skidmore, owings & merrill designed the campus master plan and james corner was in charge of landscape design. the full campus, due to be completed in 2037, will span . all the buildings on campus were designed to be energy-efficient. during planning for the campus, it was anticipated that all its maintenance systems "such as heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting and fire safety" would be automated. the buildings would contain modern technology such as virtual reality sets and televisions onto which laptops could stream or project. as part of a long-term sustainability plan, 20% of the campus was required to be undeveloped or open public space, and its buildings had to be built on a 500-year floodplain, which would have a 0.2% chance of flooding in any single year. the unused southern part of the campus, hosting future phases 2 and 3, was covered with a temporary rock-and-native-plant landscape.