Program Features

§ 1,200 Beds

§ Unit Types: Traditional, singleoccupancy, Townhouses

University of Houston The Quad Houston, Texas

Replacing student housing doesn’t have to mean erasing history. The 1950s beloved quadrangle housing was no longer serving the students. So, the University of Houston partnered with Page to discover what’s possible for a new housing development that would better serve its growing student population.

The new 1200-bed student housing development features a traditional residence hall with single-occupancy rooms with shared living spaces and a series of conjoined townhouses. As a nod to the original quadrangle housing, the buildings wrap around enclosed courtyards giving students a sense of community and room for study and play. Connected by bridges, The Quad creates intimate spaces for learning and sharing across all buildings.

The townhouses directly across from the main entrance to The Quad support UH’s goal to recruit more international students to the Tier One institution. Within each three-story walk-up, you can find a community of up to 18 students sharing recipes in their full kitchen or exchanging stories from back home in the large living space.

Project Details

Project Size

200,600 Square Feet

Services Provided Programming / Planning / Architecture / MEP Engineering / Structural Engineering

Program Features

§ 742 Beds

§ Unit Types: Apartments

Bucknell University Residential Quad and Dining Lewisburg, Pennsylvania

Page developed a master plan for this site to support 742 beds to support apartments, suites, and affinity housing plus a new common building. This put the hilly 50-acre site to higher use, strengthening connections between this semi-rural site and the adjacent main Bucknell campus. Through disciplined study of historic information, and collaboration and consensus building with the school’s Project Action Committee, our design team developed a longterm strategic framework to guide the design of this important new campus precinct while preserving the integrity of the historic campus fabric well into the future. Careful consideration of exterior space design allows residents of the newly created neighborhoods to enjoy outdoor recreation with some physical separation, while still promoting cohesion among the larger student body.

The initial four residence halls include apartments of varying sizes and configurations. As this new campus site is a bit off the main campus core, buildings 1, 2, and 3 house senior students, and building 4 includes both junior and senior students. Each hall houses a themed lounge on the first floor for use by all residents. Building 1 includes a high-tech creative workspace equipped with prototyping equipment and whiteboards and projectors. Building 2 includes a light fitness center focused on wellness and recreation. Building 3 has a social game room that provides a large-screen TV, table tennis, and foosball tables. Lastly, building 4 is focused on quiet study space with a variety of flexible furniture.

The neighboring MacDonald Commons features the Commons Café, a convenience store, pool tables, lounge areas, and student-run programming that students in this residential community and from across campus can utilize. Together, this is truly a student-life village that provides on-campus housing for students as they are on their progression towards independent living.

Project Details

Project Size

255,000 Square Feet

Services Provided Programming / Master Planning / Architecture / Interior Design / Sustainability / LEED & Energy

Material Consulting

Program Features

§ 751 Beds

§ Unit Types: Suites, singleand double-occupancy

Colorado State University

Pueblo Student Housing Village Pueblo, Colorado

Based on a precinct micro-master plan for the north campus, the Student Housing Village provides a total of 753 beds in three residence halls in two phases, Crestone Residence Hall being the first. The housing village forms a central green (the Oval) that serves as entry way for residents and guests, and two quadrangles, providing informal gathering spaces and framing views to Pikes Peak and the San Juan Ranges.

Each Residence Hall is comprised of a variety of 2 + 2 shared bedroom, 1 + 1 private bedroom, 2 bedroom / 1 bath and private suites, as well as Hall Director’s apartment. The living / learning commons has a great room, multimedia classroom, computer lab, warming kitchen, central laundry, vending, mail conference / meeting room, control desk, and administrative offices. Both north and south house wings enjoy their own study lounge at every floor creating intimate group dynamics within the community. The project goals include: fostering a sense of community, creating a safe environment, integrating indoor and outdoor spaces, presenting living and learning opportunities, and providing residents with technology unavailable off campus.

Project Details

Project Size

127,000 Square Feet

Services Provided Programming / Planning / Architecture /

Program Features

§ 409 Beds

§ Unit Types: Suites and Semi-Suites style

Framingham State University Residence Hall

Framingham, Massachusetts

Framingham State University’s new residential hall creates a new campus gateway on Route 9. Working with the Massachusetts State College Building Authority (MSCBA) and Framingham State University, Page teamed with Pfeufer Richardson Architects and Consigli Construction to design North Hall, a 409-bed facility that houses primarily sophomores and juniors in suite-style units.

