Eric and Wendy Schmidt Hall

The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Hall project will repurpose the former Guyot Hall, renovating the 95,000 square foot 1907 building, and include a 136,000 square foot addition to provide a state-of-the-art unifed home for the Computer Science Department and Data Science groups. The existing structure’s interior will be renovated extensively, while the historic character of the exterior of the building and primary interior spaces, such as the central Commons, will be restored to its original configuration. The building features new classrooms, teaching labs, offices, collaboration and meeting spaces, the central Commons, an indoor bike room, a courtyard and a raised terrace. 

Eric & Wendy Schmidt Hall is part of a new generation of buildings that will achieve the University's goal of accommodating a rapidly growing School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS) community in state-of-the-art, versatile facilities, reflecting the central role of engineering in a 21st-century liberal arts university. The new facilities will also serve as the primary center of technical and intellectual engineering and applied science resources serving the whole University community. While creating a vibrant new center for learning and research, the design will respect, steward, and celebrate the historic character of the existing Guyot Hall. The building will be designed to optimize opportunities of passive design strategies and will reflect an ethos of sustainability. Adjacent landscapes will be designed to maximize opportunities to demonstrate sustainable, landscape-based storm water management strategies, as well as providing numerous opportunities for study and collaboration.

Through the renovations and addition to Guyot Hall, the new Eric and Wendy Schmidt Hall will bring together Computer Science groups currently spread across 9 buildings on campus, and serve as a unified home for computer research and these four teaching programs: 

  • Department of Computer Science (COS)
  • Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) 
  • Center for Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML)
  • Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering (PICSciE)

The new building will serve as a:

  • Vibrant and interdisciplinary hub for computational thinking
  • Intellectual and physical connection to every division of campus
  • Place for serendipitous exchanges and scholarly partnerships
  • Welcoming and accessible hub to a diverse array of collaborators and visitors
  • Functional, comfortable, attractive home for the resident faculty, students, and researchers
  • Flexible and reconfigurable space accomodating growth and space evolution
  • Building advancing the distinctive mission and identity of each unit while facilitating collaboration

ACCESSIBILITY FEATURES

  • Main entry renovated with a new interior ramp providing full accessibility for the primary public level and the whole building. 
  • Accesssible entries at Level B and Level A.

 

The University is seeking LEED certification, a standard established by the U.S. Green Building Council, for the buildings.

Sustainable features
Daylight Harvesting
Energy-efficient HVAC system and controls
Energy-efficient lighting and controls
Geo-exchange Heating and Cooling
High performance exterior envelope
Mass timber
Native, adaptive, low-maintenance trees and plantings
Site lighting that protects the night sky
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Area
231,000GSF
Estimated completion
Spring 2029

PROJECT TEAM

Architect/Engineer
Architect
Builder
Role
Program Executive
Role
Senior Project Manager
Role
Project Manager
Role
Project Planner
Role
PU Construction Manager
Role
Senior Interiors Project Manager