Behind the lush trees along Piedmont Avenue sat a featureless and foreboding apartment building. Our task: transform this sad 1960s building into a friendly, attractive, safe and accessible home for the student population.

The original building design enclosed the courtyard behind a high slumpstone wall with inaccessible steps leading to a bare “prison-yard” court within.  To mitigate these conditions, we removed the wall and replaced it with a series of screens and a new entry sequence, providing security, visibility and improved accessibility.