William & Mary Housing + Dining

William & Mary Housing and Dining West Woods + Jamestown East Williamsburg, Virginia

Housing + Dining Master Plan In February 2020, William & Mary (W&M) engaged VMDO as part of a team with strategic advisors Brailsford & Dunlavey to develop a comprehensive Housing + Dining Master Plan for the first time in the university’s 327-year history.

With an aging housing and dining portfolio, the university needed a campus-wide capital plan to fundamentally transform the condition of its existing facilities. Studying housing and dining in parallel allowed the team to produce an integrated strategy for re-creating the on-campus student experience—with plans to complete this ambitious project by 2032.

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Program Space Inventory

Program Space Inventory

Master Plan Findings

Demo / Remove

Demo / RemovReves e Willis

Richmond Hall Randolph Complex Hunt Hall Botetourt Complex Richmond Brown Green + Gold Villiage Randolph YatesComplex Commons Dining Ludwell Botetourt Complex Campus Center DuPont Green & Gold Village Total: 2,350 Beds

Reves Willis Hunt Brown Commons Dining The planning effort began with a thorough Yates Campus Center assessment of current housing and dining Ludwell DuPont operations, facilities, and student preferences.

Major Renovation Total: 2,350 Beds Monroe Old Dominion Jefferson Total: 454 Beds

This assessment determined that over 4,000 beds of the W&M inventory should be renovated or replaced. It also identified the need to replace Monroe Commons, W&M’s major residential dining hall and heavily renovate or replace its marketplace dining venue.

Old Dominion

45%

45%

Major Renovation Jefferson Total: 454 Beds

Focused Renovation

Barrett Bryan Complex One Tribe Pl. Graduate Complex Sorority Court Sadler Center 1,285 Beds BryanTotal: Complex

Focused Renovation

Barrett One Tribe Pl. Graduate Complex Sorority Court Sadler Center Renovation Total: 1,285 Beds Not Required

Tribe Square Landrum Chandler Fraternity Housing Lemon CW House Hardy Hardy CW House

Renovation not Required Tribe Square Total: 991 Beds Chandler Landrum Lemon Fraternity Housing Total: 991 Beds

35%

Bote 388

35% 20%

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Green & Gold 428 beds

Richmond Hall 176 beds

One Tribe Place 354 beds

Fraternity 177 beds

Tribe Square 56 beds Bryan 337 beds

Yates 259 beds COMMONS DINING

SADLER CENTER

Sorority 175 beds

Old Dominion 126 beds

Monroe 141 beds

Brown 77 beds

STUDENT HEALTH

etourt 8 beds

Randolph 335 beds

Landrum 213 beds Chandler 145 beds

SWEM LIBRARY

Dupont 276 beds CENTRAL PLANT

Ludwell Apartments 268 beds

Hardy 205 beds Lemon 183 beds

Jefferson 187 beds

Barrett 186 beds

Willis 49 beds

Reves 30 beds Hunt 57 beds

CAMPUS CENTER MKTPLACE DINING

Graduate Apartments 233 beds

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Overview Capital Recommendations New Construction

Master Plan Vision The Housing + Dining Master Plan improves or replaces all of the university’s outdated facilities.

New construction at the West Woods site will fundamentally re-imagine this the western edge of the William & Mary campus, replacing outdated housing and dining with a vibrant new campus community. Its 1500 new beds will replace or allow the demolition of the campus’s poorest performing housing stock. Its 800-seat dining hall will replace the existing Commons Dining and embed a primary dining facility in close proximity to the heart of campus.

Additional new construction projects include approximately 250 beds adjacent to Lemon and Hardy Halls and the redevelopment of Campus Center. New housing on the Lemon Hardy site will be called “Jamestown East” and will complete the quad imagined at the buildings initial construction in 2007. By replacing the existing Campus Center and several surrounding buildings, the university will create a welcoming campus entry that integrates 300 beds of housing into a mixed use development intended to create a vibrant and welcoming experience for students, residents, newcomers and visitors alike.

Along with an ambitious plan to renovate more than 1,700 beds, these projects will either improve or replace all of the university’s outdated facilities, and create palpable improvements to the William & Mary campus. By implementing the Housing and Dining Master Plan, the average age of William & Mary’s housing facilities will drop from 54 to 10 years. Across the board, the indoor air quality and student living conditions will improve dramatically. Meanwhile, the programming envisioned for these facilities promises to revitalize the student experience with space to socialize, study and have fun. With a new diverse array of common space infused throughout housing and dining facilities, the plan creates opportunities for community and engagement that are simply not possible now.

