― Research and Innovation Districts
The power of a haven for expertise
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Introduction ― 4 Selected Projects ― 10
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― Research and Innovation Districts
Where purpose and quality of life intersect. Every successful research cluster needs multiple means of mobility, diversely skilled and experienced people, and a hub of activity. We know what it means to plan for these challenges and design a booming ecosystem.
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Symbiotic relationships that let research thrive What is the value of proximity? Of chance? Of coming across an old colleague, or a new idea, and taking the time to see where it all leads? The potential value of a research district is limitless. Attracting someone to a place isn’t enough. They should feel compelled – by some intangible force – to stick around, contribute, engage. Advancing your approach and ambition is our objective, we’re here to support your ideas.
← Density and creation of complete streets are high priority at Churchill Technology and Business Park. Using strategies locating parking in the rear of the development as well as centralized walking areas will encourage greater pedestrian use and community involvement.
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Research and Innovation Districts
Principles of greatness Four key design principles help drive the success of research environments.
Multi-Dimensional Don’t specialize in one discipline to the exclusion of all else. Successful tech centers are homes to labs, offices, educational institutions, and businesses that aren’t central to the mission but which support it regardless.
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places like cafes, parks, or even stairwells.
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Selected Projects
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Assembly Innovation Park Somerville, Massachusetts Client: BioMed Realty ― Size: 1.6 M square feet ― Master Plan Completion Date: 2020 ― Building(s) Completion Date: 2024, 2026, 2030 ― Sustainability: LEED Gold® Targeted
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Creating a Vibrant Urban Hub on an Industrial Site
Historically, the site was an assembly plant for General Motors before undergoing two subsequent redevelopments.
Assembly Innovation Park aims to create a 21st Century Campus for Research and Innovation Hub with a diverse scale of lab/office spaces that create opportunities for engagement and collaboration anchored around a shared central open space. Four distinct buildings frame the central open space and demonstrate unique visual and tectonic identities in relation to central public open space. Historically, the site was an assembly plant for General Motors before undergoing two subsequent redevelopments – the first a big box retail center, then later a mixed-use downtown “Assembly Row”, with a focus on ground level placemaking, supported by a mix of commercial office, hotel and residential set atop conventionally scaled urban blocks.
Aerial view: The project transforms existing surface parking lots into a vibrant mixed use district anchored around an urban open space for all.
Placemaking At the heart of the campus is a publicly accessible green space that is intended to foster opportunities for active gathering and community events. These open spaces will serve as a signature component to Assembly Innovation Park and complimentary to the Assembly Row development. It will be vibrant and energized by active uses at the ground levels of the proposed building. The open space will be reinforced with a framework of pedestrian friendly streets and vibrant public realm and improved connectivity to Somerville, riverfront and transit stations.
The district will create stitch neighborhoods together, offering both an active public realm and welcoming pedestrian corridors.
Assembly Innovation Park
Performance Goals Sustainable technologies are integrated throughout every aspect of the design, from the high-performance building envelopes to the 50,000 SF rooftop photovoltaic array that provides on-site renewable energy. All buildings in Assembly Innovation Park are designed to achieve LEED Gold and WELL certifications. LEED Gold certifiable for core and shell. To be studied as LEED Platinum as well.
Assembly Innovation Park
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
There is 1.5M square feet of speculative lab/office in three separately phased buildings with supporting amenities of parking garage, fitness center, retail, bike parking, amongst many.
The Oxford Science Park Oxford, United Kingdom Client: The Oxford Science Park ― Size: 18,775 square metres ― Completion Date: 2023 ― Sustainability: BREEAM Very Good
― WHAT IT IS
A Radical Change
A flexible laboratory and office space to radically change the future of development at Oxford Science Park.
Oxford Science Park is one of the United Kingdom’s leading science and technology parks. More than 2,500 employees enjoy the park’s beautifully landscaped grounds, benefiting from an exceptional working environment that plays to the rhythm of Oxford’s world-famous spirit of discovery, innovation and research. With this in mind, it was important that our design for a new laboratory and office environment responded to the site’s prestigious reputation. The scheme will awaken a previously undeveloped plot on the park’s northern edge and takes into consideration the neighboring under utilized site for future development. The proposal is for two buildings, each arranged as two bar buildings connected by a central core to allow for flexibility of use and divisions. The proposal also allows for provisions for phasing and full use of site next-door should the site become available. This approach designs an eastern public space and unlocks the full potential of the site as a catalyst for a future train station to arrive serving the community and the site, transporting people to and from Central Oxford and positively impacting the park’s social potential for many years to come.
The concept for the façade design is derived from the experience of passing through birch trees.
― WHAT MAKES IT UNIQUE
A sustainable and eco-friendly lab which will change the future of development within The Oxford Science Park. 6
Sustainability We incorporated high-performance fabrics to reduce energy demand, while the adoption of passive design measures wherever possible will reduce the need for mechanical systems. Lifecycle analysis will reduce embodied energy, and with responsible resourcing to minimise environmental impacts, we are confident of reaching our targeted “Very Good” BREEAM Certification. Resilience Since the site lies in a flood risk area, most functions are lifted above the flood levels and the ground floor accommodation will be built to the highest standards to mitigate the effects of flooding.
Concept sketch showing view towards south west from Pocket Park
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The Oxford Science Park
This is a site analysis showing the Nursery plot (far left block), Plot 16 (middle block) and Thames Water Pumping Station (on far right block) which totals 1.81 Ha (4.5 acres).
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Connecting Communities With an emphasis on community engagement, our design includes the creation of external landscaped spaces to facilitate a sense of arrival to the development and the wider park. The new railway station will increase connectivity to the area, unlocking social and economic growth in the coming years. People The buildings are arranged around a central public space to create a sense of enclosure, sunlight will flood through the site during the day ensuring a pleasant experience for all users.
