UNIV ERSIT Y + HOUSING
UCSD ONE MIRAMAR
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION
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UC DAVIS WEST VILLAGE SQUARE
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UC DAVIS WEST VILLAGE RECREATION CENTER
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UC DAVIS SOLSTICE
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UCLA SAXON SUITES
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UCSD ONE MIRAMAR
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UCSD HOUSING + DINING
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UCSD 64O
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UCSD COAST APARTMENTS
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ABOUT STUDIO E ARCHITECTS
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DAVIS, CALIFORNIA
DAVIS, CALIFORNIA
DAVIS, CALIFORNIA
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
LA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA
LA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA
LA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA
LA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA
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UC DAVIS WEST VILLAGE RECREATION CENTER
“Studio E Architects exhibit an all too rare set of commitments and skills. They have shown a dedication to place, community, and craft and translated this dedication into eloquent projects that enhance the lives of the inhabitants. They have chosen to work from fundamental principles, eschewing the seduction of elaborate form making. Their work reminds us that the social values of architecture can be realized while satisfying the soul with the poetics of place.”
Buzz Yudell, FAIA, arcCA, 1:2001
WE KNOW UNIVERSITIES + HOUSING The work of Studio E Architects recognizes that the meaning and utility of architecture is grounded in the specificity of context. Unique site conditions inspire solutions that connect people to the places they inhabit. The focus on both physical and cultural context produces architecture that embraces everyday phenomena and rituals, expresses a richer understanding of place, and is responsive to the natural environment. In its 25 years, Studio E Architects has been a leading designer of multi-family projects, in particular for affordable housing sponsors. This affordable housing work has honed the firm’s innovative ability to make award-winning work on the slimmest of budgets and taught the firm to embrace fundamentals in their pursuit of accommodating and inspirational living environments.
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UCLA SAXON SUITES
“First, I can truthfully say that the Studio E team do ‘walk the walk’ and not only listen to the customer but go above and beyond to ensure the customer’s needs and vision are fully represented. Studio E will listen to you and will do all that they can do to find a way to meet your needs and vision. Second is their commitment to finding exciting solutions with cost constraints. Team Studio E doesn’t come in and design something that the customer can’t afford. They will bring creative solutions to the table that can be enacted.”
Mark P Cunningham, Director, Department of Housing & Dining Services, UCSD.
MAKING COMMUNITY Studio E Architects strives to create buildings and spaces that transcend program to provide comfortable places to live one’s life. Studio E understand the importance of community and connection in student life. Community results from collective spaces that invite shared participation and is emphasized by accommodating lingering and chance encounters which are so crucial to student well-being. The spaces are offered as “frameworks” to inhabit, as places of possibility.
BUILDING A TEAM Studio E Architects has a solid reputation for consensus building and collaboration. The office is routinely involved in projects where public workshops and community involvement are at the center of the design and approval process. A respect for the local knowledge base, an ability to listen carefully, and an outright suspicion of formula-driven solutions has permitted Studio E to develop ambitious plans built upon the combined wisdom of users and clients.
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UCLA SAXON SUITES
“The secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life, and in elevating them to art. William Morris
DESIGNING SMART As a result of our extensive experience—working with critically tight budgets and schedules—Studio E Architects has honed project management practices that facilitate cost containment and ensure responsiveness. Delivering awardwinning projects in these conditions requires clear, thorough documentation and an understanding of the processes and limitations of construction. We routinely receive compliments for the high quality of our drawings from public agencies and contractors.
THINKING GREEN Sustainability has been a core value from the founding of the firm more than 30 years ago. Studio E Architects is committed to reducing energy consumption through compact building planning, bioclimatic site planning, and efficient building envelope designs. We work with our consultant team to integrate highefficiency lighting and mechanical systems, to increase opportunities for natural ventilation and daylighting and look for ways to incorporate on-site renewable energy.
