Architecture & PlacePhotographCompleted: the amphitheater from above, with its curved timber seating set in the planting.Completed photography, August 2025, supplied by Rapt Studio

Campus amenity and food hall

Kilroy Oyster Point

A social heart for a waterfront campus.

In brief

A coastal direction connects dining, gathering and retreat through materials, furnishings and the relationship between inside and outside.

As Design Director for Rapt's scope, I led interiors and furnishings through development and construction, coordinating with the architecture and landscape teams to carry the idea into daily campus life.

Role: Design Director, Rapt Studio
Disciplines: Interiors, FF&E, Hospitality
Status: Completed

Architecture & Place
Interiors & Experience
Brand & Expression

Context

A campus that needed a reason to cross it

A large waterfront life science campus needed shared places that invited people to gather throughout the day. Rapt's scope connected lobbies, amenities, dining and furnishings with the surrounding architecture and landscape.

Over five years of design and delivery, coordination across the client, architects, landscape team and contractor was central to maintaining the coastal direction.

Aerial view of a terrace with dining tables beside the building, with campus paths, planting and glass buildings beyond. — Architecture & PlacePhotographCompleted: the food and beverage building, its terrace and the planted campus paths.Completed photography, August 2025, supplied by Rapt Studio

Insight and vision

Restaurant and retreat

The campus already had a story in its site: the bay, the adjacent marina, and the shoreline ecology. If the interiors drew from the same place as the landscape, the amenity building would feel like a continuation of the walk rather than an interruption of it.

Restaurant and retreat, drawn from the California coast. The bay and marina inform a palette of oak, hand-cut tile, and concrete, giving way to vibrant upholstery, figured marble, tumbled driftwood, and art, with subtle maritime references such as a hanging sculpture of halyards and ship rope. Double-height volumes and twenty-foot glazing connect the interior to the amphitheater and outdoor dining, so inside and outside read as one social ground.

Architecture & PlacePhotographThe food hall atrium: planting, daylight and a shared campus interior.Photography supplied by Rapt Studio

Decisive choices

The decisions that shaped the outcome

1Use the architecture

Question: How does an interior earn a place on a fifty-acre site?
Choice: Double-height volumes and twenty-foot glazing connect the interior to the amphitheater and outdoor dining, with a planted atrium at the center.
Reason: The campus is a landscape. The building should be a room in it rather than a box beside it.
Tradeoff: Large glazing and tall volumes raise acoustic and environmental demands that the interiors have to absorb.

Double-height food hall atrium with a tree in a planted bed, a patterned floor, timber ceiling and a stair. — PhotographCompleted: the food hall atrium, planted and daylit, with the stair and kitchen counters beyond.Completed photography, August 2025, supplied by Rapt Studio

Timber amphitheater steps with people seated, a stair beside them and office buildings behind. — PhotographCompleted: the outdoor amphitheater stepping down the slope beside the food hall.Completed photography, August 2025, supplied by Rapt Studio

2Program for the whole day

Question: What keeps an amenity building alive after lunch?
Choice: Grab and go, made to order, private dining, a mezzanine lounge, a terrace, and a pre-function bar, open to tenants and the public.
Reason: A food hall that only serves lunch empties the campus by two. A building with a bar, a lounge, and events gives people a reason to stay.
Tradeoff: More program means more operations for the owner and more detail for the design team to hold.

Dining tables with woven pendant lights behind tall glass doors, with the timber amphitheater and people outside. — PhotographCompleted: the dining room opening onto the amphitheater through tall glazing.Completed photography, August 2025, supplied by Rapt Studio

Lounge with a suspended conical brass fireplace, sofas, a timber ceiling and shelving, with people seated. — PhotographCompleted: the mezzanine lounge, with the suspended fireplace and seating facing the glazing.Completed photography, August 2025, supplied by Rapt Studio

3Durability with premium detail

Question: How do you make heavy-use spaces feel considered?
Choice: Furniture and finishes that balance daily wear with details uncommon at this scale: hand-cut tile, figured marble, patinated brass, custom shelving.
Reason: Materials are the placemaking tool. People read care in the surfaces they touch.
Tradeoff: A higher bar for coordination and cost across four firms and a long schedule.

A cafe counter in pale stone with blue and white geometric tile, arched shelving and a skylight above. — PhotographCompleted: the cafe counter, with patterned tile, a curved stone counter and custom shelving.Completed photography, August 2025, supplied by Rapt Studio

Tiled wall with yellow and blue vertical stripes beneath a pitched timber ceiling, with a stair rail below. — PhotographCompleted: hand-cut tile in blue, yellow and gray beneath the atrium's timber roof.Completed photography, August 2025, supplied by Rapt Studio

Translation across scales

The direction in practice

Rendered entry with a market counter under a sign reading The Market, planted beds, and people walking through. — RenderMarketing render: the west entry and market, a casual coffee bar with grab-and-go goods.Marketing render, Rapt Studio

Architecture & Place

Place: the west entry and market, where the campus walk arrives at the building and the landscape continues inside.

