Located along what had been the campus edge, now becoming the heart of its commons and accessible to all, Architecture Operations with JCDA were asked to create a needed site for informal gathering and interaction. The Harvard Business School Schwartz Pavilion provides both the physical infrastructure required while embodying the school’s culture and identity.

Strategically oriented within Reed Hilderbrand’s landscape design, the pavilion features overlapping canopies to both articulate the site and to leverage solar gain and shading, maximizing use of the structure through the seasons. The pavilion’s vertical surfaces are strategically operable to adapt to the needs for shelter or air, while all the pavilion’s surfaces balance light-responsive levels of transparency, diffusion and reflection, extending the surrounding trees and landscape into the structure’s materiality.