On June 10, as indicated in this official record, the University’s Campus Planning Committee met to discuss ideas for the construction of the new dormitory. Architect Mark Forster of the firm Zimmer Gunsul Frasca (also designed the University’s Athletic Medicine Center) outlined preliminary plans for the project.
He said the new building will have either a C-shape or a design that involves “three residential bars connected by a large first floor intended to house public uses such as dining services, academic and meeting spaces.”
At the meeting, Forster also said the University is planning Museum of Natural and Cultural History to part what the University calls the “superblock,” an area bounded by Moss and Agate Streets on the east and west and 15th and 17th Avenues on the north and south. The area will also house the new residence hall. The record calls it “one of the last
remaining sites available for a larger-scale campus building.”
Also of interest: the basketball courts currently across the street from Bean Complex on 15th Avenue will be “moved to the covered tennis court area.”
There are also suggestions for the new residence hall’s design from planning committee members in the document.