KEY INGREDIENTS

HOK’s experienced team of planners, designers, architects and laboratory planners understand the unique and subtle factors that makes commercial life sciences facilities function most effectively.

These include:

• Placemaking

• Stakeholders

• Flexibility

• Spaces for Multiple Tenants

• The Scientific Workplace

• Amenities

• Sustainability and WELL Design

The pages that follow give a an overview of these key ingredients along with some featured project examples that demonstrate them.

There are a lot of different ingredients of successful innovation centers, and many ways to define success, but one of the most critical considerations is to create spaces that encourage interaction with others. You need to build active zones into the design. Connections are opportunities, so long term you need to carefully think about design. Where do people meet? Where do they interact?

Key Ingredients

Apple Campus 3

INTELLIGENT, BEAUTIFUL SITE AND AMENITIES - YOUR VALUE-ADD

A Campus as Innovative as its People that sparks imagination and promotes wellness by connecting employees with their colleagues and nature. This was the vision for Central & Wolfe, a curvilinear, concrete-and-glass campus that stands out from the cookie-cutter tilt-up ‘boxes’ that long have characterized Silicon Valley.

Leased entirely by Apple, Inc., the 18-acre campus features three petal-shaped main buildings, a standalone amenities building and a parking structure. Northern California’s unique ecosystem is on full display throughout the campus with open plazas, sports courts, trails and landscaped green spaces of redwoods, live oaks and native grasses making up more than half the site.

Key Planning +Design Considerations

Site and Connections to Other Amenities

Accessible

Concentrated