The design locates the building’s portal at the confluence of existing view axes and uses glazed elements to denote public spaces. To support student development and encourage community, floors are divided into two neighborhoods of suites which connect via two-story Portal Lounges. Additional social spaces are located at each of the building’s ends and in a third-floor commons.

To advance the University’s commitment to sustainability, the project incorporated energy-saving elements such as closed-loop ground-source heat pump, heat recovery wheel, and storm-water reclamation for irrigation.

Project Details

Project Size

90,000 Square Feet

Services Provided Programming / Architecture / Structural Engineering / Landscape Architecture / MEP Engineering / Fire Protection Engineering / IT/Telecom

Program Features

§ 305 Beds

§ Unit Types: Traditional, singleand double-occupancy Semi-Suites, singleand double-occupancy

Stetson University New Residence Hall

DeLand, Florida

Living on campus is an integral part of the undergraduate liberal arts education of Stetson University. The June 2023 Page Housing Master Plan identified bringing the vast majority of the first-year students to the core of campus as a top priority. Positioning a site at the heart of the campus eliminates the need for many students to cross a main road as they move between their residence, the academic core, and the neighboring Carlton Student Union Building.

The introduction of this New Residence Hall marks the initial phase of realizing the Housing Master Plan, aiming to deliver a competitive residence facility tailored to the preferences of current and future students. Incorporating valuable input gathered during the master plan process, the new hall addresses current deficiencies in campus housing, with a particular focus on enhancing the community-building living experience for first- and second-year students.

This investment addresses shortcomings while enriching student life with diverse spaces, including a commons, outdoor living areas, and a courtyard. The residence hall is designed with various student engagement spaces, featuring studies on each wing for small group work and quiet study, as well as floor lounges for socializing. Common spaces are intentionally situated adjacent to the vertical building cores, fostering opportunities for social interaction as students traverse between floors. One wing will include traditional units with a series of private hall baths and one wing will be comprised of semi-suite units with compartmentalized bath and shower rooms within the student unit.

Project Details

Project Size

62,724 Square Feet

Services Provided Architecture / Civil Engineering / Landscape Architecture / Technology, Security, and AV / Structural Engineering / MEP Engineering / Wayfinding / Signage / Furniture Selection

Program Features

§ 201 Beds

§ Unit Types: Suites, singleand double-occupancy

Hood College Blazer Hall Frederick, Maryland

Blazer Hall provides attractive living space for students entering as freshman and living on campus at least through their third year, as required by the college to increase student engagement and success. The new facilities enhance the undergraduate experience, recognizing students’ changing needs for living and learning as they mature and grow.

The building is comprised of shared suites and single suites, along with a ground floor common space, classrooms, and faculty space. The three typical floors feature a main floor lounge and group study spaces with adjacent printing stations to support group study.

In addition, the building includes multiple community spaces for social activities and group studying, including floor lounges, a multipurpose events room, a common kitchen area, central laundry facilities, and a staff apartment. A new honors program space including office and seminar room is provided on the first floor.

Project Details

Project Size

380,000 Square Feet

Services Provided Programming / Planning / Architecture / MEP Engineering / Energy Analysis

Program Features

§ 760 Beds

§ Unit Types: Suites, doubleoccupancy, Semi-Suites, double-occupancy

Pace University New Student Life District and Kessell Student Center

Pleasantville, New York

The complete redesign of Pace’s 200-acre Pleasantville campus transforms the topographically rural landscape of the formerly commuter University into a 21st century residential campus, strengthening the sense of place to enhance student recruitment and retention. Indoor and outdoor spaces merge whenever possible, connecting buildings to nature in alignment with Pace’s institutional history of environmental conservation. Our programming, planning and complete design services reinvent the Pleasantville campus with a comprehensive redevelopment Master Plan that is financially feasible, tuition neutral, buildable, while meeting institutional, town and local code requirements for approval.

The student-focused, pedestrian-friendly redesign resolves the issues presented by the University’s decision to close its Briarcliff campus, consolidating all operations onto the expanded Pleasantville campus. The Master Plan includes two phases, the first of which creates a new campus core – a major central green space that will serve as the new heart of the campus, reducing vehicular circulation, encouraging serendipitous interaction among students and faculty as they cross campus, and providing a unified focal point for the surrounding buildings.

