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
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.
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.