Engineering + Research
THE PRACTICE OF
BNIM
ABOUT BNIM
BNIM is an innovative leader in designing high performance environments. BNIM’s instrumental development of the USGBC, LEED, and the Living Building concept, combined with projects, methods, and research, shaped the direction of the sustainable movement. Through this involvement, the firm has redefined design excellence to elevate human experience together with aesthetics and building performance. In practice, this multifaceted approach to design excellence has yielded national acclaim, including the AIA National Architecture Firm Award, and consistent design recognition nationally and internationally. BNIM is Building Positive, a notion that describes how our practice leverages its collective capacity for design thinking to solve issues at every scale in a way that is focused on building the positive attributes of community and the built environment. Through an integrated process of collaborative discovery, BNIM creates transformative, living designs that lead to vital and healthy organizations and communities.
Engineering Research
THE PRACTICE OF BNIM
Designing for the Future of Engineering Research
Engineering education and research facilities serve a wide crosssection of needs and sub-disciplines. They provide a safe, inspiring environment for exploration and discovery. They act as a tool for faculty, researchers, and students. They serve as a powerful asset for institutions. And they constantly evolve to accommodate the important work that takes place within them. In the past two decades, several important trends have emerged that are transforming the way we design interdisciplinary engineering research facilities of the future:
Academic Spaces that Amplify National Recognition
Education and research buildings must elevate and advance the work of the teams within, while also supporting their productivity and vitality. The design of a world-class research and education facility can yield transformational results for an institute’s recruitment and retention efforts.
Transparency
A building designed to encourage transparency will showcase the institution’s scientific endeavors and achievements. This may involve digital displays, interior glazing, display cases, scientific artwork, graphics, and even building form to inform and educate on the function and scientific disciplines housed within.
Centralized Hubs of Scholarly Activity
Contemporary scientific instructional and research should activate the buildings they occupy. By providing intentional, strategically located spaces - small nooks, stairway landings, breakout lounges, small libraries, conference rooms - everyday user activity can spur chance
interaction and meaningful collaboration between traditionally disparate building user groups. These “collision spaces” are small but impactful solutions that promote cross pollination of knowledge and ideas.
High-Performance Integrated Design
Science and engineering buildings are extremely energy intensive, and today’s design solutions reflect a highperformance integrated approach. In particular, programming-driven MEP strategies create energy efficiency, maintain critical environmental conditions and optimal human health, comfort, and safety for occupants.
Adaptable Facilities
Academic facility design continues to evolve with a need for highly flexible and adaptable buildings to support future needs and goals. Central to the longterm success of many of BNIM’s projects is the concept of “long life, loose fit” — addressing future, unanticipated needs through the programming of space, adaptable infrastructure, and the overall design of buildings.
Seamans Center for the Engineering Arts and Sciences
South Annex Addition
University of Iowa, Iowa City
The South Annex Addition to the Seamans Center for the Engineering Arts and Sciences will build a larger community within the entire engineering facility and foster innovation in teaching, learning, and discovery.
The Annex includes new formal and informal research spaces, varied sizes of active learning classrooms, student development and tutoring spaces, and the creation of a new common lobby centered around a technology-rich student project design studio that brings the entire engineering community together. Renovation work in the existing building includes creating an Engineering Learning Commons adjacent to the engineering library space. The Commons will include flexible study and presentation spaces for faculty and students use.
68,094 SF Completion 2017
SUSTAINABLE / NOTABLE FEATURES
• 68,094 SF facility
• Building will serve as a living laboratory that creates an attitude of discovery and innovation.
• The majority of the building is elevated above the grade plane to increase open space on the urban site and to create covered bicycle parking.
• The elevation also allows air and light to create a more habitable urban environment on a congested campus site.
• Above and beyond approach to universal design includes a digital kiosk with assistive learning technology and a comprehensive wayfinding strategy.
• The site / building design offers 24/7 accessible access up and down a steeply sloped site, which was previously a significant barrier in a heavily utilized pedestrian path.
• Prior to the project, stormwater would run-off down a steep slope to the storm sewer and near by river. The site now incorporates biocells to slow, cool, and clean storm water.
• Native landscaping and ground covers also create a more sustainable site condition.
