Construction on the 101,500-sq-ft building began in September 2008, and when completed in May 2011, it will bring the number of major buildings at the 5-year-old campus to four. The new facility will house the E&J Gallo School of Management and much of the university’s School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts.

Sundt圣礼的建设o was selected as construction manager for the development, which was designed by STUDIOS Architecture of San Francisco.

校园建筑师兼物理规划副校长托马斯·洛利尼（Thomas Lollini）说：“这座建筑是自校园开放（2005年9月）以来的第一座新学术大楼，这是一项计划的一部分，旨在继续发展学术空间以满足入学人数的增长。”新利18备用，设计和构造。“预计到今年秋天，我们预计将有大约4,100名学生，但是到了接下来的秋天，当建筑物开放时，我们将达到4,700名学生。”

这座三层楼的现场混凝土建筑将设有非湿的实验室，用于心理学，社会学和管理班，院长和其他教职员工的行政办公室以及一楼的学生服务。

“It was pretty important in the initial inception of the campus design that buildings bear some aesthetic relation to one another,” Lollini says. “The first three buildings all have a common language of materials and somewhat related forms and colors. This was important in creating that first nucleus of the campus.”

Lollini说，掌握了新结构建立并强调周围建筑物的这一概念，这有助于确保工作室的合同。

“One of the things that caused us to select the designer was we talked about the building as the campus nucleus,” he adds. “It fit right in. We had worked with another design firm during the study phase but it had an idea to build a four-story building when the others were three stories, and it wanted to make it red when the others were a different color. It was so at odds with the other buildings that no one really cared for it.”

Along with complementing the campus core, UC Merced officials wanted a building that was environmentally friendly – university policy requires new facilities to achieve a minimum of LEED-gold certification – and that took advantage of the natural beauty of the locale. The campus has two canals running through it and is situated near the Sierra Mountains and Lake Yosemite.

制片厂建筑校长查尔斯·迪尔沃思（Charles Dilworth）表示，重要的是要在预算范围内给大学提供什么东西。

“We felt a simple building was the way to get us where we wanted to be financially, which proved to be true,” Dilworth adds. “Our building is contextual, at the core coherent and complementary, which is much what Tom [Lollini] wanted. It has a two-story Great Room in the center, which allows us to have offices that overlook either the Great Room or the actual outside wall.”

The structure is built up to the edge of one of the canals to the north and affords a view of Lake Yosemite. Classrooms open off the arcade and face the courtyard to create an inviting public realm. The upper floors have a 2.5-story picture window looking out onto the Sierras.

两相项目的第一阶段涉及建立混凝土结构，并于2008年完成。

Sundt Leed Ap Kristy Weiland说：“由于国家资助，我们在第二阶段短暂延迟了。”“但是该项目恢复了正轨，进步良好。”