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JAN-FEB 2017

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Copyright © Bob Narod Photography ARCHITECTURE January/February 2017 StudentHousingBusiness.com 58 Meeks + Partners designed Domain at Tallahassee for Asset Campus Housing, delivering to the Florida State University market in fall 2017. The project is close to campus, which required the design to be more efficient. Part of that efficiency is enclosing the pool space, as well as some other amenity space, in a private, centralized courtyard. area with deck chairs. On the opposite side are fire pits, grills, an out- door kitchen and dining. Since Minnesota has limited periods of warm weather, merging indoor and outdoor spaces was a key focus of this unusual development. Inside, large gathering areas and a sophisticated take on wood paneling further support the theme of cabin culture. "The developer is trying to capture a market, and our role in that is to create a sense of place," Schoeneck says. "I don't know how widespread the feeling is, but I hope we see a lot more regionality and authenticity because it really helps differentiate what could be repetitive and unnec- essarily austere environments." Off-Campus Climb When students want to move off campus these days, the definition of "off" is becoming much more blurred. New developments that generate the most excitement (for students and owners) are so close to campus, they're basically on campus. Building on these sites comes with its own set of challenges and changes that architects are continuously adapting to. Adjacent-to-campus developments often take longer to get out of the ground because land that is so close to a university border is acquired as an assemblage, says Greg Faulkner, president of Humphreys & Partners. "It takes longer when a site needs to be rezoned and entitled," Faulkner says. "A year to two years, many times. All the sites have hair on them now it seems, and some need two barbers to get approved with the jurisdictions and sellers. It's a big-time sellers' market right now at any top school in the country." Faulkner says Humphreys & Partners today is often designing a build- ing on a site that is approximately one acre in size. "Five years ago, we were working with two- to three-acre sites. The projects are getting more vertical, and the site is getting squeezed. In some cases, we have designed 250- to 300-bed deals. If you had said that five years ago, peo- ple would have laughed. But no matter the size, you still have to have the amenities." An example from the Humphreys & Partners' portfolio is The Found- ry in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which is less than a half-mile from the corporate fitness & sports healthcare academic residential hospitality retail www.cube3studio.com 989.989.9900 info@cube3studio.com designing your Vision

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