• There is enough detention to reduce the postdeveloped 100-year storm to be less than half of the pre-developed rate.
undergraduate enrollment has doubled, reaching
2,200 students since the expansion
solar roof panels with the capacity to produce
76,000
kWh of energy per year, saving energy costs
Fayez S. Sarofim Research Building
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON
Houston, Texas
The Fayez S. Sarofim Research Building, home of the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, is a comprehensive research facility on a tight urban site within the Texas Medical Center campus. This facility is designated to support research collaboration in the area of molecular medicine, particularly in genetics and proteomics and bioinformatics. The Sarofim Research Building houses dry and wet laboratories, offices, conferencing areas, a 200-seat assembly facility, and appropriate support spaces. The design creates a dynamic, interactive environment conducive to research and learning on multiple levels. From the relationship with the outdoors, to the architecture of the building, to the interior spaces, the approach considers form and function holistically, promoting the productivity and well-being of users.
229,250 SF Completion in 2005
The building incorporates sustainable design strategies at many scales. Building orientation allows optimum penetration and control of natural light in relationship to the differing programmatic elements of flexible laboratory space, support laboratories, office and common areas. The separation of office and lab elements enabled the environmental control system to capture and reuse energy that would normally have been wasted. The reinforced concrete column and slab structure employs high fly ash concrete thus reducing the upstream environmental impact of the building. The building also has a specialized facade design that responds to the Houston climate.
LONG LIFE LOOSE FIT
Flexible and Adaptable Space
∙ Flexible and Adaptable Research Facilities
∙ Institute Gateway and Community Center
∙ Designed to Encourage Collaboration
∙ Shared Support and Core Spaces
∙ Spacces Organized by Species, More Comfort, Less Energy
∙ Innovative Cascade Air Reuse System Reduces Waste and Increases Comfort
∙ HVAC Systems Deliver 35% Savings, Lighting 35%
∙ 48% Carbon Reduction in Cements
∙ 25% Construction Waste Reduction
∙ 35% Below Baseline EUI
AUDITORIUM FOR LECTURES
1. Accessible utility and service plenum
2. Modular ceiling and wall systems allow integrated lab partition installation
3. Integrated overhead hoods deliver power, gases, lighting, and other services
4. Enclosed alvoces house hoods and cabinets
5. Modular lab furniture is reconfigurable and on wheels
6. Sinks and plumbing organized along back wall
7. Flexible adaptable research lab 280 foot long
LONG LIFE LOOSE FIT
Flexible Lab Space
Flexible Research
Core/Support Lab
Collaboration
Office Workplace
The approach to the design was based on three underlying principles: place, collaboration and sustainability. The design focuses on creating a dynamic, interactive environment conducive to research and learning on multiple levels. The building is a composition of separate functional “species”. Each species is designed as a unique typology fulfilling the specific needs of its function and use. These separate building elements are then connected by an atrium and circulation spaces. Distinction between the interior and exterior is blurred by the continuation of materials throughout.
A HIGH-PERFORMANCE
BUILDING ENVELOPE with a terracotta rainscreen is designed to perform in the Houston climate
The team’s MASTER PLAN for a future adjacent academic campus positions the building as a campus hub
The location — one mile from the UT Medical School — is LINKED BY LIGHT RAIL system to the main campus
The building’s SEPARATE OFFICE AND LAB ELEMENTS utilize numerous HVAC design techniques to address the sensitive air requirements of laboratory buildings while increasing energy performance
A CENTRAL ATRIUM encourages informal interaction and provides an important community heart
SUSTAINABLE / NOTABLE FEATURES
• 229,250 SF facility
• 101,000 SF Laboratory Space
• 22,367 SF Offices, Support
• Prominent site along Bray’s Bayou in the Texas Medical Center
• Recipient of 9 Design Awards
• Designed to LEED Standards
• Conceived as a 100-year building
• Building orientation allows optimum penetration and control of natural light
• The building envelope is a terra cotta rain screen — a pressure-balanced system that reduces moisture penetration
• The reinforced concrete structure employs high fly ash concrete reducing the upstream environmental impact of the building
• The concept for this building is an “academic village” where a community of researchers, faculty, and students are engaged together in biomedical research and study
• Unique two-bar design that separates laboratory and office functions in to separate wings for energy optimization and promoting interdisciplinary collaboration
• Apex of two bar design enables informal exchange
• The Sarofim building was conceived as an organism with discrete parts or species. Each species is designed for individual functions with appropriate spatial configuration, mechanical system, lighting, furnishings, and other qualities to ensure the highest levels of health, comfort, productivity and innovation
• The Sarofim building houses dry and wet laboratories, offices, conferencing areas, a 200-seat assembly facility, vivarium and appropriate support spaces
• This facility is at once both an entire community to itself, complete with a sense of place, and an anchor for inviting future development within the planned campus
• The building is designed for long term flexibility, accommodating program changes and varying research parameters over time
• Lab spaces are open with custom designed overhead carriers to provide ventilation and a movable wall system to provide physical separation as needed
• Houses the IMM’s 10 research centers: Human Genetics, Cardiovascular Genetics, Diabetes and Obesity, Cell Signaling, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Stem Cells, Immunology and Autoimmune Diseases, Proteomics and Systems Biology, Molecular Imaging, Senator Lloyd Bentsen and B.A. Bentsen Center for Stroke Research
“The community has embraced the building as an ideal spot to host events and lectures. The water feature has been the greatest ‘discovery’ for many within the building and within the TMC campus. The south decks are now a daily place of interaction for staff during breaks.”
