Science and Technology by Perkins&Will London

Science and Technology 2022

Since 1935, we’ve believed that design has the power to make the world a better, more beautiful place.

Contents Why Us? ― 4 Our Expertise ― 14 Selected Projects ― 24 About Us ― 40

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Why Us?

Introduction The world of Life Sciences is changing dramatically, no longer is there a sole focus on the science and research in their working environments, there is now a focus on how teams come together to collaborate, create a culture and community and retain and attract top talent. Ideation is at the heart of innovative environments and where ground-breaking discoveries happen. There is also an emphasis on health, wellbeing, and sustainability. The post-COVID science workplace needs to go beyond flexibility and embrace the concept of adaptability, future proofed to enable its users to evolve over time and embrace new ways of working and new solutions for their research. Our science clients are asking more of their buildings and their working environments and we are driving the right solutions for them. Perkins&Will has a unique and unparalleled offer to the market. We are not just lab architects, we bring knowledge and expertise across many unique and powerful disciplines, from Urban Design, Workplace Strategy, Workplace Design and Architecture. We have a unique offer of not just designers but scientists, nurses, doctors, researchers and planners. We are excited to share our knowledge with you and showcase the power that the convergence of Science and Architecture have and our thinking for the future.

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Why Us?

Delivering your vision Buildings for life sciences have a unique set of requirements to support the specialist work carried out in these spaces. We have a deep understanding of the sector and a global perspective on the challenges and opportunities our clients face. Our team of experts deliver our clients' vision to design spaces that support the science and technology industry.

Working with you The vision and brief lay the foundations of all projects. It is the litmus test that is continually referenced through the design development and delivery. It sets the direction and defines the strategy. In the Life Sciences sector, it is paramount that the vision and detailed requirements are established from the outset of the project in order to capture the complexity and innovative measures that are to be delivered.

‘What do you need?’. It is important that we live and breathe the culture and how our clients deliver their science. We will share knowledge, expertise, and benchmarking from Life Sciences and other sectors to further enrich and enhance your vision for the project. We have a deep understanding of the sector and a global perspective on the challenges and opportunities our clients face and we will go above and beyond to ensure that our clients needs are met and excellence is achieved.

Perkins&Will have a unique way of extracting your vision and brief. Our approach is not only to dig beneath the surface of your lab and business needs but start to probe beyond what you do today. We ask questions like, ‘What do you do?’ rather than

Depth of understanding We know the unique convergence of research, development, and entrepreneurial innovation does not happen by accident. The technical demands of today’s science environments require the highest standards of design and expertise, but it also requires more. It requires a complex understanding of strategy, scientific planning, quality of place, and creation of community. They also require unique blended and inclusive environments to suppwort and harness the bold and inquisitive minds of it’s researchers, scientists, and staff.

ability to support innovation and future research demands. We also not only employ Lab architects, but researchers, scientists, planners, and doctors which gives us a unique global insight into the user/scientist perspective, allowing us to understand the "science of science". We are proud of our in-house expertise within the life sciences and science and tech community, working with academic institutions and commercial researchers we are able to bridge this convergence with our clients, to recognize their key differentiators and apply those principles to make distinctive and successful design solutions.

Today's research environments - whether corporate, institutional, or academic - are competitive venues for the brightest minds. Success hinges on the

Why Us?

A global perspective We're in it for the greater good. Our goal is to design places that make a positive difference in the world. That’s why people are at the heart of everything we do. This is why clients and communities on nearly every continent partner with us to design healthy, happy places in which to live, learn, work, play, and heal. We’re passionate about human-centric design and are committed to creating a positive impact in people’s lives through sustainability, resilience, wellbeing, diversity, inclusion, and research. Our global team of 2,000 creatives and critical thinkers provides integrated services in architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, and more.

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100+ Design Awards 2,000+ in the Last 5 Years

Lab of the Year Awards

1,500

Design Professionals

Turnkey Awards for Vivarium Design

Studios Worldwide

100+

LEED Accredited Professionals

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Top 10

Innovative Companies in Architecture, 2018

LEED Certified Science Facilities

Architecture Firm for Science and Technology

Why Us?

