WESTMONT COLLEGE INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP

The 44,874 sf facility consists of two dormitory buildings and two central buildings with Alaskan cedar wood ceilings and curtain wall façades. The new dormitories feature seventy on-campus housing units and shared kitchens. The central building provides a two-bedroom apartment for the residence hall director, a coffee shop, program offices, an outdoor amphitheater and several multipurpose seminar spaces. Utilizing caisson footings, post-tensioned slabs and gabion rock baskets, each building partially cantilevers out over the finish grade and between several existing trees. MATT Construction was heavily involved in the structural and site coordination to realize the design intent while also protecting the existing oak trees.