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Residence Halls Units 1 & 2 Infill Student Housing
Berkeley, California
EHDD Architecture
During the early 1960s, the University of California, Berkeley built up two city blocks with eight residential monoliths, set on plinths, facing away from the street, in a tree-lined neighborhood of single-family homes and low-density apartment buildings. The university hired San Francisco firm EHDD to design four new "infill" towers, situated between the original buildings. Adding more than 200,000 square feet of construction, the new towers step down in segments from the taller existing buildings, helping to mitigate the scale disparity between the housing blocks and the modest residential neighborhood. Lobby entrances, porches, exterior stairs, and landscaped walkways address the street, making the two superblocks less formidable. Single-story dining halls occupying the central plazas were replaced with landscaped courtyards above 80,000 square feet of below-grade student services space. |