IRMA GIGLI, MD Director Emeritus, Brown foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine
AWARDS
2007 Merit Award, Architecture AIA Kansas
2007 Honor Award AIA Houston
2007 Texas Society of Architects Honor Award
2007 Design Award, Smooth Metal Walls Metal Architecture
2006 Texas Construction Magazine Best of Higher Education Award
2006 Merit Award AIA Kansas City
2006 Merit Award, Architecture AIA Central States Region
2005 Merit Award, Unbuilt AIA Houston
2004 Excellence in Architecture, Unbuilt AIA Kansas
“The building is a tremendous asset in the recruiting process. With BNIM’s leadership we were able to achieve a new paradigm for collaborative science and research.”
IRMA GIGLI, MD
Director
Emeritus,
Brown foundation Institute
of
Molecular Medicine
Therkildsen Industrial Engineering Building
The design of Therkildsen Industrial Engineering Building has been carefully and thoughtfully organized to foster community among industrial engineering scholars. This design creates a unique identity for the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, elevating and enhancing the student, faculty, and visitor experience with a collaborative, light-filled, and engaging spirit
79,592 SF
The design expands the ability to effectively provide innovative teaching, impactful research, and community engagement through the following design goals:
- Provide a dynamic system of spaces that integrates teaching, learning, and research in an innovative academic facility
- Create an inviting and inclusive environment that encourages collaboration among students, faculty, staff, and industry partners while enhancing the sense of community for IMSE
- Create a facility for IMSE and the College of Engineering that fosters current program needs yet is adaptable, flexible, and resilient to evolve as the challenges of industry partners, curriculum, pedagogies, and research advances.
Spaces include advanced manufacturing lab and related shop facilities, flexible labs for collaboration with industry; immersive lab incorporating digital technologies, operational research labs, and human factors research labs. Teaching spaces include active learning classrooms, computer labs, and learning community collaborative settings. Administrative space is provided for departmental, faculty, and student services. The entire facility incorporates a spectrum of social and collaborative spaces to provide a sense of community throughout the building.
Western Institute of Nanoelectronics Green Engineering and Metrology
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
Los Angeles, California
The development of the Western Institute of Nanoelectronics (WIN) and Green Engineering and Metrology (GEM) building (Phase I) on the UCLA campus represents the highest of aspirations for the research community in supporting the advancement of clean and green technologies. The building houses three primary driving Centers of Excellence in the field of nano-systems and clean technology.
The WIN-GEM facility provides space for faculty and their industrial collaborators to perform research and development in energy harvesting, storage, conservation and management. As such the facility is thoughtfully designed for collaborative, multidisciplinary research, and the building itself is thought of as an expression and armature of that research.
With Moore Ruble Yudell
61,625 SF Completion in 2014 LEED Gold certified
SUSTAINABLE
/ NOTABLE FEATURES
• 61,625 SF facility
• Active chilled beams in dry labs
• Natural ventilation in post doc office suites – mixed-mode VAV
• Demand ventilation in wet labs to reduce air change rates
• Exhaust stream monitoring to reduce fan power
• Fume hood sash management by reduced height to reduce air changes
• Dry lab return air used as supply air in wet research support space alcoves
• Grey water system - reclaims waste RO process water for toilet flushing
• Façade shading element for solar heat gain control
Human-Centered Computational Building
BNIM participated in a design charrette and conceptual design study for a California-based higher education institution’s Department of Computer Science. BNIM presented three design concepts that aimed to embody the University’s vision for a new Computational Building. The design sets high-performance goals on the path to net zero carbon, energy, and water use while emphasizing human-centered design in health and wellness, research and pedagogy, operational resilience and reliability, and equity.