A team of experts

London Studio Steven Charlton Managing Director

Raj Deb Managing Principal, Science & Technology

Mark Rowe Managing Principal, Architecture

Daniel Parker Associate Principal, Architecture

Brandon Buck Associate Principal, Architecture

Senior Associate Senior Associate, Urban Design

Andrea Imaz Associate, Urban Design

Firmwide Leaders Ed Cordes Principal, Atlanta Science and Technology

Bill Harris Managing Director, New York

Jeffrey R. Zynda Principal, Boston, Science and Technology

Kay Kornovich Managing Director, Seattle

Our GMP planning is led by Senior Lab Planning Strategist James Levin, DVM, DACLAM. Jim is a GMP facilities expert with over 25 years of experience shared between biopharmaceutical research and manufacturing, biocontainment and animal research, with an emphasis on facility design and process flow management. In his career, Jim has supported facility design projects for private industry, academic and government institutions, including: Avant Immunotherapy cGMP Quality Control and Product Release Labs, NIH cGMP Cell Culture Manufacturing Suites, Boston University cGMP Clinical Trial Suite, United Therapeutics – cGMP Drug Substance Manufacturing facility for Cell Culture Biologic and Drug Therapy, cGMP Drug Product Manufacturing facility for injectable and inhaled therapeutic products, and cGMP Medical Device Manufacturing facility for nebulizer therapy, among many others.

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Our Expertise

Areas of expertise We have designed more than 50 million square feet of science facilities in the past ten years, ranging from a 1,000-square-foot laboratory fit-out to a multimillion square foot science city. Our practice has received more than 100 design awards for projects within the last five years and has been recognised for innovation in science and research facility planning. We know that today's scientific environments are competitive venues for the best and the brightest, where success hinges on the ability to attract talent with inspiring design, and to engage them with the tools to meet their needs. As a partner to our clients and their stakeholders, we craft these novel concepts with an original approach that draws from our depth of experience in technical delivery of research facilities, our detailed experience from in-house experts who have run complex research programs themselves, and also our breadth of experience across workplace, interiors, and master planning.

Corporate Research

Public Sector Research

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Pharmaceutical Research 16

Institutional Research

Academic Research

High Containment & High Stability

Government Research

Engineering

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Our Expertise

Novel Medicines to Prevent and Treat Diseases New an Collaboration, innovation, and entrepreneurship in medicine requires vision to see new treatment modalities, and environments that support the human endeavor. Novel technologies to make these treatments require specialization and compliance to ensure patient safety.

Ultra HighStability Environments Laser & Metrology Laboratories

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Animal Research/ Vivaria/BSU

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Higher Education Life Science Research

Medical device engineering and development

Early stage Bio Tech Incubator Start up - R&D

Big data science AI - Bio Tech

New Tools, Appliances, and Instruments applied on or in the body to treat patients with wearable and implantable devices at home and in the hospital. Prototypes designed in specialised laboratories and medical products produced in sterile environments.

Spaces designed for collaboration and innovation. Novel idea generation and prototyping enhanced by specialised equipment and research capabilities often shared by young entrepreneurs with a vision for new ways to treat unmet medical needs.

Finding patterns in numbers requires access to massive genomic data sets and an ability to find the needle in the haystack. Large computer screens supported by supercomputers and large clinical databases pinpoint genes and proteins that become gateways to new practices of medicine.

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Early stage pharma - process pipeline manufacturing/production

Vaccine Development epidemiology & Clinical Trials (specialist buildings)

Commercial Production

Turning research into medicine requires laboratories for pharmaceutical medicines development and small scale manufacturing process to study safety and efficacy of novel therapeutic agents. Pilot scale facilities often require cGMP Cleanroom environments for the development of novel therapeutics.

Unmet medical needs for emerging diseases and personalised medicine to keep populations safe and healthy. Spaces to administer new medical entities and evaluate patients are critical for regulatory approval of lifesaving vaccines and treatments to prolong life.

Clean room manufacturing of active ingredients and final products made under supervision for full compliance and assurance of patient safety.