Project Details

Project Size

211,210 Square Feet

Services Provided Programming / Architecture / Site

Design Master Planning / Interiors / Engineering / Food Service Consulting / FF&E

Program Features

§ 510 Beds

§ Unit Types: Suites, singleoccupancy (2, 3, and 4 beds)

University of Colorado Colorado Springs Village at Alpine Valley and Roaring Fork Dining Facility

Colorado Springs, Colorado

The project goal was to create a new social hub that will provide daily student services and successfully host the full range of events planned for the Village at Alpine Valley. The Roaring Fork dining center anchors a new North Campus Neighborhood that allows includes a recreation center expansion, a new 1,300car parking garage / soccer field, an existing three-building housing complex to the east, and the three new residence halls designed with multi-use classrooms and a student services component.

The dining hall serves the catering needs for the whole campus and features multiple venues, a retail space, and a large multipurpose room, in addition to the dining and kitchen areas. The 36,269 SF facility serves approximately 450 patrons with plans for future expansion to the dining seating areas and kitchen server. Dining options include an all-you-care-to-eat program in a hybrid-type dispersed marketplace / corralled concept with a scratch bakery, full catering kitchen, an exhibition-oriented venue, and a multi-purpose event conference venue and rental facility.

Phase One was completed in August 2015 and delivered 260 beds and the dining facility. Phase Two was completed on August 15, 2016 and included the remaining 250 beds of student housing.

Project Details

Project Size

243,000 Square Feet

Services Provided Programming / Planning / Architecture / MEP Engineering / Telecommunications / Energy Analysis

Program Features

§ 310 Beds

§ Unit Types: Traditional, double-occupancy

Pennsylvania State University

Robinson Residence Hall

University Park, Pennsylvania

Page and Irwin & Leighton Construction provided Design/Build services for a new five-story, 310-bed residence hall within Penn State’s North Halls residential precinct. In addition to four existing 1960s residence halls, the new building will relate to neighboring academic buildings housing Visual Arts, Architecture & Landscape Architecture and Agricultural Engineering. The building is intended to house interest groups comprised of students majoring in the adjacent academic disciplines.

Located in the center of the existing precinct, Robinson Residence Hall has been sited to organize the confluence of campus pedestrian, vehicular and service circulation systems and establish safe routes for each. Half of an existing parking lot has been removed to create a central green space, while the other half has been reoriented to minimize pedestrian and vehicular crossing points. The additional green space will also serve to manage storm water flow by significantly reducing the amount of impervious surface, while the reoriented parking area will include a new rain garden designed to further reduce storm water run-off while providing a visual teaching tool for the neighboring Landscape Architecture department. In addition to framing the new campus green space, the massing of the new building will visually reinforce major pedestrian pathways and view corridors.

Typical residential floors will be comprised primarily of double rooms and wet-core bathrooms – private bathroom areas centrally aggregated within the core of the building. Each floor will also include a large floor lounge and two small study nooks. Ground floor common spaces will include a commons (including kitchen and dining area), laundry room, quiet / meditation room, two music practice rooms, seminar room, large study room and a knowledge commons – an area dedicated to team project work and multi-media collaboration. A staff apartment will anchor one end of the ground floor. .

Project Details

Project Size

93,500 Square Feet

Services Provided Programming / Planning / Architecture / MEP Engineering / Historic Preservation

Program Features

§ 315 Beds

§ Unit Types: Suites, doubleoccupancy, Apartments

Towson University

Newell and Richmond Halls Renovation Towson, Maryland

This LEED Silver high-performance modernization project breathes new life into Newell and Richmond Halls, creating a premiere student housing experience while celebrating Towson’s rich architectural tradition. The connected four-story buildings form an iconic campus cornerstone whose 93,500 square feet houses 315 students.

One addition, sympathetic to the Jacobean architecture of the University’s original structures, resolve complex accessibility issues and provide study and social spaces for students that foster a sense of community. The renovation maximizes student common areas and daylight on each floor, building student community. Further social space was added outside to improve access and security while integrating Newell and Richmond into the campus’s pedestrian network.

Page solved longstanding envelope failures through careful analysis, tracing them to the original design, poor construction materials and practices, ill-conceived additions, and errors in earlier repairs and maintenance. At Richmond Hall, cast stone window heads were selectively replaced and mullions re-detailed to increase their load-bearing capacity. At Newell Hall, the terra cotta window surrounds were similarly improved, and all parapets were removed from the eaves to improve roof drainage, without negative effect on the historic roof-lines that form the eastern face of the campus. Exterior stair towers were removed to expose original facade whose restoration has garnered several prizes.

All work was developed consistent with the State of Maryland, University of Maryland, and Towson University specific design standards.

