Project Summary

The Charles David Keeling Apartments (originally known as Revelle College Housing) helps meet UC San Diego’s need for the increasing student population and on-campus housing. Located in the Revelle College neighborhood of the University of California San Diego (UCSD) West Campus, the site comprises approximately two-acres located south of the planned Housing and Dining Administration Services Building, west of the existing The Fleet Buildings and Parking Lot P104, and east of North Torrey Pines Road and Scholars Drive South. The project includes three housing buildings (510 beds) with associated outdoor areas to promote a more usable, student friendly, and storm water conscious area.

The project included innovative strategies for limiting the quantity and improving the quality of stormwater runoff which included a bioswale along Scholars Drive South, surface detention of low flows of stormwater and an extended surface detention basin on the south side of the proposed project. The interior courtyards were also utilized for stormwater treatment with a biofiltration basin.

Creative design and construction phasing had to be utilized with the re-routing of existing underground utilities and storm drains that originally crossed through the middle of the site. Construction coordination with the Housing and Dining Administration Building was essential because of the crossing over of the limits of work and desired seamless interaction between the two projects landscape, hardscape, and building layouts.

Nasland Engineering worked closely with the landscape architect to ensure the hardscape and landscape work together and to have not only a visual appeal but a functional aspect as well. The functional aspect was the design and layout of the multiple bioswales throughout the site that helped to work the stormwater retention, treatment, and infiltration.