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NeoCity Research and Technology District Osceola County, Florida Client: Osceola County Size: 483 acres (195 hectares) Completion Date: 2017, with ongoing consulting services Awards: Award of Honor, American Society of Landscape Architecture, 2018
“NeoCity is already generating incredible momentum, positioning Central Florida as an innovation epicenter in smart sensors, photonics, and optics. We expect this development to be a game changer for these industries and for high-wage job creation in Osceola County.” Don Fisher, Osceola County Manager
― WHAT IT IS
A technology district designed to transform the way we ideate, create, and innovate.
NeoCity Research and Technology District
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
The master plan creates the potential for a longterm total economic output of up to US$30 billion and taxable revenue of up to $830 million at full build out.
Cummings Research Park Huntsville, Alabama Client: Chamber of Commerce of Huntsville/Madison County Size: 3,800 acres (1,540 hectares) Completion Date: 2016
― WHAT IT IS
A strategic global asset for handling complex scientific and technical challenges.
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Cummings Research Park
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Since 1962, ‘Rocket City’ has been a testing ground for America’s space race goals from the moon landing to Mars exploration.
This Master Plan will maintain the high trajectory of both the park and the city well into the future.
Innovation Square Gainesville, Florida Client: University of Florida Size: 60 acres (24 hectares) Completion Date: Ongoing Awards: Donald E. Hunter Excellence in Economic Planning Award, American Planning Association, 2012 Award of Merit, Planning Category, Florida APA, 2012
― WHAT IT IS
A walkable urban research district that capitalizes on the entrepreneurial energy of the University of Florida. 17
Innovation Square is a model for the design of urban research districts, shifting the paradigm from the traditional research park model into a community unified around research and the possibilities of creative collision and sustainability.
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Innovation Square
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
The ‘green street’ at the center of Innovation Square creates a pedestrian-friendly gathering space to connect the entire community.
→ Ninth Street, a pedestrian oriented streetscape and plaza with integrated stormwater management, provides the public space backbone for the district while also solving critical infrastructure issues for the city.
↑ The new 9th Street Streetscape actively manages stormwater in the district; Public spaces have become gathering spots for the community at large; The district nestles seamlessly into the surrounding urban context.
Crescent Road Redevelopment East Lansing, Michigan Client: Michigan State University Size: 140 acres (57 hectares) Completion Date: 2018
― WHAT IT IS
A vibrant, connected community of discovery that creates value for the University.
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Crescent Road Redevelopment
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Created to be a place where learning never ends and new discoveries are part of the experience.
Milton Park Vision 2040 Milton, Oxfordshire Client: MEPC Size: Existing: 380,000 square meters, Upon Completion: 480,000 square meters Completion Date: 2019
― WHAT IT IS
Sci-tech district that leverages the knowledge economy around Oxford and anchors its position in the Oxford-toCambridge corridor.
We welcomed this opportunity to help Milton Park create a clear and bold vision for positioning itself ahead of the curve in the evolving research and science park arena.
Milton Park Vision 2040
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
More than 40% of new space focuses on creating worldleading labs.
Qatar Research and Development Complex Doha, Qatar Client: Qatar Foundation Size: 44 hectares (108 acres) Completion Date: 2018 Awards: Urban Design of the Year, Leaf Awards, 2016
― WHAT IT IS
The research oriented arm of Education City.
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Qatar Research and Development Complex
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← The design of QRDC respects and enhances the natural and cultural heritage of Qatar while providing a dynamic and truly unique research experience.
↓ QRDC will serve as a bridge of scientific innovation between the education oriented facilities of Education City and the commercialization capabilities of Qatar Science and Technology Park.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
QRDC is the product of the Qatar’s recognized need to transition to a sustainable, knowledge-based society from one dependent on depletable resources.
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Technology Enterprise Park Atlanta, Georgia Client: Georgia Institute of Technology Size: 18 acres (7 hectares) Completion Date: 2016
― WHAT IT IS
An expansion of the economic, research, and maker agenda for Georgia Tech.
The vision for Technology Enterprise Park is to create an industrial innovation district, a first of its kind. TEP will be a mixed-use and interdisciplinary district, expanding the original research agenda to bring together bioscience, advanced manufacturing, information technology, energy, and robotics, to further Georgia Tech’s core research mission and provide global leadership in the 21st century.
Technology Enterprise Park
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
What began as a bioscience research park has grown into an interdisciplinary district.
NASA AMES ‘Nucleus’ Opportunity Study Sunnyvale, California Client: University of California, Office of the President Size: 16 acres (6 hectares) Completion Date: 2017
Purposeful, meaningful, focused interactions to bring entrepreneurs together to network at dinners and fireside chats with leaders
Dorms are a hive of activity with students going to and from internships and engaged in applied learning and working on launching their companies
Mentors and industry partners come here to be part of the buzz and see what ideas are burning brightly. Demo Day is
In the evenings, the classrooms come to life, with students bringing their learnings home
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the make or break to see who will survive the cut
― WHAT IT IS
Bringing all 10 UC campuses together around innovation in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Large companies can have a presence here as well, though likely through smaller footprint labs and experimental divisions A mix of short and longer term visitors make use of extended stay
As small companies grow to medium-sized
apartments with kitchenettes
ones, they still find enough space here, and keep their connections The Conference Small companies that started in the Launchpad can make a soft landing in the shared spaces
Center is highly flexible to facilitate a range of events, from small to large
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NASA AMES ‘Nucleus’ Opportunity Study
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
A vibrant public realm maximizes creative collisions and interactions between the faculty, researchers, students, and commercial enterprises.
N UC LEUS University Of California Center For Learning & Entrepreneurship, Silicon Valley, Ca
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