Fittingly, their work will be a homegrown highlight of the contemporary art museum. “Hoof & Foot: A Field Study” is a large video installation by San Francisco’s Chris Sollars drawing parallels between animals and students at UC Davis. Sollars interviewed UC Davis faculty members and students about stress, conflicts and other topics to form the basis of his imagery and connections to animal life. Videos, models, artifacts and drawings will shed light on the Shrem’s creation in “The Making of a Museum.” New York emerging architects SO-IL and long-standing firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson — the former is best known for Kukje Gallery in Seoul, while the latter is acclaimed for its work with Apple, Pixar and Adobe — designed the Shrem with curved glass walls and interconnected outdoor and indoor spaces. The floating 50,000-square-foot “Grand Canopy,” a perforated aluminum and steel roof that creates textured light and shadows throughout the grounds.