Taylor Design

Taylor Design is a strategy-based design firm with practices in Architectural Design, Interior Design and Design Strategy; with offices in northern and southern California.

Contact

Email: connect@wearetaylor.com
Tel: +1 949 574 1325

FOCUS ON INNOVATION

To foster a culture of innovation, science and technology facilities must reflect an organization’s mission, honor its culture, and meet its technological requirements, including spaces that can grow alongside technological advances.

FOCUS ON THE USERS

Understanding specific workplace strategies and being open to discovery in the early phases of a project helps designers and planners remain flexible and nimble in responding to a client as a singular company, and not a broad, generic industry.

FOCUS ON TECHNOLOGY

Advanced technology is changing the design of science and technology facilities and operations, requiring careful coordination with the building infrastructure as well as the research culture, ensuring spaces are flexible enough to evolve with technological change.

Our Experience

Our approach

Each company’s requirements in those areas are different. A thorough and careful look at a client’s internal culture and industry—in order to develop a deeper understanding of needs, current methods, and future possibilities—should precede any design effort.

UC Berkeley Foster Lab
UC Berkeley Krios Lab
UCSF Genentech Hall Cryo-EM
UCSF MSB Lab 7-8

DESIGN FOR SCIENCE

With highly specialized functions, equipment-intensive workspaces, complex building infrastructure, expansive research communities, and increasingly constrained economic resources, the design of science and technology buildings requires specific, expert knowledge.

HIGH-TECH WORKPLACE

Our process employs a number of techniques to increase long-term efficiency and flexibility and to contain costs, including modular planning, balancing open and specialized labs, shared support spaces, and clustering lower-intensity spaces such as offices.