The University of Rhode Island has seen much expansion over its one-hundred-year history. In efforts to support its ever-growing student population, the University enlisted the services of Lerner Ladds + Bartels to increase their on-campus housing options. Working in tandem with nationally-recognized Mackey Mitchell Architects, LLB has recently completed bid documents for the new student housing project at URI. The Hillside Residence Hall includes 429 beds, multipurpose spaces, offices of residential life, and classrooms to support both living and learning. The project will begin construction early in 2011 and anticipates completion by the summer of 2012. Acting as a gateway to the University’s Hillside District, this project, targeting LEED Silver certification, aims to engage students through the creation of dynamic social spaces designed to promote student interaction on both an academic and recreational level. In addition to new building construction, a new roadway with associated landscape and walkway revisions are also part of the project, providing better vehicular and pedestrian connectivity and gaining universal access between the residential, social and academic areas of campus.