Page is a powerfully imaginative and collaborative architecture and engineering firm: one that’s ready for today and designed for what comes next. We pair form with function, reason with emotion, and ideas with expert implementation. At Page, the potential of what’s possible is paired with the practicality of how to make it happen. Our purpose is designing places smarter, while improving the experiences of those who work, live, and learn in them. From thought to finish, Page experts—of all disciplines—see the big picture, figure the best way forward, and deliver solutions in inventive and amazing ways. Imagine that.
Page is a powerfully imaginative and collaborative architecture and engineering firm: one that’s ready for today and designed for what comes next. We pair form with function, reason with emotion, and ideas with expert implementation. At Page, the potential of what’s possible is paired with the practicality of how to make it happen. Our purpose is designing places smarter, while improving the experiences of those who work, live, and learn in them. From thought to finish, Page experts—of all disciplines—see the big picture, figure the best way forward, and deliver solutions in inventive and amazing ways. Imagine that.
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University of Maryland E.A. Fernandez
IDEA Factory / College Park, Maryland
Think what’s possible
Page Serves The Following Core Markets:
Mission Critical Science / Technology
The sky’s the limit with exceptional design and teams that outperform expectations.
Imagine:
• Greater sustainability from the inside out.
• Inspiring workplaces people want to return to.
• Learning environments that attract world class students.
• Health centers designed to make care and lives better.
• Research centers that speed innovation from lab to life.
• Now you’re thinking... Let’s get to work.
Full-service, international architecture, engineering, and design leader
We pair the art and science of possibility with how to make it happen. Expect powerfully imaginative and collaborative architecture, engineering and design that makes you ready for today and what comes next. From thought to finish, Page experts—of all disciplines— think outside the box, figure the best way forward, and deliver solutions to complex projects in new, inventive and amazing ways.
This we believe. As agents for positive change, we are driven by the ideals we hold dear. In the delivery of our services, we are guided by three core values:
Page is known for their well-researched program-driven solutions aided by integrated multidisciplinary expertise and a strategic mindset. We bring global thinking and experience to bear on projects that build communities. Our portfolio reflects a commitment to visionary design, a record of innovation and fresh ideas and most importantly, demonstrated success with complex projects.
We develop a uniquely created design for every project that reflects the building type, client, need and location. We take pride in knowing that a Page project is one of the best possible solutions to the needs of its multiple stakeholders from owner to operator to neighbor.
ENGINEERING
Our in-house engineering experts lead development of the latest industry design codes and standards. Page engineers contribute to progress in safety, wellness, sustainability, energy and carbon neutrality, and increase our impact by working across disciplines. We use a combination of custom tools and Building Information Technology solutions to visualize and communicate how occupants and operations interface with complex integrated building and process systems. Adoption of advances in renewable energy, microgrids, Internet of Things and high-performance systems demonstrate our commitment to socially responsible design. Our multidisciplinary mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection and process engineering practice areas work collaboratively with design and construction partners to bring your concepts to reality.
The University of Oklahoma Biomedical Gallogly Hall / Norman, Oklahoma
INTERIORS
Page believes that well-designed interiors can be a critical force. They help clients accomplish their mission and improve the quality of people’s lives. Just like our interiors in our own offices, our clients’ interiors serve as positive, consistent visual reinforcements of their own cultural identity. By combining the skills of our interior designers with those of our architects, planners, engineers and visualization specialists, we offer our clients a range and quality of single-point responsibility found in a few other places. Our interiors services range from programming, space-planning and officing studies to the selection of furnishings, finishes and artwork.
PLANNING / URBAN DESIGN
We help our clients evolve, grow and prosper because our process is informed by research, cutting-edge technology tools and an appreciation for the unique culture of the people, organizations and places we serve. Our interdisciplinary team of master planners, urban designers, architects, landscape architects and programmers are dedicated to supporting the ongoing evolution of our urban areas, encouraging appropriate development and redevelopment suited to the particular conditions of each site we aim to transform. Through urban districts, institutional campuses, innovation districts, long range development plans, master plans, streetscapes and transit-oriented communities, our teams integrate the building blocks of community, sustainability and resilience into innovative solutions.
LAB PLANNING / DESIGN
Page specializes in challenging projects for demanding clients throughout the globe. Laboratory facilities are among the most intricate and complex projects. The unique challenges posed by highly toxic petrochemical corrosion labs, sterile environments for pharmaceutical manufacturing, biohazard high-containment suites and precise environmental control of animal laboratories are commonplace obstacles overcome by our dedicated technical team of architects and engineers every day. Page has specialists equipped with a thorough understanding of the safety standards and scientific equipment requirements foundational to the success of all laboratories.