Phase I + II (Yates + Randolph Sites Phase III (Site TBD) Total: 1,500 Beds

Replace (1418) Repurpose (432) Green + Gold Village Randolph Complex Botetourt Yates Brown (Repurpose) Richmond (Repurpose) Reves (Repurpose) Willis (Repurpose) Total: 1850 Beds

Renovation Hunt Monroe Jefferson Old Dominion Barrett DuPont Sorority Court Bryan Complex Graduate Complex Tribe Square Total: 2,142 Beds (Loss of 218 Beds) = 1,924

Existing to Remain Chandler Lemon Fraternity Housing Total: 1,502 Beds

Landrum Hardy One Tribe Place

Total Inventory: 4,926 Beds

One Tribe Place

Green & Gold Village (To Be Removed) Tribe Square (Existing to Remain)

Bryan Complex (Renovate)

Fraternity (Existing to Remain)

Sorority (Renovate)

Monroe (Renovate)

Old Dominion (Renovate)

West Woods Housing + Dining

Botetourt (To Be Removed) Landrum (Existing to Remain)

DuPont (To Be Removed)

Jefferson (Renovate) Chandler (Existing to Remain)

Hardy (Existing to Remain)

Barrett (Renovate) Jamestown East

Lemon (Existing to Remain)

Shifting from Planning to Implementation The master plan was unanimously approved by the Board of Visitors at its April 2022 meeting. The university is now shifting from planning to implementing these plans, which all align with their Vision 2026 goal of “Evolving to Excel.”

In 2022, William & Mary solicited a public-private partnership agreement (P3) to initiate its ambitious first phase of new construction. VMDO is now designing this work as part of the team, led by Balfour Beatty Campus Solutions, that was selected to develop the project. The projects to be developed by the team include housing and dining at West Woods and the new Jamestown East building.

The West Woods project vision re-shapes the existing campus edge into a new campus center.

A new handicap accessible pedestrian bridge connecting West Woods to the Student Life Walk (which currently terminates at the Sadler Center) will integrate this new housing and dining into the heart of campus. Meanwhile, dining and shared common spaces will offer a compelling destination for students on the main campus while supporting a thriving community at West Woods.

Campus Transformation VMDO’s design concept is intended to set a new standard for the student experience, giving students high-quality residential and dining spaces befitting the caliber of the W&M brand.

The design at West Woods is intended to create a sense of place that architecturally reflects W&M’s unique character while breathing new life into its interpretation. It balances a sense of traditional campus planning and strong W&M campus traditions with a modern architecture representative of W&M as a pioneer of developing leaders of tomorrow.

West Woods A variety of outdoor spaces at West Woods establishes a new collegiate campus core, creating a vibrant neighborhood “village” for over 900 first and second year students while maintaining the scale and massing of W&M’s buildings. While the residence halls feel like small buildings, they are interconnected with the infrastructure needed to operate them efficiently. By intentionally including spaces for community and connection, for learning and engagement, the new project encourages W&M students and their vibrant culture to thrive.

West Woods Dining Hall The placement of the new 800-seat dining hall responds to student demand for dining close to the center of campus. A new pedestrian bridge will improve physical, as well as perceived, proximity to the heart of campus. The new dining hall is imagined to have a vibrant interior environment, characterized with transparent connections to the adjacent woods to the east, and a distinguished face to the new campus quad to the west. In the evening, the dining hall could serve as a soft lantern-like beacon for pathways through the West Woods.

West Woods Sustainability The project will comply with the requirements of the High-Performance Buildings Act and utilize the LEED Certification compliance pathway. Multiple approaches are being pursued for sustainable sites, energy and water efficiency, material use, and indoor environmental quality that will help achieve William & Mary’s minimum requirement of Silver level certification, with the potential for achieving Gold.

The following High-Performance strategies have been incorporated into this project: air infiltration, HVAC System Selection as a 100% geothermal high performance HVAC system with heat pumps, ventilation, air side energy recovery, water side heat recovery, high performance lighting, BAS scheduling, high performance domestic hot water selection, high performance appliance selection, and a plug load policy.

Jamestown East William & Mary’s new Jamestown East project - developed by the same development team on the same timeline as the first phase of West Woods - will add more than 250 new beds adjacent to the historic core of campus.

The building massing at Jamestown East blends the new building seamlessly into its neighborhood context. A portal and intentional opening with Lemon Hall invite pedestrian access to the interior courtyard, maintaining an open connection with the adjacent campus and residential neighborhoods alike. The triangular public space shaped by the buildings is shared as a neighborhood park, and residential garden --- incorporating a geothermal wellfield.

Meanwhile, common space along Jamestown Road contributes to a vibrant street-scape, enlivening an important campus edge.

The building’s scale, character and architectural detailing respond to the traditional context of the William & Mary campus. The massing and form of Jamestown East matches the existing Lemon and Hardy Halls, while refining their expression. Its straightforward, simple, clear architectural expression defers to the more historic Barrett Hall.

Landrum

Chandler

Jefferson

Hardy

Barrett

Triangle Garden

Lemon

Jamestown East

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For more information on Residence Life work please contact: Michele Westrick, AIA, LEED AP BD + C westrick@vmdo.com Frances Lengowski, AIA, LEED AP BD+C lengowski@vmdo.com

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