For three concepts — Central Heart, Outside In, and Inside Out — BNIM presented a series of design solutions that emphasize human experience through authentic placemaking, flexible organization, courtyard activation, connection to nature, paradigmatic and responsive buildings, humanpurposed spaces, collaboration, living lab and pedagogy, and research.
Study Completed in 2020
Collaboration spaces form the interface between offices along the south façade and research spaces to the north, concentrating building movement and supporting a central heart of activity.
2. Outside In
Research spaces open up onto an exterior deck, bringing the outside in. Activity spills out from the research spaces to these collaborative areas which activates the street edge.
3. Inside Out
All primary circulation with specific collaborative spaces are pulled to the exterior, turning inside out. This reduces indoor conditioned space, decreasing energy consumption and future operational costs.
1. Central Heart
University of Iowa Informatics Initiative (UI3)
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
IOWA CITY, IOWA
The University of Iowa introduced a campus-wide initiative designed to foster collaborations and cultivate research opportunities across disciplines. The initiative joins the computational discipline with the humanities, arts, natural, biological, health, and social sciences to identify and resolve current issues. Researchers and faculty who work within these different disciplines needed a place that would allow them to connect and collaborate, to work together, and to work privately.
The University of Iowa Informatics Initiative (UI3) creates a physical and intellectual home for the initiative within existing building shell space at the university. Establishing a culture and identity for this new collaboration was an important goal of the project. While the individuals who are part of the program are dispersed across campus, a common ground is found in the work they do. By offering a rich variety of functional opportunities, the design ensures users are attracted to the space and utilize it regularly, regardless of where their departments are located. The space draws together these individuals, who share a common pursuit, creating opportunities that lead to academic collaborations and innovations.
11,913 SF Completion in 2016
During the programming process, BNIM and the University of Iowa determined that people – and the connections between them – were the most important element that a space can offer. The design was shaped by organizing a spectrum of spaces to support various modes of work, optimize interactions, interweave relationships, and promote visual connections while respecting appropriate levels of privacy. The diverse disciplines and backgrounds within the initiative necessitated a single unifying element. Design cues were drawn from genetics – a human data element and common thread that binds these disciplines together. Visual connections through and across the entire space inspire curiosity and promote engagement.
Bent linear ribbons, inspired by the graphic linearity of human genome mapping and the ribbon-like structure of DNA, serve as a spatial organizing device. This unifier was interpreted in various scales, from the organization of spaces united by contiguous bands, to surface treatment such as glazing frit patterns. The frit pattern, which provides privacy and writable space at key areas, was based on the pattern of the human genome and developed using digital algorithms. Within the pattern itself the coded message can be found, revealing the name of the initiative. This series of consistent gestures at various levels and scales establishes and reinforces a sense of place and identity unique to the program.
A central core of collaboration rooms spans east-west in the space, woven together with a series of bent wood ribbons. Secondary ribbons rendered in white capture and organize smaller scale collaboration and focused workspaces adjacent to those contained by the central spine. These spaces take advantage of their proximity with connectivity to the central spine as well as views to the exterior.
AWARDS
IIDA Mid-America Design Awards
Gold Award, Higher Education, Research 2017
“Working with BNIM was great. They were very collaborative and worked with us to help us better define our needs and vision, and then they came up with a wonderful design. We wanted to create a space that would help us bring the Informatics community together — from all corners of the University, from art to medicine — to foster collaborations, scholarship, and training.”
GREGORY CARMICHAEL Director
University of Iowa Informatics Initiative
Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - COLUMBIA COLUMBIA, MISSOURI
The Life Sciences Center at the University of Missouri - Columbia unites faculty and students from several schools and programs into one, collaboratively focused research center. The Colleges of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, Arts and Sciences, Veterinary Medicine, Human and Environmental Sciences Engineering, and the School of Medicine engage in joint research into genomic and biomolecular structures. State-of-the-art laboratories, shared meeting areas and public spaces provide unsurpassed opportunities for interdisciplinary biomedical science and agricultural biotechnology research.
