KENNEDY HALL, BELMONT
UNIVERSITY, NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE Kennedy Hall is a dormitory housing 250 students on the campus of Belmont University in Nashville. Due to a enrollment growth, the university commissioned the project in August of 2002 with the stipulation that it be ready for occupation in August of 2003. The site was a steeply sloped parcel adjacent to an existing multi-story dorm, which the client required connection to on multiple floors. The design solution was a 3 to 5 story building in a shallow U shape about 280 long. Masonry was the default exterior material in order to fit in with the rest of the buildings on campus. The architects devised a palette of pop-outs, setbacks, bonding patterns and colors to break down the scale of such a long structure. Pop-outs occurring along the faade break down the overall length, as do gabled roof forms that signal entry at the midpoint and serve as the buildings bookends. |