Project

Details

Project Size

325,000 Square Feet

Services Provided Programming / Master Planning / Architecture / Interiors / MEP Engineering / Sustainability

Program Features

§ 800 Beds

§ 600 Seats

§ Unit Types: Suites

University of Houston Cougar Place Student Housing and Cougar Woods Dining Hall Houston, Texas

With the momentum of the 2006 Campus Framework Master Plan and its vision to increase on campus student housing to 25% of its FTE population, the University of Houston is in the process of redeveloping the West Campus.

With approximately 3,000 beds of new student housing construction in the planning stage, Page has been engaged to program, master plan, and design for a New West Dining Hall seating 600 students and an 800 bed Cougar Place Sophomore Housing Replacement. Both projects are strategically located between their existing Law, Bates, Olberholtzer, Settegast and Taub Residence Halls, east of the Dining Hall, and the sophomore housing complex located west of Cullen Boulevard and south of Cougar stadium. Page’s challenge is to provide the University with a creative solution to attract sophomores back to campus.

Project Details

Project Size

74,600 Square Feet

Services Provided Planning / Programming / Architecture / MEP Engineering / Telecommunications / Energy Analysis

Program Features

§ 200 Beds

§ Unit Types: Traditional, singleand double-occupancy

University of Virginia Gibbons House

Charlottesville, Virginia

The Alderman Road project created three new freshman residence halls to replace outdated 1960s dormitories directly across from Scott Stadium. The first of these buildings, the sustainably designed Gibbons House, offers modern amenities, sustainable features, and fosters a strong sense of community and place. Designed exclusively for first-year students, its 74,600 square feet will include 200 beds, double-hall baths, common rooms on each floor, and group study lounges, as well as an office wing to support UVA’s Housing & Residence Life program. The project will connect the new residence hall to Observatory Hill Dining Hall and five existing residence halls, as well as to future residence halls south along Alderman Road.

The design team analyzed existing conditions of streetscape, topography, landscape, and campus circulation (both service and pedestrian) and tested the impact of different building footprints and heights along Alderman Road relative to the campus planning guidelines developed for the West Grounds. We investigated four primary schemes, each including three or four new residence halls, with regard to scale, relation to the street, character of exterior spaces created, and effectiveness of connecting currently separate residence halls. The chosen scheme sets the planning precedents for the next two or three residence hall projects..

Project Details

Project Size

587,570 Square Feet

Services Provided

Planning / Programming / Architecture / MEP Engineering / Contract Administration

Program Features

§ 622 Beds

§ Unit Types: Studios, Townhomes

The University of Texas at Austin 2400 Nueces Student Housing

Austin, Texas

This award-winning and financially successful in-fill development aspires to create a metropolitan quality of life, appropriate to the scale of the West Campus neighborhood of the UT Austin campus, with the implied quality and responsible ethic of sustainability. 2400 Nueces includes 304 units with 622 rooms, almost 10,000 square feet of academic space on the ground level, including office space for UT’s International Student Offices, and 532 structured parking spaces. Units include a wide range of living configurations including studios, one/two/three/four bedrooms and townhomes in an effort to encourage a diverse population.

This project distinguishes itself in the Austin community, achieving LEED Gold certification and a 4-Star Rating from AEGB. Energy efficient measures exceed standard practices. These include locating and orienting the building to control solar loads; shaping and orienting the building for exposure to prevailing winds, and to induce buoyancy for natural ventilation; designing windows to maximize daylighting and natural ventilation and to minimize south-facing windows without shading; and shaping and planning the interior to enhance daylight and natural air flow distribution.

Awards

§ ENR Texas & Louisiana Best Residential / Hospitality Project

§ Society of American Registered Architects (SARA) Merit Award

§ Student Housing Business Innovator Awards. Best Public Private Partnership on Campus

§ Student Housing Business Innovator Awards. Best New Development on Campus

Project Details

Project Size

324,000 Square Feet

Services Provided Architecture / Consulting / Engineering / Commissioning / Interiors / Planning / Programming / Sustainability

Program Features

§ 764 Beds

§ Unit Types: Suites, singleand double-occupancy

Wichita State University Student Life Pavilion, Residential College, and Dining Hall Wichita, Kansas

As an outgrowth of a major Campus Master Plan Initiative, a renewed emphasis for on-campus student life has become a top priority for Wichita State University’s new President. This initiative includes a major renovation and expansion to the Student Union and new Residential College on the northern edge of campus.

Based on Page’s completion of a Micro Master Plan for the Yale Walk Pedestrian Mall and Perimeter Road north student life quadrant of the main campus, 780 beds of new freshman and upper class honor college housing were planned and constructed in a 298,000 SF residence hall. In addition, WSU integrated a new, 26,000-square-foot on-campus dining hall into the four-building complex. The dining hall accommodates 400 students indoor and another 50 on the patio. The entire project totals approximately 324,000 square feet.