239,714 GSF Completion in 2004
With the idea that a healthy building illustrates the principles that life sciences embody, research, teaching and education converge in naturally daylit laboratory spaces, generous meeting areas, and informal teaming areas located off of the primary circulation spaces. The building features a central daylit atrium, strategically connecting the wings in an east-west direction to create a lively corridor called ‘Main Street.’ The naturally lit atrium, which centralizes faculty and research offices, a café and one of the reading rooms, encourages and facilitates interaction among users.
“The Center is kind of a catalyst that brings people together doing such different things.”
MANNIE LISCUM BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES PROFESSOR AND ASSOCIATE DEAN OF GRADUATE STUDIES
“Most researchers would argue that, when it comes to science, collaboration is central to success. Just over a decade ago an MU experiment in brick and mortar set out to prove it. Today the Bond Life Sciences Center has largely confirmed its planners’ vision, demonstrating to scientists and scholars here at MU and around the world that, if knowledge is power, then shared knowledge is power2.
“This place is intended to be a coordinated organism, not a hotel for good scientists,” said Jack Schultz, director of the Bond LSC since 2007. “It’s been a fascinating but slow process to see investigators gain from working with others outside of their field who overlap in an aspect of their research.”
Both the National Academy of Sciences and National Institutes of Health (NIH) agree this sort of convergent science, cutting across disciplines, is the future. The former highlighted the Bond LSC in a 2014 report as among those programs that excel in being exceptionally “nimble in their focus” of steering faculty toward interdisciplinary convergence and novel research approaches.” Excerpt from Discovery - Bond Lifescience Center Annual Report 2014
"The Building has been set up with lots of what we call ‘collision zones.’ In Chemistry, when things collide you get a reaction. When two people can interact in a hall or corner and discuss an idea, that's when you get new ideas and new things happening. Students see how this happens and they grow and thrive under this."
DR. G. MICHAEL CHIPPENDALE
PH.D. PROFESSOR EMERITUS
AWARDS
2005 Honor Award, Excellence in Architecture
AIA Kansas
2005 Merit Award
AIA Mid-Missouri
The MU Bond Lifesciences Building has since 2016 received federal competitive grants totalling -
FY18
FY19
FY20
$13.3 M
$16.8 M
$15.2 M
Overall, with approximately 3% of faculty at MU, the LSC generates approximately 10% of competitively funded research expenditures at MU.
To Veterinary Medicine Campus
Student Housing
Sanborn Field
SECTION - ATRIUM
SECTION - LABS
Blunt Hall Renovation and Addition
MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY SPRINGFIELD,
MISSOURI
MSU Roy Blunt Hall houses the College of Natural and Applied Sciences Program (CNAS) and serves as a hub for the College. The addition and renovation will bring together the three primary departments of Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Geography, Geology & Planning (GGP), while improving flexibility and usability of spaces within Roy Blunt Hall. The addition and renovation are envisioned to include state-ofthe-art, flexible teaching and research laboratories for each of the three departments. Roy Blunt Hall will serve as a welcoming place for current and prospective students while showcasing the research and programs within. Human-purposed design strategies will include increased access to natural light, connections to nature, outside views, and more comfortable, usable spaces.
239,714 SF
The journey of Roy Blunt Hall on MSU campus bookends the history of BNIM and holds a special significance for our team with one of the building’s original designers being Tom Nelson, a founding principal of our firm. Tom contributed to the design of the original building in 1971 while with Kivett & Myers. Five decades later, BNIM is collaborating with MSU on the renovation and addition that will lead Roy Blunt Hall into its next era of learning, teaching, and research. BNIM is working closely with MSU to reinterpret the architectural cues of the existing building in a contemporary way. With intentionality and respect for its legacy and surrounding context, the MSU Roy Blunt Hall addition and renovation will reflect the notable features that make the building a unique part of MSU campus architecture while also addressing modern needs of the CNAS programs to strengthen Roy Blunt Hall’s presence on campus. Building on the 2020 CNAS Master Plan conducted by MSU as well as the goals and needs identified by CNAS stakeholder groups, the design for Temple Hall was informed and inspired by three primary themes: Enable Research, Increase Visibility for Science, and Provide for the Future of CNAS and Temple Hall.
