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Oakland Hall
Oakland Hall is a new 706-bed residence hall at the University of Maryland’s College Park campus. The project will include the construction of a residence hall and a satellite central utility building (SCUB) together totaling more than 200,000 square feet. As the first high-rise dorm built on the University’s north campus in over 50 years, the concept for Oakland Hall was driven by campus planning principles, contextual architecture and sustainability aspirations. The project is targeting LEED®-Gold certification.
While the University has a longstanding heritage of memorable quads, courtyards and lawns, the University’s north campus has relatively few quality open spaces. "Our team recognized the dearth of quality open spaces in the north campus, and thus our campus planning strategy for Oakland Hall is to extend the narrow adjacent open spaces and create a large useable lawn" says Robert Keane, AIA, Principal-in-Charge for WDG Architecture. "We believe the new campus green will both unify and enliven the Denton Quad area and potentially influence future planning patterns."
The building currently is programmed to have double duplex suites and double suites. The typical residential floor will house approximately 90 students including two resident assistants (RAs). The program calls for a range of community spaces that will support a variety of formal and informal social gatherings as well as collaborative and private studying environments.
The design has large windows framing eastward views of the new quad and westward views of the woods. A grand staircase, the centerpiece of the expansive lobby, connects the quad level lobby down to the terrace level gallery and multi-purpose room. The building’s corridors and elevator lobby terminate with room-sized bay windows and the "see through" floor lounges and study lounges utilize significant amounts of glass at both the corridor walls and exterior walls.