Windhover Contemplative Center
The Windhover Contemplative Center is a spiritual retreat at Stanford University that uses Nathan Oliveira’s Windhover paintings as a vehicle for personal renewal. The chapel-like Center provides a refuge from daily life and a space for quiet reflection, and creates a unified experience of art, architecture, and landscape. The rammed earth and wood structure integrates into its surroundings and is contextual in its historic campus setting. Designed in collaboration with Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture.
2024 Honorable Mention
Design Educates Award2017 Honor Award
ASLA National2016 Interior Architecture Award
AIA National2016 Honor Award
AIA Silicon Valley2016 Winner
World Landscape Architecture Magazine2016 Excellence in Architecture Award
SCUP/AIA-CAE2016 Finalist
TERRA Awards2016 Winner
Civic Trust Awards2016 Best of Year Awards Winner
Interior Design Magazine2015 American Architecture Award
The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture & Design2015 Public Space Scheme Winner
FX International Interior Design Awards2015 Interior Design Competition, Best of Competition Winner
IIDA National2015 Best of the Best Award Winner
Society of American Registered Architects2015 Excellence Award, Architecture
Society of American Registered Architects2015 Design Merit Award
ASLA Northern California2015 Merit Award, Architecture
AIA California2015 Citation Award, Architecture
AIA San Francisco2015 Honor Award
IIDA Northern California2015 Interior Design Competition Winner, Institutional
IIDA NationalStanford University
ClientAndrea Cochran Landscape Architecture
Landscape ArchitectRammed Earth Works
Rammed Earth FabricatorRutherford + Chekene
Structural EngineerAuerbach Glasow
Lighting DesignElcor Electric
Electrical Design-BuilderAir Systems, Inc.
Mechanical & Plumbing EngineerBKF Engineers
Civil EngineerLoisos + Ubbelohde
Daylighting ConsultantSalter
Acoustical ConsultantGuidepost Solutions
Security ConsultantSC Builders
General ContractorMatthew Millman
PhotographyBraden King
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