Amherst, MA

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​The Fieldstone apartments serve over 800 upper classman and graduate students, constructed on underutilized land adjacent to main entry of campus and connecting to the southwest residential halls.

 

They were built as a public private partnership (P3) with Balfour Beaty and this housing and grounds are managed by Greystar, which allowed the landscape to be more robust than other parts of campus that need to be maintained by university staff.

 

The Fieldstone is comprised of two separate buildings that each have interior courtyards for the students that include outdoor furniture, seatwalls, and lawn areas for passive recreation. The planting through out the project includes heavily vegetated planting beds that 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 and street trees continue the tree-lined streets of the UMass campus.

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Crowley Cottrell, DiMella Shaffer, Arcadis, Suffolk Construction, Balfour Beaty, EDI Landscape LLC

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