US-based architect Kyu Sung Woo’s graduate housing complex, 10 Akron Street, for Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has opened.
The six-storey building on the Charles River has projecting glass bay windows, while the lower levels are clad in wood in a reference to the three-storey wood-framed houses next door.
The complex includes 215 bedrooms in 30 different suite types, study lounges, a faculty director’s suite, common rooms, a fitness room, and an underground garage. 
Credit: Kyu Sung Woo
Designed to minimise energy consumption, the building uses recycled and regionally sourced materials, including renewable bamboo flooring and wall panelling. It aims to achieve a high LEED certification.
The complex is part of the university’s plan to house 50% of its graduate, professional and doctoral students itself so as to lessen pressure on the local housing market and encourage the formation of a campus community.
It is next to Peabody Terrace, the 500-apartment Harvard housing scheme designed in 1964 by Josep Lluís Sert, with whom Woo both studied and worked.
This year, Woo became the first architect to win the Ho-Am Prize, Korea’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
His practice in Massachusetts has also designed student housing for Vermont’s Bennington College, plus a mixed-use complex for Boston’s Northeastern University.
Kyo Sung Woo’s graduate housing opens at Harvard
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