Our renovations at Morse and Stiles represent a conversation with a respected predecessor, architect Eero Saarinen, who designed the buildings in the late 1950s at Yale University. Our work here was subtle and surgical, addressing student dissatisfaction with the housing dynamic composed largely of stand-alone single rooms, and the lack of activity space and green landscape. We transformed single rooms into suites and added below-ground student life space, made inviting and light-filled through skylights. We wove landscape through the architecture, bringing water and greenery to sunken courtyards and a waterfall and terrace that extends the dining hall into the courtyard.