Pitzer College Residential Life 2

Vision

This project implements the second of three phases of Pitzer’s housing master plan. The original housing halls on campus date from the 1960’s when the college was constructed and are now around 45 years old. The housing master plan envisions ‘a unique opportunity to revitalize its residential college, and in effect, its entire campus’ and outlines goals of ‘environmentally sensitive design to embody a sense of social responsibility’.

Phase I was comprised of 323 beds in three halls (Pitzer, Sanborn, and Atherton) grouped around the Gold student center and pool. It is a mix of residential, residential support, academic, facilities, and central plant space.

Phase II is similarly mixed use and has 308 student beds. . Residential support spaces are located in three commons clusters and include a variety of quiet and social study rooms, decks, an exhibition kitchen for cooking classes, a TV lounge, laundry rooms, trash and recycle areas. The commons also have three studios for use by faculty, residential life staff, or visiting faculty. The first level of the west hall is home to media studies and study abroad programs, the Pitzer archive conferencing center, the mac lab, and core learning spaces.