Apeiro Design crafted a layered architectural lighting strategy to support both daytime vibrancy and nighttime ambiance. Dorms feature pod-style layouts with four rooms clustered around a collaborative area and restrooms to encourage social interaction. The two-story central dining hall is filled with daylight by day and transforms into a glowing lantern at night, serving as the visual hub of this new student neighborhood. Surrounded by the outdoors, soft illumination encourages casual gathering in the courtyards and dining terraces.

To support ease of operations, most luminaires follow a familiar, repeatable vocabulary for the Facilities team. Decorative fixtures were added to key social areas, while integrated lighting controls allow for dimming and tuning of fixtures everywhere including in the dorm rooms for visually quiet hours as well more complex photosensor and time-cued automated sequences within the Dining Hall for daytime, evening and social uses of the space.

This project marks Apeiro’s 13th building project on TCU’s main Fort Worth campus, continuing our commitment to lighting that enhances wellness, connection and a sense of place.