Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Team: Charles Renfro, Matthew Johnson, David Chacon, Brian Tabolt, and Tyler Polich

I was involved in this project from the beginning of concept design through to construction documents and worked on all aspects of it.  I started making early models and renderings, and during SD and DD I managed the drawing set.

The SAAHB is in the middle of construction on Stanford University’s campus.  The new home for the Department of Art and Art History will be interdisciplinary hub for the arts at Stanford. The 96,000sf building will unite the programs of art practice, design, art history, film / media studies, and documentary film and vidio in a single location.  The building will also include art studios, screening spaces, film editing rooms, exhibition space, the Experimental Media Art Lab and Sound Studio, and the Art and Architecture Library.  

The buidling is a reinvention of the typical Stanford courtyard typology.  It creates two courtyards on separate levels one open to the sky, and one covered from the elements.  It consists of two program strands, one art history and one art making that both wrap around the shared library rectalinear volume.  I spent the majority of my time at DS+R working on this project and took it from concept through the start of Construction Documentation.   I started making concept models, and ended managing the DD set of drawings.