Project Overview
Summit served as the Master Program/Project Manager for Soka University’s new Southern California campus. This ambitious $320M Phase One project started with 103 acres of raw land and the vision to create an academic village that would promote exceptional higher learning. The academic village concept was designed to foster a natural connection with the people and their environment, both natural and man-made. In order to achieve the natural connection concept, exceptional site planning efforts resulted in a phase one campus development featuring more than 800,000 sq. ft. of buildings clustered and connected to nature by a series of intersecting plazas, terraces, gardens and colonnades.
The Phase One project program comprised 19 buildings including 8 five story student housing structures, a guest residence, 2 classroom buildings, Library, Athenaeum, Student Services Building, Student Center, Alumni Center, Facilities Building and Recreation Center with a 1500 seat gymnasium, general purpose training facility and competition swimming pool.
Client: Soka University of America
Area: 800,000 sq. ft.
Total Cost: $320 Million
Start Date: Spring 1997
Completion Date: Fall 2001
