Residence Halls
Residence Halls
We plan to fully renovate all of our residence halls, including student rooms, bathrooms, and lounges, starting with Hill House and working on a few halls at a time until all have been completed. These will be the first comprehensive renovations to student living spaces since the opening of NCSSM-Durham in 1980. Hill is being renovated first, followed by Reynolds, with other residence halls to follow in turn one by one.
All of our residence halls will be much nicer places for residential life at the end of this project. There will be all new flooring, fresh paint, all new furniture, and completely renovated bathrooms with new fixtures and tile. Below, you can see our architects’ renderings of a completed room and bathroom.
Logistical changes
Students assigned to each residence hall undergoing renovations will live in temporary modular residence halls set up near Hunt. This area is called Unicorn Village. Groups of students will live in UniVille temporarily in turn as each hall's renovations are completed.
Status
The construction of UniVille is complete, with an emergency access road, stormwater pond, and modular units in place and is housing students in Fall Semester 2024. Hill residence hall renovation began in June 2024, and students assigned to Hill are living in UniVille. The next residence hall to be renovated will be Reynolds.
Start date
June 2024
Anticipated finish date
2027
Unicorn Village: Temporary residence hall
To avoid reducing NCSSM-Durham enrollment during residence hall renovations, we are renovating residence halls a few at a time over the coming years while providing temporary housing on campus that will host the residents of the spaces under renovation. UniVille is located between the baseball and soccer fields and is composed of two long student housing units connected to each other and to the rest of campus by new sidewalks. It includes lounge spaces, Community Coordinator apartments, and rooms comparable in size and furnishings to our typical student rooms.
Modular site location
Modular Residence Hall layout
This will be an adventure in all senses of the word, but hall communities will experience it together as a community. During all these transitions, residence hall community groups will remain intact, as you can see from the diagram above – and we will even seek to keep room neighbors close between moves to foster community.
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