Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute

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Cambridge, MA
2007
50,000 sf

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Goals

• Renovate existing facility into a state-of-the-art home for genome sequencing.

Challenges

• Create genome sequencing and other support labs that are fully flexible and easily adaptable to changes in processing equipment, lab practices, and scientific demands.
• Re-organize existing offices, equipment rooms, and other support spaces to improve adjacencies and maximize efficiency.
• Perform renovations in occupied facility without interrupting the scientific processes underway.

Design Response

• Addressed flexibility through creative plan layouts and utility distribution systems.
• Developed clear graphic documents to communicate phasing and changes and to collaborate with scientific leaders.
• Maximized re-use of existing walls and construction; limited interventions to key features, such as the introduction of an interior communicating stair between the sequencing floor and new mezzanine offices.
• Respected but did not mimic the finish palette and aesthetic of the Broad Institute headquarters building (also designed by Signer Harris Architects in collaboration with Maryann Thompson Architects and Elkus/Manfredi).

Contractor

Kirkland Construction

Consultants

RDK Engineers, John Born Engineering