The New Scaife Hall is the home for interdisciplinary, theoretical, and applied computation, robotics, and mechanical engineering. The three-volume structure occupies a historic corner on campus, forming a contemporary gateway and new connection to the expansive and adjacent Schenley Park. In addition to world-class laboratory spaces, the program includes a range of innovative social spaces, a learning hall, a drone arena, classrooms, and faculty and staff offices.

The building site is complex, with steep slopes and adjacent historic structures. The massing, proportions, and rhythms are all informed and balanced by the historical context, materials, composition, and alignments. These existing proportions are carried forward and reinterpreted with the new Scaife Hall, with deep respect for the building’s context and capacity to sit naturally at the edge of the historic core.

The massing strategy also created a new exterior courtyard, not seen initially as possible by the University, that links multiple buildings into a flexible outdoor space that expands the opportunities for the school of engineering to gather, meet, experiment, and convene.

(Project completed while at KieranTimberlake)