University of California, San Diego Nuevo West Graduate Student Housing

The site and building work in concert to create a welcoming precence at the East Campus Gateway. Transparency provides a clear signal of entry and activity to arriving residents.
Primary building entries, like the main front doors to the BRISA building, are clearly framed with color, light and transparency.
The UX Plaza features a flexible program space that connects the Nuevo West and OMS villages and provides opportunities for gaming, festivals and events.
Buildings are organized around layered outdoor rooms and are stepped from high to low allowing daylight and air to flow into residential and amenity spaces.

Health Positive Community

UC San Diego Nuevo West Graduate Student Housing

La Jolla, CA

Natural and Human Forces

A new mixed use residential community on the rapidly growing East Campus, Nuevo West is designed to serve diverse needs. The staggered façade pattern, inspired by prevailing winds, supports natural ventilation, views and daylight. Building forms bend and shift to create intersecting spaces that connect student communities.

Comfort and Choice

Nuevo West serves a blended community—including graduate students and university medical center patients and their families—with wide-ranging needs for privacy, social cohesion and connection. This symbiotic program relationship is reflected in the mix of shared amenities as well as buffered spaces tailored for individuals’ academic, social and health needs.

Uniting Communities

The design creates a vital portal to the future pedestrian and bicycle bridge that will connect East and West campuses into a cohesive whole. It also fills a missing link on East Campus, knitting communities together and providing a foundation for future development.

Client

University of California, San Diego

Overview

Mixed use residential community serving graduate students and patients of the adjacent UC San Diego medical center

Program

884 graduate student beds in a mix of unit types, 80 beds for medical center patients and families, café, marketplace, activity and study rooms, music practice rooms, central plaza, community garden, outdoor cooking and gathering space, healing garden, bouldering garden, rooftop perch

Size

441,800 sf; 6.3 acres

Sustainable Metrics

LEED Gold, Targeted

Completion Date

2020

Services

Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture

Collaborators

Design-build project delivery in collaboration with Hensel Phelps

UC San Diego Mesa Nueva Graduate and Professional Student Housing La Jolla, CA +

UC Irvine Mesa Court Towers Irvine, CA +

University of Washington Maple and Terry Halls Seattle, WA +

UCLA Weyburn Commons and Paseo Los Angeles, CA +

The site and building work in concert to create a welcoming precence at the East Campus Gateway. Transparency provides a clear signal of entry and activity to arriving residents.

Primary building entries, like the main front doors to the BRISA building, are clearly framed with color, light and transparency.

The UX Plaza features a flexible program space that connects the Nuevo West and OMS villages and provides opportunities for gaming, festivals and events.

Buildings are organized around layered outdoor rooms and are stepped from high to low allowing daylight and air to flow into residential and amenity spaces.

Health Positive Community

UC San Diego Nuevo West Graduate Student Housing