Our Expertise

Key drivers for life sciences projects We know that every research environment is unique, and we take pride in getting under the hood of locations that deliver scientific breakthroughs. From our hundred of projects, we can take a step back and observe certain universal drivers around which we challenge ourselves to dig deeper and advance the dialogue around.

Science Workplace

Talent

Creating engaging and inspiring workplaces that foster collaboration.

Providing aspirational facilities that support the recruitment and retention of the best and brightest.

Sustainability

Urban Design

Seeking solutions that transform heavy load and high demand laboratory buildings in a sustainable way.

Integration of facilities into the urban, district, or campus context to deliver the best user experience.

Regulation and Compliance Meeting the highest levels of complexity in biosafety and rightsizing for future adaptability.

Our clients We collaborate with clients to create flexible design solutions that bring to life their business plans and holistically reflect their vision, brand and values. It is through this exploration of authentic identity, culture and mission that we arrive at the full potential of a place. In a collaborative and dynamic process, Perkins&Will works with clients to foster a dynamic and responsive environment to the needs of science.

Alexandria Real Estate

Fairview Park North

Manulife Real Estate

Armada Hoffler Properties

Farr Asset Management

The Mills Corporation

Bastion Development

Forest City

North Insurance Brokerage

BioMed Realty

Gerding Edlen Development

Opus

Beacon Capital

Great West Life Realty

Oxford Properties

Boston Consulting Group

Gulf Atlantic Real Estate

Paddington Development

Boston Properties

Higgins Development Partners

PCI Group

The Bristol Group

Hines Interest Limited Partnership

Prentiss Properties

CMK Companies

Intracorp Development

Quadrangle Development

Concord Pacific Group

Irving Interests

Corporation

CARR Real Estate Services

J Street Development

The Rome Group

Cassidy & Pinkard

J.A. Loveless Company

Ruby Investments

CB Richard Ellis

JBG Properties

Signet Development

Charles E. Smith

JBG/TCW

Touchstone Corporation

Crescent Heights

The John G. Shooshan Company

Trammell Crow

Columbia Equity Trust

John Snow, Inc.

Urban Realty Advisors, Inc

Colliers

King Street Properties

Walker and Company

Cushman & Wakefield

Laxton & Company

Wall Financial Group

Dearborn Development

Leggatt McCall Properties

Westbank Projects

DivCo West

LendLease

West*Group

Dubai Int’l Properties

Longfellow

Williams & Dame Development Inc.

Duke Realty

Martin Selig Real Estate

Windmill Developments

― Our Expertise

Selected Projects 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 to support a booming ecosystem.

Selected Projects

Allen Institute Seattle, Washington Client: Vulcan, Inc.

After years distributed across numerous Seattle locations The Allen

Size: 272,000 square feet

Institute decided to build one new headquarters on a holistic site in

Completion Date: September 2015

Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. Consolidating into one location

Sustainability: LEED Gold®

allowed this bioscience research company to work in their unique culture

Awards: Honorable Mention, AIA Seattle, 2016

of teams and projects.

Technology/Live Sciences Development of the

Embodying the Institute’s research philosophy we designed a new

Year, NAIOP Washington, 2016

environment that encourages collaboration, offers flexibility, and

Best Project in Higher Education and

breaks down barriers of private research practices. We broke the rules

Research, ENRNorthwest, 2016

of conventional lab organisation by arranging “petals” of functional

Best of the Best Higher Education and

space around a central atrium. This maximises daylight and views while

Research, ENR, 2016

visually and spatially connecting the activities happening throughout

AGC Build Washington Awards, 2016 High Honors, Lab of the Year, 2017

the building. By designing from the inside out, we created a research headquarters that promotes collaborative interaction to facilitate rapid advancements in brain and cell research.

Intentional Collisions

Unconventional Lab Planning

Big Science

A six-story atrium connected

Conventional lab organisation

The Allen Institute houses a 2,700

with a beautiful communicating

stratifies functional uses with

square foot data center to process

stair is a catalyst for intentional

linear zones of programs. The Allen

and store their work. Reflecting the

collisions. Departments cross on

Institute, however, is organised

core values of big science and open

the stairs and across the atrium,

as “petals” of functional spaces

science, the data center is showcased

inspiring conversations and research

around an atrium. The labs are also

behind a glass wall.

collaboration. Cantilevered pods

strategically located away from the

extend into the atrium, offering space

exterior allowing for circulation on

for spontaneous meetings, which are

both sides. Embodying the principle

often a source of creative sparks.

of ‘open science’, two sides of the lab are glazed, providing maximum light and allowing researchers to see from one end of the building to the other.

