The project consists of six four-story dormitories and a commons building -- containing 832 units of graduate student housing in Escondido Village at Stanford University. Focus-groups helped to determine the arrangement of living, sleeping, kitchen, bathroom, and storage space associated with each unit.

The new buildings are designed to fit into the site's existing mix of single-story wood cabins and later mid-rise tower blocks. They are grouped to create clearly defined and much used common spaces within this random scattering of earlier buildings.

The project was completed on a fast track schedule with a design-build contractor. Daniel Solomon Design Partners served as design architect for the project executed in association with MBT Architecture, San Francisco, and James Guthrie & Associates, San Mateo.