Fraternity houses were traditionally the most popular form of housing at Dartmouth College, which was until recently a male-only university. Our design provides an inviting alternative to the fraternity house by breaking the scale of a dormitory into "houses" with individual living rooms, central stairways and study/seminar rooms. Built into a hillside, the three buildings join at a common ground floor that creates an informal quadrangle- an outdoor living room.

The residential cluster is a prototype for Dartmouth's innovative "cluster" concept, integrating housing with a variety of places for study and socializing to enhance student life and form neighborly connections.

Red bricks, sharply pitched roofs, dormers and the occasional oculus tie the new buildings to older Georgian buildings on campus. In the summer, the residential cluster provides the same uses for guests attending the College's summer conference programs.