A furniture program built around community, for the first project built under California's Affordable Student Housing grant.
When San Francisco State University set out to build West Grove Commons, the goal went beyond adding more beds. The project, a new six-story, 120,000-square-foot residence hall with more than 700 beds, plus a 50,000-square-foot dining commons, two floor student health and well-being center, and so much more. The housing is designed around a "pod" concept: tight-knit communities of roughly 35 first-year students, each grouped around a shared lounge. The furniture needed to support that same sense of intimacy and belonging, at the aggressive pace of a 24-month design-build schedule.
Our Learning Environments team worked closely with project designer EHDD and led the furniture program across the entire project, delivering fully integrated solutions from programming through installation in sync with contractor McCarthy Building Companies.