Architecture & Place

Place: the triangular atrium, planted and daylit, anchoring the food hall and opening to the amphitheater through twenty-foot glazing.

Interiors & Experience

Behavior: interconnected dining, lounge, and event rooms programmed for the whole day, from morning coffee to evening events.

Interiors & Experience

Behavior: the mezzanine lounge, with a suspended fireplace and a reading room, the retreat side of restaurant and retreat.

Rendered bar with brass and marble, pendant lamps, stools, and people gathered in conversation. — RenderMarketing render: the pre-function bar outside the conference center.Marketing render, Rapt Studio

Brand & Expression

Detail: the pre-function bar in patinated brass and marble, where durability meets a level of detail uncommon at campus scale.

My contribution

Holding the concept through delivery

I led the design for Rapt's scope with the internal team, holding the concept from the first marketing renderings through construction and the photography in August 2025. The Rapt team developed the interiors and furnishings, DGA designed the buildings, Field Operations designed the landscape, and Kilroy directed the campus.

Result and status

Completed and photographed

Completed interiors and amenities, documented in August 2025 photography. Rapt developed interiors and furnishings; DGA designed the buildings and Field Operations designed the landscape.

Architecture & PlacePhotographThe food hall: communal dining beneath the timber roof.Photography supplied by Rapt Studio

Gallery

More views

Architecture & PlacePhotographDining room: a warm setting for gathering around a shared table.Photography supplied by Rapt Studio

A low building with a sloped roof among planting, with a large pink and blue sculpted head in the foreground. — Architecture & PlacePhotographCompleted: arrival across the planted landscape, with a sculpture in the foreground.Completed photography, August 2025, supplied by Rapt Studio

A long timber table with orange chairs under amber pendant lights, with tall windows and a blue and yellow painting. — Interiors & ExperiencePhotographCompleted: the private dining room with a long oak table, amber pendants and a painted wall.Completed photography, August 2025, supplied by Rapt Studio

A covered terrace with timber and metal tables and chairs and people dining, overlooking planting and glass buildings. — Interiors & ExperiencePhotographCompleted: the covered terrace, with outdoor dining above the campus landscape.Completed photography, August 2025, supplied by Rapt Studio

A person seated on a leather sofa with a root-wood table, under white dome pendants and a wall of framed animal prints. — Brand & ExpressionPhotographCompleted: a seating area with leather sofa, a root-wood table and a wall of framed art.Completed photography, August 2025, supplied by Rapt Studio

Rendered double-height food hall with a tree in a planted bed, a stair, timber ceiling, and people at tables. — Architecture & PlaceRenderMarketing render: the food hall atrium toward the stair, planted and daylit.Marketing render, Rapt Studio

Rendered dining room with long tables, pendant lights, tall windows, and a textured ceiling. — Interiors & ExperienceRenderMarketing render: the dining room, with tile, oak, and a timber ceiling.Marketing render, Rapt Studio

Rendered lounge with a suspended conical fireplace, armchairs, a sofa, and floor-to-ceiling windows. — Interiors & ExperienceRenderMarketing render: the mezzanine lounge, with a suspended fireplace and seating facing the glazing.Marketing render, Rapt Studio

Project information

At a glance

Client: Kilroy Realty
Location: South San Francisco, California
Years: 2020 to 2025
Status: Completed
Role: Design Director, Rapt Studio
Scope: Interiors and FF&E for lobbies, amenities, the fitness center, the conference center, and a two-story food and beverage building, plus outdoor placemaking with the landscape architect, across multiple buildings on a ground-up campus.
Practice: Rapt Studio
Team: Rapt Studio team
Collaborators: DGA, base-building architect; Field Operations, landscape architect; Kilroy Realty, client and developer
Lenses: Architecture & Place
Interiors & Experience
Brand & Expression

Credits

Originating practice: Rapt Studio
Personal involvement: Design Director for Rapt Studio's scope. Held the concept across design, documentation, construction, and photography direction.
Team: Rapt Studio team
Collaborators: DGA, base-building architect
Field Operations, landscape architect
Kilroy Realty, client and developer
Photography and imagery: Completed photography, August 2025, supplied by Rapt Studio; photographer credit to be confirmed. Marketing renderings by Rapt Studio.