Perched along the Appalachian hillside, this new student housing community answers Fairmont University’s growing enrollment and evolving academic offerings with a vibrant place to live and learn. Terracing with the land, the building frames stepped student plazas and an open courtyard that stitch residence life into daily campus movement. A lively pattern of punched windows animates the façades, signaling an active, inclusive community within. Inside, a mix of meeting rooms and a community wellness store supports collaboration, well-being, and everyday convenience. The building’s geometry carefully negotiates the hill’s contours, while a material and color palette drawn from the surrounding wooded Appalachian landscape grounds the project in its rural context, contemporary in expression yet unmistakably of Fairmont, West Virginia.