Hassayampa Academic Village, Phase 1

Courtyard looking toward social lounge.

Project details

• Project Name: Hassayampa Academic Village, Phase 1
• Client: Arizona State University
• Project Type: Residential planning and architectural design
• Principal Designer/s: Rodolfo Machado, Principal; Machado and Silvetti Associates, Inc. and David Evans, Principal; Gould Evans Associates
• Design Team: Mike Yusem, Krista Shepherd, Derek Johnson, Jose Pombo, Michael LeBlanc, Peter Lofgren, Tom Chinnock, Stephanie Randazzo Dwyer, Mike McAtee, Roberto de Oliveira Castro, Greg McDowell, Makoto Abe, Jenell Bass, Kelly Hutzell, Henry Sipos, Paul Schlapobersky, Briana Smathers, Andrew Hamblin, Ron Geren, Jose Carlos Ribera, Cyndia Cameron, Greg Buchanan, Mark Cone, Gina Poppe, Reid Johnson, Liisa Taylor, Brian Tong, Adam Odgers
• Contractor/s: Core Construction
• Date of commencement of project: April 2005
• Date of completion of project: April 2007
• Location of site: Tempe, Arizona
• Site Area: 318,000 sq. ft.
• Built-up Area: 585,000 sq. ft.
• Cost of Construction/Execution: $89 million

Social lounge interior.

Words from the Architects

This is a major phase of the ASU South Campus Residential Master Plan and is the keystone building located on the southeast edge of Arizona State University. The complex is intended to create a new entry threshold to the university, where campus and community come together. The academic village establishes facilities for both living and learning, mixing dormitory rooms with classroom, computing, and tutoring space.

Courtyard looking South.

Two existing campus malls weave into the site to form an outdoor village common courtyard. The Hassayampa Academic Village interlaces 1,900 beds with classroom, computing, dining and retail components. The buildings are organized as a series of 4 story courtyard buildings sharing a public gallery space with a 7-story tower.

Courtyard looking South.

The towers flank the primary east-west and north-south connections to campus and serve as thresholds to the gallery spaces with their entries to the residential buildings. Each of these buildings is comprised of 4 floors of 40 student communities sharing a social lounge with the adjoining floor. Together, the 4 floors of student suites gain a shared identity through the color of their respective courtyard elevations, thereby promoting an individual identity for each building within the life of the academic village.

Credits

• Text by Machado and Silvetti Associates + Gould Evans, LLC
• Photographs, © Anton Grassl / Esto www.esto.com, Courtesy of Machado and Silvetti Associates + Gould Evans, LLC