The Housing Dining Hospitality Building is the administrative home of the University of California San Diego’s Housing Dining Hospitality group and the campus’ central catering kitchen. Here everything to do with food or housing on campus is handled. The building overlooks North Torrey Pines Road and presents an open and inviting face to the community despite being surrounded by much taller structures. The distinguishing feature of the building is its rippling glass screen wall that hangs free of the building and provides thermal and sun glare protection to the spaces inside and runs free of the building at the top to make a wind break to protect an open terrace. The screen wall is subtly faceted in three water colors to catch daylight across the day and suggest the character of sunlight across a body of water. A perfect metaphor for a structure with coastal views.

Project Information

Project Address: 

Scholar's Drive just south of La Jolla Shores Drive

Project Owner/ Developer: 

UCSD

Owner Contact Name/ Email: 

Mark Cunningham/ mcunningham@ucsd.edu

Project Architect/ Designer: 

Studio E Architects

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