BRANDING AND GRAPHICS
Our visual identity and experiential designers create brand identities and graphic designs that support how places and environments are experienced. The orchestration of 2-dimensional design work including typography, color, imagery, form, technology and, especially, content, forms this basis. Examples of this work include wayfinding systems, architectural graphics, signage, exhibit design, retail design and themed or branded spaces. We operate at the intersection of communications and the built environment. We provide architectural and placemaking visioning, and create overall design vocabularies that help clients hone in on the possibilities, character and nature of a project.
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STRATEGIES / ANALYTICS
To support clients before and beyond traditional professional services, we have a dedicated strategies and analytics team that develops and employs a broad array of tools, techniques and processes to help our clients make informed project decisions sometimes before the nature of or need for a facility or real estate project is confirmed. Our team members collaborate with Page and consultant specialists to clarify goals, assemble information and evaluate alternatives. The team’s understanding of business dynamics and organizational complexities allows them to efficiently and effectively facilitate productive discussions and target research. Custom data exploration and visualization differentiate our deliverables that help bring clients and their stakeholders into the evaluation process.
BUILDING SCIENCES
Page approaches sustainable design through the interdisciplinary lens of building sciences to create higher-performing, healthier, more resilient buildings. As one of the first signatories of AIA 2030 Commitment, we are invested in leading the industry towards carbonneutral buildings and advocating for resilient solutions to help our clients prepare for the future. We believe that intention requires rigor and through our data-driven and integrative process, we collaborate early and often to ensure designs are informed by our building performance analysis informs design. With experience across a wide range of environmental certification systems, our multidisciplinary team is well qualified to provide a holistic and comprehensive approach to sustainable design.
COMMISSIONING
Page recognizes the level of investment and importance of facilities that function as designed from the day they open. Our Commissioning service provides a level of confidence to owners and operators as well as minimizes costly construction rework. This is accomplished through a collaborative process that includes the building owner, design professionals and the general contractor under the guiding hand of the Commissioning Authority. As a Certified Commissioning Firm, we adhere to exacting, providing our clients support construction quality. We perform Testing, Adjusting, and Balancing in accordance with NEBB standards. As an independent testing firm, we have no affiliation with general or installation contractors.
PROCESS ENGINEERING
Page process engineers work with industrial and high technology clients to develop industrial and chemical processes to support their manufacturing needs. Through our work with advanced technology clients, we have an acute sensitivity to the need for precision, accuracy and compliance with each client’s unique production needs. We work collaboratively with clients using a comprehensive programming process to understand their manufacturing flow and process requirements, and design systems that ensure safety and manufacturing standards are met or exceeded. Our team utilizes industry standard process flow diagrams, three-dimensional modeling software and instrument specifications to determine the needed infrastructure for successful facility and process design, and equipment installation.
Science / Technology Think beyond the bench
EXPERIENCE AND SERVICES
Biocontainment
Vivaria
Instrumentation
Cleanroom
Advanced Manufacturing
Laboratory Planning
Building Assessment
Data Analytics
Fabrication Workshops
1M+
Our lab planners program and design more than one million SF of specialized research space annually.
What’s your thing? Nanofabrication, planetary science, or biomedical engineering? Or is it unraveling the mysteries of nature, from the fundamental laws of physics to the intricate workings of the human brain?
Whatever your thing, we’re interested in the relentless pursuit of knowledge. Let’s explore how data-driven solutions and rigorous design thinking can shape everything from transdisciplinary research to high-containment facilities. How can we help you push the boundaries of what’s known, tackle society’s biggest challenges, and empower your purpose?
Academic
Inspiring science and engineering research teams with award-winning designs.
Page is a nationally recognized leader in the planning and design of teaching and research facilities for many of the top universities in the country. Page’s experts understand that in the pursuit for innovation and discovery, highly specialized and complex facilities must parallel the unique and creative spirit of their university. Human-centered design, safety, and futureproofing are just some of the wide ranges of considerations Page incorporates to produce exceptional academic spaces.
