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Yurt Life
HOUSING THAT INSPIRES
INDEPENDENCE
AND CAMARADERIE.
ON-CAMPUS HOUSING CHILE HOUSING
On our Idaho campus, students live in yurts with their classmates. While in Chile, you will live in small cabańas or “domos” with 5–6
Each yurt has a restroom, electric heater and a cozy wood burning peers and a teaching fellow. The cabańas and domos have multiple
stove. Each student has their own bunk and desk area for their small bedrooms, a bathroom, kitchenette, and small common
personal belongings and comfortable study space. area. You will prepare breakfast and lunch as a small group, and
dinners are shared together at a local restaurant. Classes are held
Three fireplaces warm the Confluence Building where students in the common areas of your cabańa, in the dining room of a local
spend most of their time during the academic day. Housing restaurant, and outside on porches and by the lake. While on
multiple classrooms, the dining room, and study spaces, this Patagonia expeditions, you will sleep in tents with epic views of the
building was designed to create spaces for collaborative and surrounding scenery.
independent work. On the other side of the yurt is the Headwaters
Building where students and staff gather for community meetings,
expedition briefings, and other large group gatherings.
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