Introduction ― 4 Selected Projects ― 8
Cover: University of California, Berkeley, Connie & Kevin Chou Hall Berkeley, CA
― Education
We believe in the power of great design to shape the educational experience and inspire human success.
Today, learning happens everywhere: in and out of the classroom, on and off campus, in formal and informal settings. Our buildings foster a new culture of learning that is increasingly multi-dimensional, global, social, experiential, and interactive.
Palm Desert, California
Client: College of the Desert
Size: 13,948 square feet
Completion Date: 2014
Sustainability: LEED Silver ® Awards:
Award of Merit, Commercial National Concrete Masonry Association, 2015; Grand Award, Education Design, Concrete Masonry Association of California and Nevada, 2015; Merit Award, AIA Inland California Chapter, 2012
The anchor for a reconceived Arts District, one that signifies the creative, artistic programs located within.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
An aluminum perforated screen wraps around the projecting roof, creating a canopy that provides shade.
San Francisco, California
Client: UC Law SF
Size: 365,000 square feet, 656 units
Completion Date: 2023
A multi-disciplinary hub for education and community living in the heart of San Francisco.
The texture of the façade recalls the verticality and relief of the columns of a courthouse, an echo of the legacy of the college and the law, as well as a gesture toward the future and innovation.
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Anchored by residential life for graduate students and faculty in a range of unit types, the building features distinctive common spaces, academic classrooms, two courtrooms, and food and retail options.
San Francisco, California
Client: UC Law SF
Size: 276,000 square feet, 244 units
Completion Date: 2027
― WHAT IT IS
The Adaptive Reuse of an existing 100 year old tower will provide new units of student housing at the vibrant and diverse intersection of the Tenderloin neighborhood with Civic Center and the Courts.
San Francisco, California
Client: City College of San Francisco
Size: 102,000 square feet
Completion Date: 2010
Sustainability: LEED Gold®
― WHAT IT IS
The three-story building houses classrooms, administrative offices, specialized laboratories, computer lab, study spaces, childcare/ family center, meeting rooms, café, and other spaces for student development.
City College of San Francisco, Multi-Use Building
The building’s overall design concept centers around a full height atrium acting as the building’s north-south circulation spine.
Each floor has a unique circulation pattern with pedestrian bridges that cross the atrium, providing social spaces for student and faculty interaction.
Berkeley, California
Client: University of California, Berkeley
Size: 74,000 square feet
Completion Date: 2017
Sustainability:
Chou Hall is the country’s greenest academic building, having earned TRUE Zero Waste certification at the highest possible level along with a LEED Platinum certification for its energy efficient design.
Modesto, California
Client: Modesto Junior College
Size: 19,650 square feet enclosed, 26,000 square feet covered
Completion Date: 2012
Sustainability: LEED Silver®
Awards:
Merit Award, SCUP/AIA-CAE, 2014; Design Excellence Award, AIA Sierra Valley Chapter, 2013; Honor Award, AIA Pasadena & Foothill Chapter, 2013; Savings By Design Award, AIA Pasadena & Foothill Chapter, 2013
― WHAT IT IS Student Services Building consolidates existing programs spread throughout the campus into a one-stop-shop while allowing for anticipated departmental growth.
The 2-story, U-shaped building frames a central lobby while a celebratory canopy captures exterior space, protecting students from the hot sun and ushering them into the double-height lobby.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
The custom-perforated aluminum canopy panels create a dappled light effect simulating that of the existing trees.
San Francisco, California
Client: University of California, San Francisco / SKS Partners & the Prado Group Size: 166,000 square feet
Completion Date: 2022
Sustainability: LEED Gold®
Architectural Collaboration: Perkins&Will and ZGF Architects
The center brings together clinicians and researchers from multiple disciplines to address the most pressing needs in psychiatry, psychology, and related fields.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
The building’s design and sustainable elements support the holistic approach, providing a positive connection to the community that helps normalize behavioral health care.
Newark, California
Client: Ohlone College
Size: 130,000 square feet
Completion Date: 2008
Sustainability: LEED Platinum ®
Classrooms and laboratories are organized on a large flexible module which caters to modern learning environments that are moving toward active, collaborative, learning.
Furniture is on wheels so each class may rearrange as needed before and during class. Tables fold into an upward position, which allows for substantial flexibility—especially in Health Sciences where learners move from discussion around tables to bedside work with manikins.
Sacramento, California
Client: University of the Pacific
Size: 40,300 square feet
Completion Date: 2011
― WHAT IT IS
A new hierarchical learning center that organizes and draws together the existing complex of six library buildings built over a span of time.
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New main building entry leads to a large central atrium space
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The modern library is a social space where students study together in many different formats
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
The design of the library spaces reflect the evolution of the modern library as a social space — where students access information using different technology and subsequently study together in many different social formats.
Client: Confidential Client
Size: 56,000 square feet
Completion Date: 2018
Sustainability: LEED Platinum ®
Awards:
Wood Design Award Winner - Green Building with Wood category, WoodWorks, 2019; Green Building Award, Sustainable San Mateo County, 2020
Los Altos Hills, California
Client: Foothill College
Size: 3,500 square feet
Completion Date: 2007
The theater is housed in the Foothill College Student Services Building and is designed to be a community college teaching laboratory and performing arts theater.
The glass entry lobby area and post-function space offer stunning views of Los Altos Hills, while lit display cases offer a glimpse of the history of the Lohman Family and Foothill College.
Los Altos Hills, California
Client: Foothills College
Size: 40,000 square feet
Completion Date: 2007
Awards:
Merit Award, AIA-San Fernando Valley Chapter, 2005; Honor Award, AIA-Pasadena & Foothill Chapter, 2004; NextLA Citation Award, AIA-Los Angeles Chapter, 2004; Award of Merit, CCFC (Community College Facility Coalition), 2004
― WHAT IT IS Sited at the east end of the main campus, the Center acts as a “Front Door” for visitors and students and integrates the major pedestrian pathway connecting the heart of the campus to the athletic facilities.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
The new Campus Center’s design is harmonized with existing campus structures— modularized, abstracted Japanese
temples with sweeping shingled roofs.
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Program elements include: the campus “Grand Hall,” dining, bookstore, student lounge, student government, student services, meeting rooms, and outdoor space for gatherings. The dining areas open out onto an outdoor plaza to create a central gathering space with expansive views to the surrounding landscape.
Palo Alto, California
Client: Stanford University
Size: 180,000 square feet
Completion Date: 2014
WHAT IT IS Transformation of a mid-century modern building on the Stanford campus.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Lathrop’s new program principally reflects the kinds of flexibility, mobility, collaboration and interaction of today’s academic environments.
Berkeley, California
Client: University of California, Berkeley
Size: 110,000 square feet
Completion Date: 2025
― WHAT IT IS
Sited next to Haas Pavilion, the new practice facility provides much needed space for student athletic programs and services.
Client: Samuel Merritt University
Size: 225,000 square feet
Completion Date: 2025
Oakland, California ― WHAT IT IS A new 10-story health sciences education tower in Downtown Oakland.
The distinctive building design creates a sense of identity for the school, putting a clear stake in the ground for SMU in downtown Oakland.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
A variety of program uses are held together by the social, collaborative spaces that are also expressed on the building exterior.
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