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Some campuses are looking to
bend these models. At Clemson
University in South Carolina, the
housing program is making subtle
improvements with its new campus
housing. In these halls, the university
is providing first-year students a
cluster of private bathrooms as
an alternative to the community
bathrooms typically offered by a
traditional model. A second wing
of the same building will house
first- and second-year honors college
students. By splitting the bathroom
into two separate units, the modified
semi-suite will provide more privacy
and flexibility than would a typical
semi-suite model, characterized by
one bathroom shared by two separate
rooms. In addition, students in both
wings will be encouraged to gather
in common lounges throughout the
building.

life safety systems designed to protect
students from emergency situations.
However, passive strategies also have
a powerful role to play in safety and
security. Passive strategies harness
the presence and movement of people
in the built environment to heighten
mutual awareness and create a
community of safety. These strategies
include the design, location, and
visible presence of the front desk and
other associated safety areas. Locating
gathering places along points of entry
encourages the collective eyes of the
community to maintain an awareness
of potentially unsafe or dangerous
conditions and events. Maintaining
sight lines between gathering spaces
and circulation paths and points of
building entry also encourages the
community to maintain a watchful eye
on these vulnerable access points to
the building such as stairwells, back
doors, emergency egress doors, and
others.

F

The International Living-Learning
Center at Oregon State University
(OSU) in Corvallis had to grapple with
the question of safety and security
for this global community. This hall
is one of the newest and most robust
living-learning facilities at Oregon
State. The center core houses 344
students in 150,000 square feet that
includes a 5,000-square-foot grocery,
a 1,200-square-foot café, and more
than 30,000 square feet of academic
spaces, including a 150-seat tiered
lecture hall, 25 classrooms, faculty
offices, a resource library, technology
center, and a multi-faith room. From
the beginning, OSU and their design
partners, INTO UK, wanted a truly
integrated facility and challenged
themselves to break free of the
typical hierarchy created by locating
public spaces at the ground level and
residences above. The result drove the
academic spaces up into the five-story
facility to promote full integration.
Dubbed the "mixing chamber," the
design became a metaphor for the
mixing of ideas, people, and culture

or all the other
considerations that go into
residence hall design, the
basis of Maslow's hierarchy
of needs still cannot be overlooked.
How can students be expected to thrive
if they do not feel safe?
Achieving a baseline standard of
safety and security is a foundational
requirement in contemporary
residence hall design. However,
designers and campus housing
leaders are continually exploring
ways to improve upon that baseline,
considering topics such as acoustics,
indoor air quality, access to natural
light, organization of public spaces,
and sense of entry. These are in
addition to other elements of safety
management such as active design
strategies, passive design strategies,
and better policies supporting
emergency management and access
control.
Commonly utilized active
strategies for safety include access
control, video surveillance, and other
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between and among domestic and
international students and faculty.
However, as so many public amenities
were spread throughout all five stories
of this facility, housing and dining
services had to address the security of
the residential wings separately from
the security of the academic core in
order to allow for an open campus
facility while still providing students
the sense of safety that would help
reduce the heightened stress that often
comes with studying abroad.
The design team addressed
active layers of security utilizing
access controls to provide student
residents access to the front doors,
the elevator and stair cores, and,
finally, their individual bedrooms
to support secure residential wings.
Separately, the ground level and
upper academic cores required open
access for faculty and international
students not living in the community
to share in the social and academic
resources. In addition, passive
strategies were also developed like an
open welcome desk, transparency of
classrooms, community kitchens and
floor lounges, and clear lines of sight
between residential wings and the
academic core.

U

nderstanding the most
impactful elements of
residence hall design and
re-imagining the most
effective ways to utilize them is an
important beginning. But it is still
just the beginning. Chief housing
officers understand that more
focused and intentional research that
definitively explores the cause and
effect relationship between hall design
and desirable student experiences is
needed.
Unfortunately, little literature
has been produced that directly
examines the aforementioned
relationship between residence hall
architecture and student experience



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New Members
Vision
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Your ACUHO-I
Transitions
Res Life
Business
Special Focus
Completing the Loop
Perfect Partners
Conversations
First Takes
Around Student Affairs
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