The University of Texas at Arlington Science Engineering and Innovation Research Building / Arlington, Texas
New York University Molecular Nanoscience Laboratory Silver 7th Floor / New York, New York
University of Florida Herbert Wertheim Laboratory for Engineering Excellence / Gainesville, Florida
Columbia University Northwest Corner Building / New York, New York
NC A&T State University Engineering Research and Inovation Complex (ERIC) / Greensboro, North Carolina
Gallaudet University STM Laboratory Renovation / Washington, DC
Trinity University Center for Sciences and Innovation / San Antonio, Texas
The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School Health Learning Building / Austin, Texas
The University of Oklahoma Biomedical Gallogly Hall / Norman, Oklahoma
Colorado State University Scott Bioengineering Building / Fort Collins, Colorado
College of William & Mary Integrated Science Complex (ISC) Phase III / Williamsburg, Virginia
Lehigh University Mountaintop Campus / Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Radford University Center for the Sciences Building / Radford, Virginia
NC A&T State University Engineering Research and Inovation Complex (ERIC) / Greensboro, North Carolina
New York University (NYU) Silver Building Research
Lab Renovations and Master Plan Study / New York, New York
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Goodwin Hall / Blacksburg, Virginia
Brown University Building for Environmental Research and Teaching / Providence, Rhode Island
Collin College Wylie Campus / McKinney, Texas
Colorado State University Western Campus Veterinary Diagnostic Lab and Classroom Building / Grand Junction, Colorado
New York University Molecular Nanoscience Laboratory Silver 7th Floor / New York , New York
Virginia Commonwealth University College of Health Professions Building / Richmond, Virginia
The University of Texas at Arlington Science Engineering and Innovation Research Building / Arlington, Texas
Northwestern University Ford Motor Co. Engineering Design Center / Evanston, Illinois
Pushing the limits of what’s possible, the team designed a building that defies gravity — floating a solid box of flexible research space above two glass levels of student innovation and collaboration spaces.
Dubbed the IDEA Factory, the street level invites onlookers to peer inside and see the energy of entrepreneurship at the heart of the Clark School’s reputation. You’ll find undergraduates sharing tools in the Rapid Prototyping Lab, preparing for design competitions in the “ALEx Garage” innovation workspace, or working on next generation apps in the Startup Shell, an incubator for student-run startups. The Shell already has generated over 60 ventures, valuing $20M and growing.
Then the second floor, sheathed in glass, encourages students, faculty and staff to grab a bite of the best food on campus while exchanging thoughts in collaboration areas and conference rooms. Great ideas often emerge after faculty lunch-time presentations and create buzz in this social hub for the engineering school. Floating above these inviting spaces, the box of research labs allows walls to be reconfigured in a snap, providing the University unprecedented ease in adapting to research demands. Home to the Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center, drones zoom by, and students explore bio mimicry in the Robotics Realization Lab. Tucked away below ground is the Quantum Technology Center, hosting sensitive equipment harnessing the power of the very small.
Combined, the IDEA Factory is a place of curiosity, energy and exploration, educating 21st-century engineering leaders.
Seattle University
The Jim and Janet Sinegal Center for Science and Innovation
Discovery through science with application through engineering are side-by-side in Seattle University’s new Center for Science and Innovation (CSI). Here, students think about possibilities, make connections, and act for the good of the community. Linked with the university’s Bannan Center for Science and Engineering, the CSI is the future of STEM for Seattle University.
At the new Center for Science and Innovation (CSI) street level, makerspaces hum with robotics and 3D printers. Engineering students share ideas while waiting in line for lattes. Soon, they’ll meet with mentors from Amazon or Microsoft in high-tech huddle rooms. You’ll also find computer science students working in corporate-style spaces where teams take a hoteling approach, using available tables for workspace and lockers for storage.
The top four floors are packed with biology and chemistry classrooms and research labs. Featuring laboratory planning for the 21st century, the CSI showcases sliding glass doors that seamlessly connect teaching and research spaces. While they’re in class, undergraduate biology and chemistry students can sneak peeks at research happening right next door.
Creating connections across campus and a dynamic public concourse, the CSI offers amenities like the café, coffee shop, and radio station for all to share. A large classroom on the first floor serves as an academic space by day and an activities room by night. There is an event area on the second floor for dining and fundraising activities. A good neighbor to the community, the CSI also is home to the Center for Community Engagement supporting local children and their families. Mithun was the local / executive architect.