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U C DAV I S W E S T V I L L AG E S Q UA R E DAVIS, CALIFORNIA
COMPLETION: 2011 SUSTAINABILITY RATING: Net Zero Development AREA: 194,000 square feet COST: $27.2 million AWARDS: Global Award of Excellence, Urban Land Institute, 2013 Award of Excellence, Golden Nugget Awards, Pacific Coast Builders Conference, 2013 First Prize, Built Category, Green Dot Awards, 2012
UC DAVIS WEST VILLAGE SQUARE West Village Square forms the heart of UC Davis’ West Village community. This mixed-use grouping comprises six buildings — including 123 units of student housing, 42,500 square feet of retail space, all wrapped around the village green - an open-air “living room” where residents and visitors will enjoy West Village’s amenities and the social interaction. In designing the project, Studio E Architects sought to express West Village’s fundamental plan values of community, openness, and environmental responsiveness. As America’s largest net-zero development, West Village Square is a landmark in sustainable design. Photo-voltaic panels on south-facing roofs capture solar energy, while a variety of energy-efficient features reduce energy requirements; as a result, the community’s entire energy needs are met with energy generated onsite. Buildings employ an exceptionally well-insulated envelope, extensive shading, ventilated facades, and large overhangs, as well as energy-efficient lighting and appliances. Throughout the design process, our commitment to sustainable design was paralleled by the intention to create a vibrant and authentic community. Our deliberate placement of buildings, shaping of figural open spaces, and integration of ground-level commercial space all play crucial roles in making West Village a comfortable and accommodating pedestrian place. As a result, West Village forms a new campus destination that invites residents and visitors to linger, relax, and socialize.
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U C DAV I S W E S T V I L L AG E R E C R E AT I O N C E N T E R DAVIS, CALIFORNIA
COMPLETION: 2011 SUSTAINABILITY RATING: Zero Net Energy AREA: 13,500 square feet COST: $3.2 million AWARDS: Global Award of Excellence, Urban Land Institute --- 2013 Award of Excellence, Gold Nugget --- 2013 Silver Award, Multi-Housing News Awards
UC DAVIS WEST VILLAGE RECREATION CENTER Acting as the town hall on West Village Square, the Recreation Center provides fitness, gaming and administrative offices to serve UC Davis’ West Village community. Like the adjacent mixed-use buildings, the Recreation Center expresses the fundamental West Village plan values of community, openness, and environmental responsiveness. The structure is a simple folded plane anchored by a thermal chimney tower at the middle of the plan to provide passive cooling. Large openings to the south, shaded by deep overhangs, open the interior spaces to a large pool area outside.
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U C DAV I S SOLSTICE DAVIS, CALIFORNIA
COMPLETION: 2013 SUSTAINABILITY RATING: Zero Net Energy AREA: 150,000 square feet COST: $28 million
UC DAVIS SOLSTICE As the second phase of West Village on the UC Davis campus, the Solstice apartments are three-story walk-ups of two, three and four bedroom configurations. The buildings are grouped around courtyards and park spaces and they align to form an active urban street edge. The site reinforces social connections and chance meetings which are so important to student life. As Design Architect, Studio E created the buildings to follow the ethos of the first phase of West Village—they are designed as net-zero energy and to achieve the highest levels of sustainability. Solstice comprises 504 beds of student rental housing with recreation areas and a pool.
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UCL A S A XO N S U I T E S LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
COMPLETION: 2015 SUSTAINABILITY RATING: LEED Platinum AREA: 104,275 square feet COST: $26 million AWARDS: American Architecture Award, The Chicago Athenaeum, 2018 Merit Award, American Institute of Architects, California Council, 2018 Honor Award, American Institute of Architects, San Diego, 2018
UCLA SAXON SUITES 458 beds of thirty-year old undergraduate student housing at the University of California, Los Angeles were renovated and completely re-imagined. The existing three-story buildings were stripped to the studs and rebuilt with new exterior and interior finishes, windows and sun-shading devices along with system upgrades. The existing commons building was demolished and replaced with a new 2-story building that now offers essential amenities to students, including gathering spaces, study lounges and offices. This building, in conjunction with the newly reconfigured site, provides a new heart to the residential complex.
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UCSD ONE MIRAMAR LA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA
COMPLETION: 2007 SUSTAINABILITY RATING: LEED Gold Equivalent AREA: 420,000 square feet COST: $58 million
UCSD ONE MIRAMAR Studio E Architects designed One Miramar Graduate Student Housing, a 800bed student community on the University of California, San Diego, as part of a design/build competition. The project comprises 404 two-bedroom apartments in four low-rise buildings and a small retail/cafe, mail services, and administrative offices building at the entrance to the site linked to a 680-space parking structure sunk into the hillside. Buildings define spaces and offer distant views. The exterior walls suggest both a whitewashed village on the hill visible from the south and west and a weave of color and texture reflecting a vital and diverse student culture on court and canyon-facing facades. Buildings are placed to form an open space network of courtyards and passages that foster a sense of belonging and neighborliness.
