Sunroom
An organizational design strategy for student living that meets students where and how they live while building operational ease in from the start.
In development, this study reflects some the problems we’re solving for and would love to talk with you as to how it could apply to your project.
Potential Services
Health-first space planning
Neuroscience-informed design consulting
Material and product health screening
Operational and construction cost alignment
Facilitated priority alignment workshops
Licensing / consulting on the prototype
Aspirational Friends and Collaborators
Lifestyle and wellness-forward hospitality
Purpose-built student housing developers
Health-forward material and product manufacturers
Proximity
This began with years of proximity—designing a student living tower in fast growing university market. This exposure teaches you something a brief never can; what actually makes someone feel at home, on repeat, for a population that never holds still.
Designed for Student Life. The prototype does not require behavior change, it meets students where and how they live—health, durability, and daily routines are embedded int the architecture. The resident doesn’t need to understand the system for it to work.
Rather than asking students to change their behavior, the architecture changes the conditions around them.
The Service Band & Living Field. Kitchen, bath, laundry, storage, and infrastructure consolidate into a single architectural layer—the Service Band. Freed from that, the rest of the unit becomes the Living Field; one open, daylight room for sleep, study, and rest, placed where daylight does the most work across the day.
Integrated System Daylight, airflow, material health, acoustics, storage, furniture, and daily decisions aren’t independent decisions—they’re treated as one system, resolved together, instead of layered.
Before
Burnish and Plumb’s previous identity was designed by FODA in 2012. While the award-winning design was appropriate in the moment, and there was recognition in the name — a visual refresh was needed to allow for a flexible system that more strongly aligned with its current audience and market.