Northeastern University Innovation Campus
Mixed-Use Research Building
BURLINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS
At a Glance
Project Size
104,000 Square Feet
Services Provided Architecture / Programming / Planning / Laboratory Planning / MEP Engineering / AV and Acoustics / Interiors
The Mixed-Use Research Building serves as a scientific hub and cornerstone for the University’s Innovation Campus with a facility that supports an array of academic, government, and private industry research partners collaborating on solutions to enhance the capacity of communities, critical systems, and infrastructure to withstand, respond to, and recover from man-made and natural catastrophes. This building accommodates flexible laboratory space, shared scientific core facilities, high-bay makerspace containing high-tech equipment, including 3-D printers and other prototyping technology, and a conferencing center for students, faculty, and research partners across campus. It is also the home of the university’s Biopharmaceutical Analysis Training Laboratory, which offers training and experiential learning on the intricacies of regulatory considerations for pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, and other related health products.
A roof-level observation terrace allows monitoring of activities in the adjacent Unmanned Aircraft Systems (drone) Testing Facility, which is designed for engineering, prototyping, and fabrication of a range of autonomous systems including aerial drones, underwater UAVs, and autonomous land vehicles. Unique facilities include an outdoor UAS testing facility with RFI attenuation, a high bay fabrication and precision prototyping facility, and shell space for vibration sensitive research instruments. Our integrated A/E design optimizes building efficiency by providing more net assignable space while reducing gross building area. A unitized curtain wall system, prefabricated duct and piping assemblies, and pre-assembled head-end MEP equipment were installed and offer innovative, energy-saving systems to save on first costs while reducing operating costs over the life of the building.
The University of Oklahoma Biomedical Gallogly Hall
At a Glance
Project Size
80,000 Square Feet
Services Provided Programming / Lab Planning / Interiors / Structural Engineering / MEP Engineering / Design through Construction Administration
The state-of-the-art Engineering Academic Building for the University of Oklahoma is the final building to complete the Engineering Quadrangle on the Norman campus. The 80,000-square-foot building has become the gathering place for all engineering students, especially in the ground-floor collaboration spaces. This facility houses the Chemistry, Biology and Biomedical Engineering disciplines along with research labs, studio labs, maker spaces, lecture hall, research workspace and other administrative/support spaces.
The central area of activity in the Engineering Academic Building has been designed to be the ground floor collaborative space called the Living Room. Casual and team interaction, informal meetings and individual studying will occur in a variety of flexible seating and table options. The furniture allows for easy reconfiguration to accommodate student, campus and community events in the space. A grand staircase provides access to the teaching labs on the upper floors, offering students a healthy alternative to the elevator.
This academic building also houses the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, which provides multicultural programs to enhance the diversity of the engineering student body.
Page’s modernization and expansion of the Steidle Building transformed the iconic early 20th century design of Charles Klauder to reflect the stature of Penn State’s prestigious Material Science and Engineering program. By reestablishing Steidle as an inviting, state-ofthe-art destination for engineering science, Penn State can continue to innovate with exciting materials research, ranging from improving synthetic compounds to creating entirely new ones.
Page redesigned user experiences by demolishing a small 1939 addition, constructing a new interior infill structure, and modernizing the original footprint once used for mining and mineralogy studies. With its unique organizational design, the expanded and modernized building fosters interdisciplinary teamwork by organizing the functional program into flexible, thematic “research clusters.” The new, vertically stacked lab block is infused with natural light. The team also created new collaboration space by modernizing the original U-shaped structure surrounding the lab block. Floor-to-ceiling glass panels enable glimpses of hands on research within the flexible laboratories.
The research clusters support instrumentation needed for advanced work in metallurgy, ceramics, polymers, batteries, materials in medicine, and additive manufacturing, among others. On upper levels, graduate students and professors work side-by-side, easily flowing between labs and write-up space. The ground level is dedicated to undergraduate teaching, promoting excitement and curiosity about advanced materials science and engineering study.
The LEED Silver design allows the Materials Science and Engineering program to conduct impactful teaching and research while reducing energy usage — redefining what’s possible in Penn State’s portfolio of historic campus facilities.
Davis Brody Bond, a Page company has been working with Columbia University since the 1980s on their historic Morningside campus, as well as on other sites owned by the University. Over the last decade, Davis Brody Bond, a Page company has worked on the development of Columbia’s Manhattanville campus, a new graduate student campus in northern Manhattan. When fully realized, this new 17-acre urban academic environment will include more than 6.8M square feet of space for teaching, research, civic, cultural, recreational and commercial activity. Davis Brody Bond, a Page company served as the Executive Architect for Renzo Piano Design Workshop (RPBW) on the first group of buildings for Columbia University’s new Manhattanville campus.