Selected Projects

Designed for Growth Rapid growth called for flexible planning. In order to accommodate for an explosion of staff—growing from 200 to 355 employees in just four years—the lab was designed to be flexible with the ability to serve future needs of both known and unknown recruits.

“I have never seen or been in a building that matches its functionality (and aesthetics). One sees conversations throughout the building, all of the time, we meet colleagues in the central stair well and male connections that we had not anticipated, and the spaces work to support both personal and work interactions in indescribable ways. The building is sensational!” ― RICK HORWITZ, ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN SCIENCE

“I am most impressed how wonderfully the building lives, facilitating our work, supporting our daily work, promoting interactions, supporting the spectrum of scientific activities from experiment to theory and modeling.” ― MIKE HAWRYLYCZ, INVESTIGATOR

Historic Restoration and Integration The site of the Institute was originally home to the 1920s Ford and Pacific McKay buildings. To preserve these former car showrooms, the historic buildings were cataloged, disassembled, and reconstructed along with the new structure. The restoration incorporated 2,760 pieces of terra cotta and 966 decorative plaster elements.

← A small art gallery that is open to the public showcases part of founder, Paul Allen's art collection.

Selected Projects

Center for Novel Therapeutics La Jolla, California Client: BioMed Realty Trust, Inc. Size: 137,500 square feet Completion Date: 2019 Sustainability: LEED Gold®

A Collision of Research and Discovery Speeding up the delivery of life saving cancer treatments by blending academic with private sector research was the shared vision developed

Awards: Best Projects Award of Merit, Higher

by two faculty members at UC San Diego. A decade later, a partnership

Education/Research Category, ENR California

between BioMed Realty, UCSD, and our design team led to the award-

Region, 2019

winning Center for Novel Therapeutics (CNT). Responding to the richness in the variety of companies located within the Science Research Park, the CNT was designed to encourage chance encounters through research wings wrapping around a central atrium that creates visual and physical synergies between academic and private researchers. Today, the CNT serves as a cancer research hub and the first academic-industry drug discovery incubator site in San Diego.

― WHAT MAKES IT COOL

The design fosters collaboration between users with the goal of accelerating therapies from bench to bedside. A New Way of Facilitating Research

Innovative Lab Planning

Situated in the heart of an academic

Responding to the project’s

research, healthcare and life

specific demands for research and

science center ecosystem, the CNT

collaboration, the CNT project was

project had to innovate beyond the

traditional lab organisation to create

laboratory design—pushing the

a new generation of research and

laboratories to the outside of the

collaboratively oriented lab spaces.

building, creating views to the campus

The solution was to curate a series

and introducing generous amounts of

of individually scaled and flexible

daylight into the space. The lab office

laboratories for Moores Cancer Center,

areas were then shifted to the interior,

collocated private industry labs, and

surrounding the atrium, promoting

scaled accelerator labs and incubator

collaboration and reinforcing a sense

spaces. Together, these programs

of community. Within the lab zones, by

within the CNT project form a world-

rotating the lab support 90 degrees,

class research institution where

the lab and office areas are now

novel therapeutics are conducted

adjacent to one another—allowing for

and discovered.

multiple points of access and greater visual connectivity. A secondary benefit of this arrangement is that views from the atrium into the lab spaces were created to allow the public, university and fellow researchers to see the ground breaking research being conducted within and reinforcing the project’s central concept of accelerated and shared discovery.

