Student Housing High Rise

Project Overview

Client

Fordham Real Estate Development

Location

Chicago, Illinois

Size

507,000 sf 30 stories

Principals

Avram Lothan, Mary Ann Van Hook, Kerrie Mistry

Year

2015

Services

programming, concept design

Awards

The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, “New Chicago Architecture” Exhibit; featured in book, New Chicago Architecture, Metropolitan Arts Press

A high-rise accommodates the needs of a growing urban student population, weaving programmatic components into a cohesive building identity,

The new student living model provides shared and private apartments and parking in close proximity to higher learning institutions. The concept is a new typology of a student housing that synthesizes program and marketing requirements geared toward an urban living/learning population. The client presented LVDA with the task of designing a large building in a dense urban environment. Even at 30 stories, the project is an infill building that is seen in glimpses rather as a whole composition. Driven by cost per bed rather than sf per unit, the program maximizes the smallest and largest units leading to a compositional arrangement that optimizes both in discrete compartments. The result is a singular identity that comes from its fragments.

Student Housing High Rise

A high-rise accommodates the needs of a growing urban student population, weaving programmatic components into a cohesive building identity,

The new student living model provides shared and private apartments and parking in close proximity to higher learning institutions. The concept is a new typology of a student housing that synthesizes program and marketing requirements geared toward an urban living/learning population. The client presented LVDA with the task of designing a large building in a dense urban environment. Even at 30 stories, the project is an infill building that is seen in glimpses rather as a whole composition. Driven by cost per bed rather than sf per unit, the program maximizes the smallest and largest units leading to a compositional arrangement that optimizes both in discrete compartments. The result is a singular identity that comes from its fragments.

Project Overview

Client

Fordham Real Estate Development

Location

Chicago, Illinois

Size

507,000 sf 30 stories

Project Team

Avram Lothan, Mary Ann Van Hook, Kerrie Mistry

Year

2015

Services

programming, concept design

Awards

The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, “New Chicago Architecture” Exhibit; featured in book, New Chicago Architecture, Metropolitan Arts Press

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