The Jerome L. Greene Science Center is the first building completed as part of the new master plan. The nine-story building is the largest that Columbia has ever built, and the biggest academic science building in New York City. It brings together a constellation of neuroscientists, engineers, statisticians, psychologists and other scholars from across Columbia University and around the world who collaborate on research, teaching and public programming. The 458,000-square-foot building is therefore designed for the kind of social interaction and interdisciplinary thought that is essential for new ideas to thrive. The Center’s design employs a unique laboratory concept consisting of four neighborhoods articulated by two intersecting axes. On the research levels, the North-South axis is dedicated to circulation, while the East-West axis is an active area that includes meeting rooms and break spaces on each floor and a 120-seat lecture space at the top floor. These spaces make up a key feature of the research experience at the Center, encouraging collaboration among the scientists by interspersing circulation, connecting stairs, double-height spaces, and a variety of scales of meeting rooms and other interaction spaces within the research and support spaces.
Dedicated to creating the next generation of Northern Virginia’s technology workforce, Fuse at Mason Square will house graduatelevel education and interdisciplinary research in a broad range of programs, including computing, artificial intelligence, data analytics, and cyber security, among others.
Transparency, openness, and connectivity drove the development of the proposed design intended to physically and visually welcome students, educators, entrepreneurs, industry partners, and the community.
Conceived as a series of vertical neighborhoods stacked throughout the structure, Fuse’s design creates a “Main Street” or collaboration spine on each floor with a wide pathway that encourages spontaneous connections between Mason and industry partners. Cross-pollination zones also support a mixing-bowl approach to programming — intentionally interweaving Mason’s programs with partners’ spaces on every floor — encouraging connection and teamwork.
Each floor offers a loft-lab or deep lab block with column-free structural bays that meet educational and workplace needs by accommodating large classrooms and open and private offices. And a Specialty Lab core — located on multiple floors — offers a centralized resource of advanced research spaces. Creating a marquee environment for Mason and industry partners, Fuse boasts open spaces filled with daylight and access to outdoor areas at multiple levels. From the inside out and outside in, you’ll discover dynamic learning, research, and innovation space, bolstering Mason’s efforts to recruit and retain the best and brightest.
Carleton College’s new science complex is a testament to what’s possible when modernizing an existing building. 43% percent energycost reduction despite a 33% increase in new square footage.
The new Evelyn M. Anderson Hall science complex brings together programs previously spread across five buildings to create one leading-edge, integrated science community — establishing an immersive culture of connecting intellectual curiosity and research.
Modernizing two existing facilities and demolishing a third to create space for a high-performance addition, the team designed a new sun-splashed atrium that unites the three structures and channels light throughout the building. To help the college achieve its mandate of not increasing campus energy consumption through new construction or renovation projects, Page’s in-house Green Lab incorporated energy modeling into the project’s earliest phase. This approach, coupled with the allocation of wind power generated onsite, achieved a 38.4% decrease in overall energy consumption — despite the 33% increase in total square footage — and a 43.2% energy cost-savings reduction, earning a USGBC LEED Platinum certification.
Capped by an arched zinc roof that unifies the three-building composition, the exterior combines Carleton’s blended brick and glass with local Minnesota granite. A spectacular transparent room projects through the historic columns and overlooks the atrium, while a cascading staircase activates the space and connects all levels.
The College of New Jersey (TCNJ)’s 89,000-square-foot STEM building anchors a cross-disciplinary STEM Complex by uniting the existing science buildings to Armstrong Hall, home of the Engineering program. Reflecting the latest research and pedagogies, the new facility provides cutting-edge academic spaces and labs – including a robotics labs, biosafety level-2 testing labs, an engineering design studio, and a metal fabrication/assembly workshop – as well as student spaces and faculty offices for the Schools of Engineering and Science.
The heart of the building and the Complex at large is the Innovation Center – a unique glass-walled environment for collaborative learning and research – that visually and physically connects the digital design lab, student project space, metal fabrication workshop and prototyping lab with 3D printers and laser cutter. Highly flexible and technologically robust, the venue accommodates multimodal presentations, seminars and demonstrations of student projects.
Designed to foster group learning through an iterative think-modelmake process, the Innovation Center also supports mechanical engineering, robots, and bio-medical engineering, which have adjacent wet labs and cleanroom.