Selected Projects

Trinity College, Dublin E3 Research Institute Feasibility Study Dublin, Ireland Client: Trinity College at Grand Canal Quay Completion Date: Ongoing

― WHAT IT IS

A study dedicated to defining the potential of the building site or sites for Trinity's E3 Research Institute. It is from this perspective that our team has studied E3RI in synchronisation with the revised (2020) master planning guidance to deliver the high-level programmatic elements desired for a transdisciplinary institute that embraces a convergent agenda for research and discovery. To “pressure-test” the site and potential scenarios, a high-level program was developed as the model. This produced an illustrative working program consisting of research laboratory space, shared core-facility space, collaboration space and office and amenity space. For the purposes of cost-model analysis, prototypical modular spaces derived from disciplinary focused needs and which offer flexibility to accommodate a broader range of activities were developed. These are indicative space types only.

Computational

Dry Lab

Wet Lab

Heavy Wet Lab

Traditionally, space programs have been written around well understood and finite needs in support of specific research programs. As we move into the next-generation of research spaces, single discipline focus laboratories and clearly defined research needs are less and less common. Instead, we are seeing spaces that will greatly vary in their research usage and require greater flexibility to accommodate a broader range of activities. We believe that the era of true singular discipline research buildings has ended and era of convergent - melding of traditionally separated disciplines - research buildings is well underway.

Selected Projects

The Oxford Science Park Oxford, United Kingdom Client:The Oxford Science Park ― Size: 18,775 square meters ― Completion Date: 2023 ― Sustainability: BREEAM Excellent

― WHAT IT IS

A Radical Change

A flexible laboratory and office space to radically change the future of development at the 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 neighbouring underused 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.

Selected Projects

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

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.

Selected Projects

Louis A. Simpson and Kimberly K. Querrey Biomedical Research Center Chicago, Illinois Client: Northwestern University ― Size: 600,000 square feet ― Completion Date: 2019 ― Sustainability: LEED Gold®

Leading-Edge Research, Forward-Looking Architecture Northwestern University was in need of a stateof-the-art facility in which to conduct complex and demanding biomedical research— establishing labs and laboratory support for 550+ Principal Investigators and 3,300 graduate students. The new Biomedical Research Center serves as a vibrant research hub at the core of Chicago’s world-class academic medical district comprised of Northwestern University, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. To attract the best scientists and research minds, the new research space is state-of-theart in its features and amenities.

The building’s transparent skin harvests natural light while revealing glimpses of internal activity to passersby.

Our design creates an iconic shape on Chicago’s skyline, providing a contemporary reference to the signature towers on Northwestern’s Gothic-style campus while honoring the significance of the research activities that take place within. In its flexible conferencing suites and break/lounge areas, as well as collaborative spaces in lab neighborhoods, our design creates a dynamic, collegial environment in which important scientific discoveries will take place.

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About Us

Our London Studio

London has long been considered the design capital of the world, and our studio is perfectly placed in the heart of the action. Sitting at the boundary between the fast-paced City of London and the eclectic melting pot of the East, our studio is a microcosm of the city itself. We bring the energy and flair of London through our doors—it’s a place where diversity thrives, collaboration is key, and design excellence leads the way.

In 2019, award winning architecture firm Penoyre & Prasad joined Perkns&Will as a studio of the London office. We also collaborate with our sister company, branding and experience design studio Portland.

About Us

“We are curious, experimental and we place research and knowledge sharing at the heart of our design practice. We believe true, meaningful innovation is achieved when the power of imagination is combined with robust technical expertise, in depth knowledge and the support of the latest technologies.” ― MIJAIL GUTIERREZ, PRINCIPAL

← You see work everywhere and our people love having spaces to collaborate, think and create.

→ The model shop is located in the visitor area behind a fully glazed wall, exposing and showcasing our design processes through the use of physical modelmaking.

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Our Values Guided by our core values—design excellence, diversity and inclusion, research, resilience, social purpose, sustainability, and well-being—we are committed to designing a better, more beautiful world.

We’re focused on making people’s lives better—holistically—by designing places that promote well-being from the inside out. We’re redefining sustainability as one of several interconnected parts to a greater, more meaningful whole. It’s a philosophy we call Living Design.

HUMAN CENTRIC

DESIGN SUSTAINABLE

RESEARCH BASED

We believe research holds the key to greater project performance. Our researchers and designers work in partnership from project start to completion. Together, they assess our clients’ goals and innovate ways to achieve them. 49

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