Denning House in Stanford, California Campus Building, University Building Development, Images
Denning House in Stanford, California
University Development in CA, United States ? design By Ennead Architects
Mar 22, 2019
Denning House
Design: Ennead Architects
Location: California, USA

Ennead Architects has completed Denning House, the new home for the Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program at Stanford University. Working with the University and the Denning Family, Ennead Design Partner Richard Olcott developed a design that supports the ambitious goals of the program, which brings together an international cohort of future global leaders to address complex challenges through collaboration.

Denning House is intended to be a gathering place for a community of graduate scholars across diverse disciplines, a place for them to share ideas and to develop as leaders. The new building offers a variety of meeting, classroom and dining spaces, formal and informal, large and small, both inside and outside, suitable for individual study, small gatherings or large events.
The site, at the edge of Lake Lagunita, is an unusual one: formerly a parking lot, it is surrounded by a dense forested landscape of California oaks. The building?s design takes advantage of this site condition by inverting the program, placing the large public spaces including dining, classroom and lounges on the second floor, where they take full advantage of the spectacular view. These surmount the administration, conf...