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“Park Place” Student Housing, LA Tech University

Joint Venture with Ashe Broussard Weinzettle Architects

New $17 million apartment style student housing of 550 beds
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Park Place provides an apartment style student housing option with studio units featuring full kitchens, washers and dryers, and direct walking access to campus.
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The unique living environments for students fuels the City’s desire for an active precinct between the campus and downtown.
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The buildings are placed near the street, forming a series of intimate courtyards within to encourage student interaction and community.
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All units have a private internal face addressing the commons and a public external face addressing the street. Private balconies overlook major campus access streets.
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The program required high quality, amenity rich living units with a modest budget allocation. The design team’s response included exploration of alternative construction systems and materials to maximize value and still allow a custom design solution.
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The new housing has been embraced by students, administrators, city and neighbors, quickly acknowledged as the premier campus address.

This project was a Joint Venture of the Tipton Associates/ABW Architects team. Park Place student housing added 348 additional beds to the new campus housing community. Opened to students in August 2009, it was designed as a catalyst for denser urban development to join the campus to downtown Ruston. The five unique unit types support a diverse student resident population which includes both undergraduate and graduate level students.

Over the past eight years, the team has completed over $55 million of uniquely designed facilities that will serve our campus for many years. From the beginning, the team engaged a wide range of individuals from the campus community to conduct focus groups that determined our unique design features. These exercises yielded a consensus on the campus and ultimately resulted in award-winning design. In addition, every phase of the construction process was delivered in the allotted time, within the budget, and with craftsmanship that exceeded our expectation.

- Dr. James King

Vice President Student Affairs

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LocationRuston, LA

Area117,545 sf

Construction Cost$17.5 million

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Baton Rouge Louisiana 70806
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