Recently Completed! University of San Francisco Center for Science and Innovation

INTERSTICE created an integrated landscape that relates with the reconfigured campus core surrounding the USF Center for Science and Innovation (CSI) by weaving through the new academic LEED Gold building located at the heart of USF’s urban campus. The project comprehensively redefines the existing central plaza as a bi-level, folded landscape which entangles and blurs interior and exterior space, creating multi-level access to buildings and landscape. This high-performing landscape includes significant storm water filtration areas, water re-use for native planting irrigation and ecologically intensive habitat areas that correlate with the Center’s larger pedagogical objectives. A tree-lined Campus Walk, an undulating lawn and a dining amphitheater provide a social landscape space that supports campus rituals, daily gatherings and special activities in a sustainable and supportive relationship to the larger, Bay area regional ecologies.