At first glance, Vanderbilt University’s new E. Bronson Ingram College appears as if it’s always been part of the 330-acre park-like campus in downtown Nashville. Yet despite its painstakingly detailed mix of Victorian and collegiate Gothic architecture, the 205,000-sq-ft building is very much a product of the 21st century.

Vanderbilt University will take the next step in extending students’ living experience beyond the classroom and enhancing student engagement and community on campus when it begins construction in mid-May on the new Vanderbilt Barnard residential college.