If they stood in isolation on a horizontal city block, the three new residential halls at the University of California, Santa Cruz, might seem imposing—five-story curved bars clad in dark wood, with flat facades and orderly stacks of relatively small windows.
Place them on a ridge above a ravine, amid tall stands of redwood trees, and the stocky trio takes on a very different aura: an inventive pairing of built forms and nature where, if anything, the existing beauty is energized by the addition of urban-scaled academic life.
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