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UCSD H O U S I NG + D I N I NG LA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA
COMPLETION: 2009 AREA: 43,400 square feet COST: $18.2 million AWARDS: Divine Detail Award, American Institute Of Architects, San Diego, 2010 Orchid for Architecture, San Diego Architectural Foundation, 2010
UCSD HOUSING + DINING Studio E Architects’ design for the UCSD Housing & Dining Services building resolves a sequence of specific responses to the project’s program and coastal setting. The 43,400 square-foot building has three distinct identities: it serves as an active 13,000 square-foot main catering kitchen, a prominent and welcoming home for the campus’ staff, and a series of inviting rentable meeting and event spaces. In consideration of the building’s multiple purposes, as well as its location, our design expresses varied degrees of transparency and opacity. The catering kitchen, requiring service yard access on the north, is concealed along the western public frontage and the southern campus-connecting ramp. The Housing and Dining offices, in contrast, are positioned to achieve necessary visibility and direct campus and public access. Studio E’s design references the project’s coastal location through rough boardformed concrete walls at the lowest level, a sheltering overlook pier above a grottolike entrance, a west-facing site stair whose zigzagging form echoes local bluffclimbing beach flights, and an ocean-colored glass wall. Meeting, conference, and event spaces are raised to upper levels, where the west-facing glass screen wall affords ocean and sunset views while confronting intense solar gain.
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UCSD 64 DEGREES LA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA
COMPLETION: 2014 SUSTAINABILITY RATING: LEED Gold AREA: 23,000 square feet COST: $12.8 million
UCSD 64 DEGREES Located at the heart of student residences in Revelle College, this reimagined facility is a complete renovation of the 1966 Revelle Dining Commons, the campus’s original dining destination. In addition to transforming a dated “cafeteria”-style facility into a modern, vibrant dining venue, combined with a market and café, 64 Degrees creates a place for the Revelle College community to embrace as a hub for congregating and socializing. In designing the project, Studio E Architects sought to create a dining experience that brought the kitchen from the back of house to the front of house, integrating the experience of eating with the preparation of the food. Several exhibition food platforms distributed throughout 64 Degrees provide a unique and interactive experience. By inserting natural light, appropriately-scaled design elements, and activity in the right places, our design organized the existing building’s disparate spaces into one cohesive dining environment. In the sunny, south-facing “front yard”, porous-paved dining areas are shaded by a bosque of palo verde trees, while oversized umbrellas provide relief from the sun on a “beach blanket” of rubber play surfacing with lounge chairs. The space functions as an important crossroads of pedestrian routes within Revelle College and organizes this circulation while providing areas for gathering and treatment of stormwater within the planting areas.
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UCSD COA S T A PA R T M E N T S LA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA
COMPLETION: 1997 AREA: 92,000 square feet COST: $2.5 million
UCSD COAST APARTMENTS One hundred and six units of thirty-year-old student housing at the UC San Diego were completely renovated in 1997 at a cost of $2.5 million. The apartments received new finishes, cabinetry, plumbing, electrical and data upgrades. The buildings were reconfigured to provide private balconies, terraces and entrances instead of the motel-like gangways designed into the original structures—the new terraces provide ocean facing private open spaces for the units that were originally site planned to orient inwards. New site features include a pedestrian entrance way, low stone walls, one marking the entrance path terminating in a plaza, and another enclosing an ocean overlook. Finally, the Commons building was reconfigured to create a trellised gathering space for impromptu gatherings.
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ABOUT US Founded in 1987, Studio E Architects is a San Diego based design collaborative, practicing throughout the Southwestern United States. The firm’s varied portfolio—private residences, housing, mixed-use, civic, institutional, and urban planning projects—has been recognized with numerous design awards and has been featured in scores of publications. The firm is led by four principals: Eric Naslund, FAIA, John Sheehan, AIA, Maxine Ward, AIA, and Mathilda Bialk, AIA. Studio E Architects’ work recognizes that the meaning and utility of architecture is grounded in a building’s physical and cultural context and thus responds to the natural environment, connects people to the places they inhabit and expresses a richer understanding of its place.
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