UCSD Pepper Canyon West Student Housing

The UCSD Pepper Canyon West Student Housing project provided 1,316 new beds in apartment-style units for transfer and upper-division students in response to a high demand for affordable, on-campus housing. The project is comprised of 580,500-sf in two high-rise (22- and 23-story) towers, with connected mid-rise buildings. The total site area is 8.6 acres, with five buildable acres and 3.6 acres of open space that required restoration after the disruption caused during the construction of the Light Rail Transit extension. Within each apartment, pre-manufactured “Pods” for kitchen, shower room, and toilet room spaces were utilized to meet the project’s Designing for Industrialized Method of Construction (DIMC) requirements. Within the “Pods”, low-flow fixtures were used to meet project green efficiency goals.