Constructed on underutilized land adjacent to the main entry of campus, The Fieldstone apartments serve over 800 of UMass Amherst’s upper classmen and graduate students while connecting to the southwest residential halls. This complex is comprised of two separate buildings, each containing an interior courtyard for the students. These spaces are comprised of outdoor furniture, seat walls, and lawn areas for passive recreation. Throughout the project site, heavily vegetated planting beds use native plants to serve as screening for the lower floor apartments, shade along plazas and sidewalks, and rain gardens that filter stormwater from the courtyard areas. Larger canopy trees are used to shade the parking areas while street trees continue the tree-lined avenues of the UMass Amherst campus.