Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Shearer Hall

Durant, Oklahoma

The SOSU student housing project, Shearer Hall, is a new construction, three-story facility located on the site of a previous student dorm building. The new facility is designed to incorporate market rate apartment amenities while maintaining a central campus location in order to foster traditional campus life. The design team created a building form whose scale works in context with existing campus architecture to enhance existing campus spaces and share the same exterior materials palette as the new campus police station, football stadium and student union building. The end result is a building that achieves a harmonious sense of place in the existing campus community.

Shearer Hall is comprised of six one-bedroom units, 18 two-bedroom/two-bathroom units and 69 four-bedroom/two-bathroom units for a total of 318 beds. The project has a student lounge, study area and break out room on each of the three residence floors as well as a grand community room with full kitchen on the first floor for a total of approximately 97,000 square feet.