| Coplon Associates
provided site planning and design services for several
student housing projects at College of the Atlantic.
In 2004, Coplon Associates collaborated with Roc Caivano
Architects on the design and implementation of the 50-bed
Blair-Tyson House. The design features a central landscaped
courtyard between the residential wings of the building
and the portals to the courtyard celebrate connections
to the campus circulation system. Located adjacent to
the south campus drive, The courtyard's west edge is
defined by a garden fence atop a wall built from the
stones of a former building that occupied the site to
screen the adjacent south campus drive and parking.
The Davis Residential Village, a new housing cluster
scheduled to open in fall 2008, features a series of
landscaped courtyards liked by a primary campus walkway.
Designed around this pedestrian "street,"
the site plan integrates the tightly clustered high
performance buildings with two historic cottages along
the shore. The northerly of the two cottages is being
renovated into Deering Commons, a student lounge. The
southerly Sea Fox will remain as student housing. Each
building features a courtyard with a unique design,
united by use of similar local surfacing features, including
re-use of historic wall stone and native plant materials.
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