The needs, goals, and feedback from the CNAS and University community was integral in shaping the future vision for Roy Blunt Hall. BNIM’s design team worked attentively with a core team of MSU representatives including MSU’s Dean, university architect, project manager, facilities staff, and department heads from the CNAS program. As equally essential to the design process were the perspectives and voices of the students, faculty, and researchers as part of the CNAS community who will engage with Roy Blunt Hall each day to fundamentally determine the framework of the design.
BNIM held an open house for students and faculty; met with MSU’s advisory groups focused on sustainability, equity, and ADA guidelines; and held in-depth discussions with researchers and our team’s laboratory consultant to understand specific research and laboratory requirements in order to guide design development. Part of BNIM’s engagement process involves the use of collaborative, online whiteboards, such as Miro and Mural, to have real-time discussion, conduct workshopping, and trial ideas with clients and collaborators.
FASTER Feasibility Study and Programming
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
MANHATTAN, KANSAS
This comprehensive master planning and programming study evaluated over 1.1M SF of existing facilities. BNIM worked with 11 departmental groups to create a phased concept design with the overall goal to elevate the College of Agriculture from a top 20 program into the top 5 national ranking. The study identified additional space needs for research, teaching, offices, and greenhouses. The proposed expansion of facilities will be addressed by building two new buildings, a set of three new greenhouses, and renovating existing research and teaching space to provide opportunities for contemporary models of research, teaching, and collaboration.
385,000 SF Completion in 2015 (study)
Advanced Technology Laboratories
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
IOWA CITY, IOWA
With the University of Iowa’s Computer Science Department currently dispersed across several buildings on campus, the Iowa Advanced Technology Laboratories (IATL) building Renovation and Addition will unify and create a new identity for the Department.
The renovation and addition will seek to activate University resources to transform the existing building into a new home for Computer Science, featuring spaces designed to inspire and facilitate connections, accommodate growth and flexibility, and support innovative teaching, learning, and research activities.
The project consists of approximately 17,800 SF renovated space, comprising the first two floors of the existing west wing alongside a new addition of approximately 19,000 SF. The newly planned addition was conceived as part of the original design by Frank Gehry that was never completed with the exception of an abandoned structural foundation system. This existing structural foundation is intended to be utilized for the footprint of the new addition in concert with a mass timber structure in support of a low carbon strategy and holistic sustainability program.
Student collaboration spaces along with connected meeting and support spaces serve as the heart of the new home for Computer Science with a goal to encourage interaction, increase access to people and resources, and foster engagement in computing and algorithmic thinking — creating an environment where students and faculty want to be.
A range of flexible teaching and research labs support the multi-disciplinary work within the department and the ability to adapt to evolving technology, practices and research needs. A new departmental gallery establishes presence and identity upon entrance into the facility, while departmental offices help anchor central gathering spaces, and faculty and graduate workspace is distributed for lab adjacencies.
Pacific Center Campus R & D Building
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA
After completing the Pacific Center Campus Master Plan in 2012, BNIM lead the design of a two-building expansion. The buildings are integrated into an environment that is organized around public spaces and amenities, and clear circulation systems. The Research and Development (R+D) Building accommodates office and laboratory spaces. Interior environments focus on enhancing surroundings to be more comfortable, inspiring and healthier. Laboratories are centrally located with adjacent workplaces for teams to interact seamlessly with the research environment. Conference spaces are located at the building’s central gathering space to foster interaction, collaboration and innovation
357,000 GSF
Completion in 2015
LEED Gold Certified
38
Predicted Net EUI
48% Predicted reduction from national EUI for building type
1 Operable windows faciliate natural cross ventilation
2 Full glazing to maximize diffused north daylight
3 Horizontal louvers shade south daylight and reflect diffused daylight deep into the space
4 Bioswell treats roof top water
5 Concrete thermal mass structrue
6 Reflective roof designed for future pv
7 Modular wet land for site water runoff
8 Vav mechanical system
9 Drought tolerant plantings
10 Narrow floor plate to mazimize natural ventilation and daylight penetration
16-18% productivity increase
84%
Floor area or occupant work stations with direct views of the outdoors 35%
Floor area or occupant work stations within 30’ of operable windows
84%
Floor area or occupant work stations achieving adequate light levels without the use of artificial lighting
95% regularly occupied spaces with access to daylight + views
Bioswale treats roof top water
Modular wet land treats site run off water
Diverting materials from the waste stream was a priority. The following metrics also speak to this priority:
32%
Building materials with recycled content (by cost)
27%
Building materials with regional materials (by cost)
97% Virgin wood products in the building that use FSC wood
76%
Construction waste diverted from local landfills
Pacific Center Campus Amenities Building
san diego, california
The Amenities Building is a highly interactive, porous facility that promotes connection on multiple scales: it connects employees to services that support wellbeing; it connects employees to one another; and it brings together the existing buildings within the PCCD.
