UC Riverside Dundee Glasgow and North District Housing

The students at the University of California Riverside (UCR) are facing significant housing and cost of living challenges for obtaining higher education. Acknowledging that availability of campus housing is crucial to student health, well-being, community-building, and academic success, Walker Macy is working with the University to redevelop the northern portion of the UCR campus for student community, an area comprising nearly one-quarter of the overall campus. The density of this new housing makes shared outdoor amenity spaces a critical component of these projects, augmenting the built environment with amenities to support key social and educational goals. Walker Macy has been integral to all the phases of the development from master planning through final build-out of preliminary phases, prioritizing diverse, novel, and beautifully detailed landscape spaces for gathering, respite, study, and recreation; employing native and climate-adaptive plants and materials suited to the hot Inland Empire context; and creating inclusive, navigable neighborhoods that knit respectfully into the existing campus framework.