Paradoxically, Moore vividly evokes the picturesque vitality of the hill town by fronting the street façades with a varied series of stuccoed, trabeated screens, stairs, and 'arches'. "The L-shaped layout rambles through a redwood forest, widening, narrowing, twisting along its central 'street' in his version of the 'Italian hill town'. (Twentieth Century Architecture: A Visual History, 310). All the buildings are 2-storeys and located along a pedestrian street route." -Dennis Sharp. It was built to a tight budget and its architecture attempts to express a 'non-institutional' alternative type of college. It is a residential college accommodating 650 students, of whom half live in. "Kresge College is situated on the heavily wooded UC Santa Cruz campus overlooking Monterey Bay.
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