The program was derived from a visioning process that identified employees’ priorities and combined dining, training, exercise, and wellness services into a single building. On the ground level, the hall within the dining center is a transparent pavilion with connections to dining terraces on the courtyard. The conference center, which also opens to the courtyard, is a multifunction event space that can be divided into separate rooms. To maximize the amount of usable area on the campus, the design team considered the space between each building, extending the campus experience to the outdoors. An expansive courtyard begins on the ground level and slopes upward to the green roof. The upper level is accessible via the green roof, which contains the campus garden and is available for outdoor classes from the adjacent fitness center. The wellness center is an environment designed to inspire the next generation of health centers, with an optometry exam room and store, physical therapy rooms, acupuncture, meditation spaces, a telemedicine room, a triage room, and exam rooms.
50,000 GSF
Completion in 2015 LEED Gold Certified
1
2
DAYLIGHT
1 narrow floor plate to moximize natural ventilation and daylight penetration.
2 full glazing to maximize diffused northern daylight.
3 angle of sun in the summer.
4 angle of sun in the winter.
5 horizontal louvers shade south daylight and reflect diffused light deep into the space.
6 light sensor
7 unobstructed views out
8 daylight responsive artificial ligthing
NATURAL VENTILATION
1 narrow floor plate
2
3
4
The campus is designed habits. The dining center an abundance of healthy produce from the campus
designed to promote healthy eating center features global cuisine and healthy food options, including fresh campus gardens and orchards.
The campus takes advantage of a variety of outdoor spaces, including recreational play areas, sports fields, meeting and collaboration spaces, and places for exercise, meditation, and recharge.
AWARDS
2018 MERIT, DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARDS
Research and Development Building
AIA California Council
2018 HONOR, LANDSCAPE DESIGN AWARDS
ASLA Southern California
2018 AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Research and Developement Building
The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies
2017 AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE AWARD
The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies
2017 SPECIAL MENTION
Amenities Building
Architizer A+Awards
2017 MERIT AWARD, ARCHITECTURE
DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARD
Amenities Building
AIA Kansas City
2017 MERIT AWARD, ARCHITECTURE
DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARD
Amenities Building
AIA Kansas
2017 HONOR, EXCELLENCE IN DESIGN
Amenities Building
AIA Iowa
2017 MERIT, DESIGN AWARDS
Amenities Building
AIA California Council
2017 COMMERCIAL STRUCTURE AWARD
Amenities Building
American Concrete Institute, San Diego Chapter
2017 MID-AMERICA DESIGN AWARDS (MADA)
CORPORATE-LARGE, GOLD
Amenities Building
International Interior Design Association (IIDA)
2016 BEST PROJECT, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA OFFICE/RETAIL/MIXED USE
ENR California's Best Projects
2016 HONOR AWARD, EXCELLENCE IN ARCHITECTURE
Research and Development Building
AIA San Diego
2016 MERIT, DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARDS
Research and Development Building
AIA Kansas City
2016 MERIT AWARD, EXCELLENCE IN ARCHITECTURE
Amenities Building
AIA Central States
2016 MERIT AWARD, EXCELLENCE IN ARCHITECTURE
Research and Development Building
AIA Iowa
2016 MERIT AWARD, EXCELLENCE IN ARCHITECTURE
Research and Development Building
AIA Kansas
2016 ORCHID AWARD, LANDSCAPE
Orchids and Onions
2015 ORCHID AWARD, PEOPLE’S CHOICE
Amenities Building
Orchids and Onions
2015 EXCELLENCE IN STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING AWARD, NEW CONSTRUCTION
Research and Development Building
Structural Engineers Association of San Diego
2015 PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD
Research and Development Building
Structural Engineers Association of San Diego
2014 COMMERCIAL BUILDING AWARD
Research and Development Building
American Concrete Institute, San Diego International Chapter
