Simmons Hall is an MIT undergraduate dormitory designed by Steven Holl Architects and completed in 2002. It houses 340 undergraduates in a variety of room types, including singles and doubles. Amenities include a gym with views of Boston, multiple lounges, laundry rooms on most floors, and a large multi-purpose room. The dorm has an atrium design with open spaces and staircases connecting floors. Glengarry House is a dormitory at Carleton University housing 633 students in doubles and triples that share a bathroom. It has TV lounges on each floor and laundry on the first floor. Lennox & Addington Housing is another Carleton dorm completed in 2011 with 650

1. STUDENT DORMITORY
BY: SITI YAUMILIA SALSA

2. Simons Hall, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
Architects: Steven Holl Architects
Location: Cambridge,
Massachusetts
Local Architect: Perry Dean
Rogers & Partners
Project Year: 1999-2002
Structural Engineer: Simpson
Gumpertz & Heger
Simmons Hall is an MIT Undergraduate Residence Hall. It is home to 340 undergraduates, 10 graduate
students, 2 MIT professors and their families, and 5 Resident Scholars who are visiting MIT for the academic
year.

3. Location
Simmons Hall located at 229 Vassar Street
Most of the undergraduate dormitories at MIT are located west of Massachusetts Ave, near the
gym and other student life facilities, and away from the main campus.

4. FAÇADE

5. FLOOR PLAN
Simmons 1st Floor Plan. Arrow indicates the location of the pictures. Source: MIT Facilites Department.
Simmons 6th Floor Plan. Source: MIT Facilites Department.

6. FACIITIES
Dining
GYM
There are 5 dining halls on the MIT campus.
Simmons Hall has the best, open 7 days a
week for breakfast and dinner. We have a
smaller dining facility with personable staff
that we love.
A well equipped, two story, gym with a
phenomenal view of the Boston skyline.
Use the elliptical, treadmill, free
weights, yoga station, indoor rower, or
the massive two story LED display built
by residents.

7. Ball Pit
MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM
Simmons Hall houses a giant
two story Multi-Purpose
Room (MPR), which has
seating for over 200 people
and is equipped with a 12 foot
projection screen, surround
sound system, Blu-Ray player,
and DIRECTV.

8. LOUNGES ROOM
Simmons has a number of sponge-like lounge areas. Most of the lounges have large multi -
story atriums with abstract shapes. The lounges often have a staircase connecting two floors.
One could almost climb the building by moving between the stairs in each lounge Simmons
has community lounges for studying and play. All lounges are equipped with 42” LCD TVs,
Rokus, and PS3s. During the week residents use them late into the night to work on
problem sets, and on weekends they turn into rooms for movies and games.

9. LAUNDRY
CORIDOR
Simmons has laundry rooms
on almost every floor. Each
laundry room has two
washers and two dryers.

10. Rooms
Simmons has a mix of single and double rooms. There are a vast number of different layouts for
each room type. Some rooms have bathrooms inside them. Other rooms share a bathroom in the
hallway with other nearby rooms. Because bathrooms are private or semi-private, students are
responsible for cleaning their own bathrooms.
Room costs (per semester) 2013-2014
 single $4,511
 double $3,985

11. STAIRS
POOL TABLE
this air hockey table is in an isolated corner on the second floor. As a result, Cosmos tells me that it
receives little use.

12. Weird Quirks
Some of the rooms are above open areas. Cosmos pointed out how the floors of these rooms
feel cooler.
Not all elevators access all floors. For example, the A tower elevator does not reach the public
space on the first floor. This means that residents in the A tower must take two separate elevators to
reach the dining hall. There are also stairs that do not stop on every floor. This is because Cambridge
Fire Code requires two exits from every floor. Since there are three towers, that means there needs to
be six sets of stair on the upper floors. However, not all stairs must reach the bottom individually. Only
five stairwells reach the bottom. The sixth stairwell merges with another one on the 5th and 6th floors.
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15. Diagram section

16. Glengarry House, Carleton University
BUILDING DETAILS
 Population: 633
 11 Floors
 Opened in 1969
 Renovated in 2005
 Linked to Residence Commons

17. Location
Glengarry House Carleton University, Ottawa, ON K1S,
Canada

18. Facilities
TV Lounge
LAUNDRY
TV Lounge on each floor
Laundry located on 1st Floor

19. Room
GLENGARRY: HOUSES JUST OVER 630 STUDENTS IN ROOMS SHARED BETWEEN
2 STUDENTS WHO SHARE A BATHROOM BETWEEN THEM. THE BEDS ARE
SINGLES AND EACH ROOM HAS A DESK AND CLOSET. TWO THIRDS OF ROOMS
DOUBLE; ONE THIRD SINGLES. GLENGARRY FLOORS ARE UNIQUE: A NUMBER OF
ROOMS ARE LOCATED ALONG THE FLOOR HALLWAY. THESE ROOMS INCLUDE A
SINK, AND RESIDENTS USE THE COMMUNAL (SINGLE GENDER) WASHROOM,
WHICH IS CLEANED BY UNIVERSITY STAFF. OTHER BEDROOMS ARE LOCATED IN
3, 4 OR 6 PERSON ‘PODS’ WHICH CONSIST OF THE BEDROOMS, WASHROOMS
AND A COMMON SITTING AREA. WINDOWS IN GLENGARRY DO NOT OPEN.

20. LENNOX & ADDINGTON HOUSING, CARLETON
UNIVERSITY
BUILDING DETAILS
 Opened in 2011
 Mandatory meal plan
 Cooking not permitted
 Population: 650
BUILDING AMENITIES
 Ten floors
 Three elevators
 6 accessible spaces
 Cable hook-up available
 Internet: Wireless
 TV Lounge on each floor
 Laundry room on tunnel
level
ROOM AMENITIES
 Each room includes a
vanity/sink
 Shared washroom
 Mattress size – single
 Room has sink area in
room

21. Rooms
All levels of undergraduate study; east wings consisting of mostly double rooms is reserved
for students in first year studies, while the west wings, new for 2013-14, consist of a
combination of single and double rooms for all students. The 10th floor is exclusive to upper
year students. The 9th floor is a designated quieter floor and the 5th floor is an all female
floor.