This diverse village completes Centerbrook’s master plan for the residential district of the Quinnipiac University’s Mount Carmel Campus. The three-story brick buildings have been carefully sited to fit comfortably into a steep hillside and to complement adjacent student housing. The economical repetition of a single-building design was obscured by combining the front and back sides and gable ends of the buildings to form distinct courtyards.

The Village IV buildings continue the design concept of creating intimate neighborhoods with distinct identities within a larger residential district. Brick walls with arched openings connect the buildings and create a variety of small courtyards, each with a special ambiance. Blending with the hilly terrain like a small mountain town, the buildings provide inspiring views of the undulating Sleeping Giant parkland to the north. Sociable outdoor spaces complete the feeling of a unique and varied residential neighborhood that doesn’t feel “institutional.”

For four decades Centerbrook has designed esidence hall projects at the Mount Carmel campus totaling nearly 2,000 beds, as well as those at the school’s York Hill Campus with more than 1,500 beds.