Southwest Quadrangle

Georgetown University’s Southwest Quadrangle, the first phase of our firm’s master plan for the University’s campus as awhole, provides a 780-bed student residential quadrangle, dining hall, and 800-car parking garage. Located immediately tothe west of the historic heart of the campus, the new quadrangle continues the architectural character, scale, and grid organization established by Georgetown’s earlier stone and brick buildings. The half acre site opens toward the PotomacRiver to the south and is contained by three independent but attached six to eight story residence halls which share a variety ofground floor common facilities including lobbies, reading rooms, classrooms, a recreation room, computer room, and laundryfacilities. On their typical floors each residence hall consists of a carefully crafted “neighborhood” of single and double roomssharing common bathrooms and distributed around a central, naturally lit lounge and study rooms. The three residence halls --Kennedy, McCarthy, and Reynolds Family Halls -- were an essential step in the University’s phased strategy of decommissioning or renovating existing residence halls and of providing additional on-campus beds for undergraduates currently living off campus. Leo J. O’Donovan Hall, the Quadrangle’s 1,200-seat central dining facility, providesdining on two levels above grade, with kitchen and other back-of-house activities below. The new facility also supportscampus commissary and catering functions.

RAMSA Partners Robert A.M. Stern and Graham S. Wyatt led the design.