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GRANT LAUNCHES KATHRYN W. DAVIS RESIDENCE VILLAGE Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation begins sustainable housing project fundraising drive with $2.5 million challenge grant
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ince 2001, College of the Atlantic has had a dream of creating a student residence village on Frenchman Bay. Thanks to a challenge pledge from the Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation, honoring Kathryn W. Davis, that dream is becoming a plan. This $2.5 million gift will cover nearly half the cost of constructing the Kathryn W. Davis Student Residence Village. It also takes a distinctly human ecological approach to architecture, combining sustainable materials and innovations with a genuine community approach to dorm life. Created as three individual structures, each with two adjoining units, the houses will include kitchens and common living, recreation and study areas. Once the village is complete, it will raise the percentage of students living on campus to nearly 50 percent. The village is being designed by noted environmental architects Bruce Coldham and Tom Hartman of Coldham Architects, and will include innovative social, cultural and environmental elements. The Davis Residence Village will mingle students from Maine to Montenegro. “We all know that cross-cultural understanding begins with friendship,” said Shelby M.C. Davis when he announced the gift in his mother’s honor. “At the Kathryn W.
Kathryn W. Davis at her home in Northeast Harbor.
Davis Residence Village, there will be many opportunities for deepened connections as students make meals together and discuss everything from their favorite music to the fate of the world.” Equally compelling is the unusual environmental sophistication of these buildings, among the most ecologically sensitive of any college dormitory—even producing a portion of their own energy. To have an environmentally advanced building be part of an academic institution means that each innovation will become part of the COA education.
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