Phase 1 of the project focuses on the STEM facility, whose transitional design scheme responds in massing, scale, materials, and details to the campus’s Collegiate Georgian architectural vernacular. The existing Science Complex was enlarged by a 23,600-squarefoot Chemistry addition. Phase 2 modernized 56,000 square feet of existing classroom and lab space.
Columbia University Northwest Corner Science Building
At a Glance
Project Size
188,000 Square Feet
Services Provided Architecture / Branding and Graphics / Planning
Beginning in 2002, Columbia University identified a need to invest in its natural sciences programs. A subsequent program report further identified the need to promote collaboration opportunities within a new building, to provide links to other campus buildings, and to create campus-wide amenities that would promote student interaction. The last remaining unbuilt tower of the original McKim, Mead & White campus masterplan, at the northwest corner, was chosen for this new building. As an insertion into the already dense urban fabric of the Morningside campus, the Northwest Corner Science Building was required to be built as a free-standing structure spanning 126 feet over and above the existing Dodge Gymnasium. The gym was only allowed to be closed for three months so as to not impact the University’s varsity athletics schedule. The building was therefore designed as a bridge using three primary trusses to span over the gym.
The 188,000-square-foot, 14-story building provides 70,000 square feet of lab space for 21 labs on seven floors. The remaining levels provide space for a science library, which freed up an additional 30,000 square feet in four other buildings by consolidating the libraries of electrical engineering, physics, chemistry and biology. With the space made available, the new building adds approximately 35 percent more research space to these disciplines.
Davis Brody Bond, a Page company worked closely with Design Architect Rafael Moneo in developing the program, planning concepts, and primary structural and mechanical systems from Programming through Completion of the project. We took the lead with city agency approvals. Davis Brody Bond, a Page company was responsible laboratory programming; code compliance; and for full coordination and preparation of Construction Documents including early bid packages for foundations, excavation, structural steel, elevators, and exterior curtain wall.
LEED gold
University of Florida
Herbert Wertheim Laboratory for Engineering Excellence
The University of Florida Herbert Wertheim Laboratory for Engineering Excellence (Nexus Lab Project) is a state-of-the-art educational environment to bring together interdisciplinary faculty, undergraduates, graduate students, and industry partners in collision spaces that compel collaboration. Envisioned as the hub of engineering at the University of Florida, the site occupies a prominent location in the heart of campus across from the student union. Positioned along the major pedestrian walk, the building allows the activities within to be displayed. This transparency extends vertically through the building via the central stair. The building is the center for engineering collaboration and inspiration for the next and future generations of engineers.
Facilities include bioengineering, computer science, advanced manufacturing, integrated product prototyping, and maker labs for student projects. Research labs are combined with state-of-the-art teaching labs, classroom, and collaborative telepresence space for global learning.
Princeton University Neuroscience and Psychology Complex
This complex as designed to strengthen Princeton’s developing natural sciences precinct with two connected buildings for the Department of Psychology and the Neuroscience Institute, an initiative that put the University at the forefront of brain and behavioral sciences research. Bringing together faculty from a spectrum of departments, the project’s laboratories, offices, and teaching space were designed to create a new interdisciplinary community.
Princeton is Davis Brody Bond, a Page company’s second major collaboration with Madrid-based architect Rafael Moneo. We developed architectural details, construction documents, and a BIM digital model from his concept design. We also planned the laboratory layouts, accommodating equipment from benchtop instrumentation to a four-ton MRI scanner. Achieving the intent of the luminous ribbed glass façade was a particular challenge, and we worked closely with glass foundries and wall systems manufacturers to reach an appropriate solution that combines custom elements and standard framing.
The serene, gently curved building forms complement their site; two of the psychology building’s five stories nestle into a slope to reduce the complex’s apparent size. Interior shafts bring daylight into the building, and facades of cast glass bisected by clear windows provide diffuse sunlight to offices and lecture rooms.
Despite necessarily dense energy use in lab areas, the Neurosciences Complex is on track for LEED Silver certification thanks to extensive conservation measures anticipated to reduce energy costs 15% from ASHRAE standards. The double-layered façade both cuts solar heat gain and heavily insulates the building. This reduces summer cooling needs, allowing the use of a chilled beam system. In winter, mechanical systems are augmented with extremely efficient heat recovery. Occupancy controls are used for lighting and non-critical ventilation throughout. Stormwater collection and low-flow fixtures optimize water usage.
