A new project led by Studio Gang will deliver Stanford University a home for the recently-established Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, called Stanford Sustainability Commons, at a site located on the western half of the school’s Palo Alto, California campus.

New York-based practices SCAPE and atelier ten will join the firm for the design of the Commons, which aims to help consolidate a group of interrelated academic disciplines in the hopes of enabling a “thriving habitat supporting the region’s larger network of living things.”

Jeanne Gang says: “The climate crisis is the most urgent challenge facing our world today. We are going to be working with Stanford to design a home for the Doerr School of Sustainability that can support the cross-disciplinary collaboration needed for generating climate solutions in all industries. At the same time, we are excited to model ways for the built environment to address this challenge head-on.”

A set of new buildings will anchor the Commons’ outdoor areas and aim for both the university-wide 2030 zero-waste goal while achieving net-zero Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gases by the year 2050. 

Studio Gang and SCAPE had also previously teamed up for a Memphis riverfront park project proposal. 

Stanford expects construction for the Commons project to begin by late-2026.