The Haas School of Business was the final work by renowned architect Charles Moore.  While revolutionary among business schools for setting a collaborative and values-driven tone, it is being expanded and renovated after only 15 years.  To update Moore’s intimate courtyard spaces, GLS focused on flexibility so that the business school could accommodate commencements and fundraisers, improving the heart of the school as a civic and collegial space. The original organically shaped, elevated concrete planters were replaced with a richly detailed 4-part patchwork of plantings, stone, concrete pavers and stainless steel letters.  The new open layout, allows moveable furniture and 12 large Red Maples to be placed into the fractured grid pattern of black granite, creating intimate spaces without inhibiting the temporary placement of event structures. The apparent simplicity of the plaza conceals elaborate Silva Cell detailing below the surface of the 14,000 sf site.