Amherst College – Greenway Dorms

The Greenway Dormitories are broken down into four structures with a total area of 110,000 gsf, providing 300 beds of undergraduate housing for Amherst College.

Client:		Amherst College
Designer:		Kyu Sung Woo Architects
Size:		110,000 SF

 

Project Features

• Four new cast-in-place concrete flat slab structures.
• Buildings range in height from 4-6 stories, with typical floor-to-floor heights of 9 feet.
• Connected by elevated bridges surrounding a central outdoor space.
• Concrete poured for all four buildings in 5 months.
• Radiant tubing installed slabs to conduct heating and cooling.
• Re-routing of water, sewer, high voltage electric, steam and chilled water lines out of the footprint.
• Tie-in lines to adjacent buildings.
• Roughly 3-foot layers of special soils.
• New basketball and volleyball courts, BBQ pit, Black Locust bleachers and a basking rock.
• Fixed solar shade, abundant daylighting and controls.
• High performance envelope.
• Natural ventilation and heat recovery systems.
• Stormwater “gardens” and a rooftop rainwater collection system.