PROJECT DATA

Architect: Steven Holl
Location: MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Date: 1999-2002
Program: 350 bed Dormitory residence
Other uses: 125-seat theater, auditorium, common study areas, dining hall, street front restaurant.
Inhabitants: Students
Area: 195,000 gsf, 382 feet long
Floors: 10

Awards: 2003 National AIA Design Award,
2002 New York AIA Design Award,
2000 Progressive Architecture Award

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

CITY

The grid of the city meets the grid of the old campus strip at the new enlarged campus compaound. The definition of the campus bounderies also definds the edge of the city.
The new strip is made of various typologies of buildings according to the principle of "porosity".

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