Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute
Cambridge, MA
2007
50,000 sf
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
