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 |
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