Rutgers University — Honors College

New Brunswick, New Jersey
Client: Rutgers University, New Brunswick Development Corporation

Project Description

  • Elkus Manfredi designed the first home consisting of 540 beds for the residential Honors College on the main College Avenue Campus of Rutgers University.
  • This building provides dedicated residential, study, and amenity space for undergraduate Honors College students, as well as administrative offices for the Honors College dean and faculty and four faculty apartments.
  • All three wings of the building feature generous student lounges at ground level that look out onto the new quad, as well as a grab-and-go café, living room area with fireplace, terrace with river views, and seven distinct seminar rooms.
  • The project is certified LEED-NC Silver.

Photographers: Frank Villafane and Robert Benson

Award

U.S. Green Building Council — New Jersey

Innovative School Project of the Year (as part of the College Avenue Redevelopment Initiative)