Hopkins Student Center

It’s going to absolutely change the culture at Hopkins, and spark a much more relaxed social culture on campus.

Jenna Movsowitz A&S '20

With multiple dining options and a wide variety of student resources and support services, the Hopkins Student Center will be an all-encompassing meeting space for studying and relaxing.

Through a reimagined surrounding landscape and connecting exterior spaces, the Hopkins Student Center will provide opportunities for outdoor exhibits and pop-up artistic performances while supporting university sustainability goals.

The Hopkins Student Center is situated at a campus crossroads, providing a welcoming, vibrant entry point along N. Charles Street at the east edge of campus.

Spanning two floors, the Hopkins Student Center’s Living Room & Collective is an inviting, light-filled space that offers students countless comfortable seating areas.

The Hopkins Student Center’s Pub & Coffee House is a one-of-a-kind spot, featuring a patio, garden, hearth, and bar and rivaling any lounge in Baltimore.

The Reflection Room in the Hopkins Student Center is a space for meditation and mindfulness.

The well-appointed Signature Multipurpose Rooms in the Hopkins Student Center can be joined to host large conferences and student organizations.

Hopkins Student Center: Social by design

Opening in 2025, the new Hopkins Student Center will transform the Homewood campus experience by providing enhanced opportunities for relaxation and socialization, fostering student connections, and offering larger performance and gathering spaces.

Located at the intersection of North Charles and 33rd streets, the center will be a purpose-built social destination, connecting students to one another and opening campus to the broader Baltimore community.

The building’s innovative design features an open concept “living room” as well as spaces tailored to meet the diverse and evolving needs of the Johns Hopkins community — including student resource centers and support services as well as flexible meeting rooms and multipurpose spaces for the university’s more than 400 student organizations.

Through a reimagined surrounding landscape and connecting exterior spaces, the center will also provide opportunities for outdoor exhibits and pop-up artistic performances while supporting university sustainability goals.

Building highlights:

  • 150,000 square feet of relaxation, social, and multipurpose spaces
  • 200-seat performance space
  • Media and digital media lounges
  • Multiple dining options
  • Student resources and support services
  • Flexible multipurpose spaces
  • Versatile outdoor areas

In the news:

Architect Chooses Heavy Timber Construction for Hopkins Student Center — “Timber, for a building of this scale, is almost unbeatable,” said Bjarke Ingels, head of Bjarke Ingels Group, the lead architect. “The bones of the building — the columns, the beams, the slabs — are beautiful in their own right. Without any material finishes, they are by themselves beautiful.”

Design Concept Selected for Hopkins Student Center — The concept, submitted by the international architectural firm Bjarke Ingels Group, features an open design with a large central campus living room, a variety of social spaces, themed community lounges, art and enrichment spaces, and dining options

Hopkins Student Center Plans Move Forward with Preparation of Future Site — University community will have opportunities to bid farewell to Mattin Center, Whitehead Hall this spring; Hopkins student programs and services to be temporarily or permanently relocated as project progresses

Pardon Our Progress — Johns Hopkins kicks off major construction projects at Homewood with work on the Hopkins Student Center and SNF Agora Institute beginning this summer

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