Shantou,China

The Shantou University Staff Dormitory is talent-recruitment infrastructure – faculty housing funded in full by the Li Ka Shing Foundation, a founding benefactor of the university, and commissioned to help attract and retain high-caliber faculty.
The site sits at the northwest edge of the Riyuekeng Reservoir on the university’s Sangpu Mountain campus: a narrow parcel pressed between shoreline and wooded hillside, with step-height change along its length.
A total 304 units include single-occupant studios to four-bedroom family homes, plus shared amenities – the site demanded density, preserved sightlines to water and hill, and a slope