The architecture of the College’s suburban campus is predominantly Georgian. All buildings use the same blend of local brick, cast stone/limestone and gabled roofs. The College charged Page with designing a complex with a fresh, forward-thinking interpretation of the campus core of Georgian architecture aesthetics. The dramatic interior departs from the careful design of the exterior. Features include: multiple dining venues with fresh farm to table produce; a late night grill/pizza heath/deli combination; a retail C-store; recreation and game rooms; lounges; offices; the Honors College/Dean’s suite; and multi-purpose classrooms/conference center.

Project Details

Project Size

23,000 Square Feet

Services Provided Architecture / Structural Engineering / Signage / Project Management / Construction Administration

College of William & Mary Tyler McLeod Wellness Center Williamsburg, Virginia

The McLeod Tyler Wellness Center houses the Office of Health Promotion, Counseling Center, Campus Recreation’s Wellness programming and the Center for Mindfulness and Authentic Excellence. The goal of this facility is to inspire students to take accountability for their health by actively seeking activities and methods that invigorate the mind and body. The McLeod Tyler Wellness Center impacts the student-life experience by providing the resources necessary for students to establish a foundation of life-long wholesome living.

The Wellness Center is a safe, inviting and modern addition to a campus traditionally influenced by Georgian architecture. Our design incorporates brick and natural stone to complement its neighboring buildings and pay homage to the college’s roots. The facility resides in nature and is accompanied by a naturally flowing stream of water. Warm light floods into the space byway of expansive glazing and sections of curtainwall that provide a contemporary finish and peak into indoor activities.

Project Details

Project Size

302,000 Square Feet

Services Provided

Program Verification / Architecture/

Interior Design / Furniture Selection

University of Houston

Student Center Transformation

Houston, Texas

Earning Tier 1 research status is a game changer! For the University of Houston, this recognition meant access to better funding sources, attractiveness to nationally recognized faculty and staff, and increased enrollment of highly competitive students.

But how do you serve the best and brightest with an outdated student center where all the services are buried in the basement? It was time for the Student Center to reflect the University’s new status.

Today, the Student Center serves the most important members of the UH community – the students. With early buy-in from the student government, the modernization of the original 1960s University Center was an active design process with constant input from the students.

The Team traded the Brutalist concrete facade for expansive glass windows and an open floor plan where you bump into student services around every turn. Study spaces float above the main central stair where the heart of campus glows in Cougar Nation’s best and brightest red. Here you’ll find students studying, catching up with friends between classes, or preparing for that next big presentation.

Standing front and center, the new student services space is hard to miss, whether you’re making your way down to the bowling alley or grabbing your favorite go-to meal in the food court. Follow the buttery smell of fresh popcorn to the 450-seat theater downstairs. After a long day of studying in the newly renovated Student Center, it’s time to sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.

All in, the Student Center is open, bright, and engaging. It’s the perfect showcase of student pride and school spirit.

Project Details

Project Size

24,350 Square Feet

9,500 Square Feet (New)

14,850 (Modernization)

Services Provided

Programming / Planning / Architecture / MEP Engineering / Structural Engineering

Program Features

§ 570 Seats

Howard University Bethune Dining Hall

Washington, DC

The creative sustainable design of Bethune Dining Hall transforms the round, two-story structure into a vibrant signature structure – a gathering place that fosters community while exceeding the University’s sustainability goals. We worked closely with Sodexo and the University’s dining services and facilities management teams, generating design options informed by early phase energy modeling to maximize the building’s energy performance with a fully glazed envelope.

The serpentine design serves as a beacon along the natural pedestrian pathways, connecting two dormitories with a modern dining room. Customdesigned exterior glass panels blend opaque and transparent glazing to reduce energy costs; allow full daylight and outdoor views for diners; and promote privacy between the facility and adjacent residence halls. Students gather in small seating nooks strategically interspersed among serveries to socialize, dine, and utilize the WIFI connectivity found on  both levels of the modernized and welcoming hub.

The reuse of the existing structural spaces kept construction demolition to a minimum; recycled and regional materials are utilized throughout; and low-emitting paints, sealants, and flooring optimize indoor environmental quality. The facility boasts a highly energy-efficient variable refrigerant system, low-flow  plumbing  fixtures, LED lighting, and roofing and pavers that reflect solar radiation and reduce heat island effect.

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