This center for academic medicine represents an ambitious effort to provide disparate research disciplines with a common, collaborative environment.
Team’s integrated design services included architecture, landscape architecture, sustainability consulting, interior design, strategic planning, structural engineering and MEP engineering.
The location’s mild Mediterranean climate and an adjacent nature preserve inspired the team to develop a master plan for the three buildings to act as an extension of the arboretum experience by featuring connected outdoor spaces.
The narrow wings envelop a courtyard providing diverse settings for collaboration near the woods and in plazas, balconies, walkways, porches and terraces.
Internally, the workplace promotes interaction between medical specialists and the outdoor environment.