University Park at MIT  Master Plan and Research Building DESCRIPTION
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MASTER PLANNING
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
South Campus Expansion
University Park at MIT
Master Plan and Research Building
University of Rochester Medical Center
Master Plan
 
WORK PLACE
China Mobile
Regional Headquarters
Dongbu Corporations
Dongbu Insurance Company Headquarters
Tiffany & Co.
Silver Manufacturing Facility
Glaxo SmithKline
GSK House
EDUCATION
Syracuse University
Dorothea I. Shaffer Art Building
Virginia Commonwealth University
School of Fine Arts
 
 
HEALTHCARE
Greenwich Hospital
New Replacement Hospital
University of Rochester Medical Center
James P. Wilmot Cancer Center
Southern Maine Medical Center
Dorothy Walker Bush Pavilion
Wyckoof Heights Medical Center
Addition and Renovations
RESEARCH
University of Rochester Medical Center
Kornberg Research Building
Old Dominion University
Oceanographic and Physical Sciences Building
Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences
Toxicology and Pathology Research Building
 
RESIDENTIAL
COFCO
Apartment / Hotel
New Housing New York
Residential Apartment Building
 
 

One of the earliest partnerships between a developer and institution to develop land for bio-technology use; the intent was to continue the vitality of the city into the development through a large central space extending from the main street, Mass Avenue into the 26 acre campus. This is also one of the earliest planning efforts to employ design guidelines to do more than regulate size and bulk; it would regulate building appearance. In order to rezone, the developer would have to commit to the creation of building expression which would support, not devalue the lower scale adjacent neighbor hood. As such, the guidelines mandated a building expression drawing from tradition and the historic manufacturing history of the city.

A new incubator research building was the first building to employ the guidelines. Conventional glazing is employed in a grid to resemble the steel frame windows of the manufacturing buildings that had occupied the site; brick piers rather than walls mimic the frame expression of the 1930’s NECCO wafer factory nearby. Setbacks are employed to reduce the apparent scale of the building while supporting large open floor plates with tall floor to floor heights to accommodate the latest technologies for office and research support.


PROJECT DATA

Master Plan and Research Building Cambridge Massachusetts 2.4 million square foot master plan for office, research, residential and parking with a 125,000 square feet research building for bio-technology on five stories - Mark Chen Project Designer with Koetter Kim and Associates