TWELVE—
University of Washington Student Housing
Young, brilliant minds need thought-provoking environments, something Grand Image's art advisors had a lot of fun delivering when called in by American Campus Communities for a Seattle project.
TWELVE at U District is a high-quality student housing community that provides the University of Washington's success stories of tomorrow with a combination of play, study, and retreat spaces. Meeting the challenge head-on, we set about enlivening this academic area with color, talking points, and one-of-a-kind artworks for sparking the imagination.
Designed by American Campus Communities
The art collection throughout is an embodiment of the buzzing energy of student life, the complex's most dynamic and bold statement encountered as soon as you step inside the building. The show-stopping custom wallcovering here wraps around the Leasing Center in four outsize panels of stunning photographic imagery that showcase Seattle and its landmarks. The hand-painted letters of the originally designed 3D wayfinding post in natural wood points students to the Space Needle, Gasworks Park, other local destinations, and, perhaps, the future.
When TWELVE'S academics are not lapping up the karaoke adulation or chilling in the common areas they get down to the more serious aspects of academic life. The fine art giclee print series enlivening the study lounge features bursts of color, these abstract forms full of movement and vibrancy. On a neighboring wall, a glorious pair of prints on plywood pull you into a world of imagination, their fabulous feathers, foliage, and flowers and explosions of color suggesting various life forms as blue cloud-dotted skies extend an invitation to dream.
Grand, outsize aesthetics and a celebration of the local feature again in the sofa-filled Rooftop Lounge where Mt. Rainier looms majestically and full of latent power behind layers of distinctive Seattle skyline.
From lobby to high-rise lounges, TWELVE promises Seattle's students a blend of the playfully dynamic with the practically domestic. By tying together the threads of youthful energy, limitless potential, and interpretations of place, our art consulting team has curated a higher education interior design ideal for young academics preparing to succeed.