Chapman Residential Complex - Dining Facility Orange, CA

College campuses throughout the nation are faced with surging student populations and limited land resources. Chapman University has met this universal challenge with new student housing solutions developed with greater intensity, innovation and complexity.

The project site reclaims an existing low-density, two-story residence hall and the adjacent surface parking lot and intensifies it into a four-story building of 302 beds of dormitory and apartment-style housing over a single level podium parking garage. The design also includes a 26,000 sq.ft. full-service dining hall with an 11,000 sq.ft. conference facility, special guest suites, Alumni Center and Career Development Center above.

The signature feature highlighting the student housing neighborhood and overall complex is an 85-foot tall tower that includes a rock climbing wall. MVE's Graphics team played a key role in creating compelling murals to differentiate this community space from other university dining facilities.