Throughout 2019 and 2020, Dartmouth leadership and Campus Services engaged the community in a rigorous process to create a master planning guide for developing our physical campus over the next 30 years. The resulting Planning for Possibilities: A Strategic Campus Framework provided the foundation for long-term campus planning. The framework contemplated including housing on Lyme Road, and this revised plan for apartment-style housing builds on that concept.
The project features three residential buildings, which will allow Dartmouth to meet an urgent need for high-quality, apartment-style living for undergraduate students and address the need to significantly update our existing undergraduate housing stock. The design builds in flexibility to convert to graduate and professional student housing in the future. Notably, the project has been relocated to the west side of Lyme Road on the grounds of the former golf course.
The project will include:
- Three apartment-style residential buildings;
- 128 apartment units, with the capacity to house 400 undergraduate students (estimated) or 300 graduate students;
- Common and gathering spaces (suitable for active programming) located in each building;
- Indoor and outdoor spaces for a range of social gatherings;
- A fitness facility for students;
- Dedicated apartments for live-in professional staff/faculty; and
- A landscape design that preserves and enhances access to green spaces and Pine Park.
Current design contemplates both a stone-and-wood or a brick-and-panel exterior; this is one example of an area where community feedback could influence the final design.