Photos: all images Andrea Gaffney, unless noted

The landscape for this welcoming law enforcement and emergency services presence is situated on the world class Stanford Campus. IA designed an entry landcape that is an inviting shared arrival plaza in the foreground of the two companion facilities of the Public Safety Building and Emergency Communications Center.

The plaza is a slow space that interrupts the sidewalk circulation along Bonair Siding Road and creates a civic yet intimate scaled entry place with shade tree plantings, benches, and seating islands that double as vehicular barriers to protect the building entry.

The plazas serve as the public entry for students and the general public, as well as integrating bicycle parking among native Coast Live Oak grove plantings that run the length of the frontage along Bonair Siding Road. The sidewalk edge is defined by a low seat wall acting as a protective vehicular barrier, and a sculptural mounding topography of native California wild lilac and coyote bush plantings between the sidewalk and facade.

The staff entry and briefing plaza is a secured courtyard space that serves multiple programmatic functions, including staff entry, public safety briefings and logistics, lunchtime dining, staff social events and barbecues, and significant bicycle parking. The courtyard is framed by a raised planter and fine-textured Palo Verde trees providing shade and enclosure.

Kyle Jeffers

Kyle Jeffers

Kyle Jeffers

 

• CAMPUS/CULTURAL
• Landscape