Address: End of Palm Drive in front of the church in the main quad (Park at the Oval)
Question:Stanford University has an historical sense of place that has been carried forth by each new building and its materials. Write about one or more of the buildings we look at and how well or how it does not respond to the sense of place that you feel when you want around the campus. Give special emphasis to the use of materials. (500 words)
3921 Fabian Way CA 94303 Meet end of the entrance driveway prior to going up the steps.
Park on an adjacent street
Question:The Center is a collage of different functions, users, materials. Do you think the architects succeeded in weaving all these elements together? Do you think the vocabulary they chose to use was successful or should the complex been design as more than a homogeneously? (500 words)
NASA Substanability Base April 23, 2013 Address: Moffet field Airbase Sunnyvale CA
Question: The reading for this field trip made the statement that in a platimum lead building "Nothing is just aesthetic." (the classic functionist argument) In comparision there is a look to green building and its use of materials. Take one of these positions and discuss the look of the substanability base and the materials it used.(500 words)
Meet plaza outside the main entrance facing San Antonio Circle
Address: 230 San Antonio Circle Mountain View, CA 94040
Question: The architects used a very minimal material vocabulary in their design. Respond to the use of glass, concrete and wood in the building. Does the combination work? Do you see richness in their use or is the complex too cold?. If you respond negatively or positively to the building what would you think of the introduction of softer landscape into areas such as the entry and courtyard? (500 words).
Meet at the parking lot below the residences . (The first structures you will see on your right as you enter the grounds) where the private drive starts up the hill
Address: 15400 Montalvo road Saratoga, CA 95070
Question: The artist's residence's create a village but since they are designed by different architect's/artist's they are very different in appearance and material selection. Do they form a sense of community and place?. What do you think holds the complex together and/or what drives it apart? (500 words)