Florida International University Parkview Housing & Recreation Center | HKS Architects The Challenge To create a cohesive housing and recreation community that offers a strong visual statement for the FIU campus while simultaneously serving as a major social, meeting and physical exercise hub for students. Although the FIU Recreation and Wellness Center expansion and the nearby Parkview Housing complex were completed four years apart, designers were challenged to make the buildings look as if they were designed at the same time. HKS designers were aided in their efforts by the fact that Parkview Housing was the fifth housing project HKS had done on the campus. The Design Solution Parkview Housing is a live/learn community consisting of two, six-story buildings on either side of a main str

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