This project consists of an extensive renovation and addition to the internationally renowned environmental institute’s headquarters. The project re-envisions and updates the forward-thinking aspirations of the visionary 1978 design by Malcolm Wells, a founder of the green building movement. Over the 42 years since this innovative project was lauded widely in the architectural and general press as a trailblazing exemplar of sustainable design, its solar thermal roof and geothermal systems failed and were lost to renovations that subverted the original intention for the building to embody the Cary’s environmental values.
The dynamic architecture of the Innovation Curve at Stanford Research Park celebrates the creative process of technology, which is fundamental to the international success of Silicon Valley. The peaks and valleys of sweeping metal curves serve as architectural metaphors for the highs and lows of exploratory research and development. Designed by Form4 Architecture of San Francisco, the new development comprises four buildings on the edge of Stanford Research Park in Palo Alto. The LEED Platinum-certified project contributes to the site’s emergence as an uplifting campus for tenants involved with computer gaming, translation software, and digital inventions. Representing the evolution of innovation on the face of the buildings, the lyrical design serves as a potent visual reminder of the dedicated, expansive, and intense work taking place inside.
Size: 288,000 total square feet in four buildings on 13.5-acre campus: Building 1: 66,700 square feet; Building 2: 66,700 square feet; Building 3: 77,000 square feet; Building 4: 77,000 square feet
S-LAB, the new complex of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (National Institute of Nuclear Physics) in Turin, Italy, is located within the premises of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (National Research Council) in order to promote collaborations between the two institutions in the development of common research activities and programs. It is a semi-industrial building where machinery and precision instruments for the experiments carried out by the Institute are produced. At the same time it is a building with a strong symbolic value due to the relevance of the research topics and the high scientific value of what is carried out here.
Resting by the sea in classified site, opposite of the Île-de-Batz, the fishpond is a structure that has two aspects. A public face, on the beach, massive and inherent to its function (to retain water) and a lighter discreet side, which is only revealed to researchers at the Roscoff Biological Station.
The work forms with its environment a coherent and respectful architecture. It magnifies the exceptional character of the site and integrates with it through a silent and calm design.
Article source: RTA Studio + Irving Smith Architects
RTA Studio and Irving Smith Architects was commissioned to reimagine the Rotorua headquarters of Scion, a Crown Research Institute that specialises in technology development for the forestry industry. Aptly located on the edge of the redwood forest in Whakarewarewa Forest Park, the project brings the workforce, previously siloed in smaller buildings dotted around the campus, into a central innovation hub while creating a new campus arrival point to strengthen the public interface for Scion.
Program: The new construction includes four floors of biology and chemistry research facilities, two floors of biology and chemistry teaching labs, a below‐grade nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy lab, and a 175‐seat auditorium.
Norte Sur Architects presents a vibrant bioclimatic structure that is home to the ACIB (Costa Rican Biomedical Research Agency), a non-profit organization dedicated to biomedical research and genomic sequencing for cancer prevention and treatment. It is located in the province of Guanacaste, Costa Rica and its design has been carried out under high standards of sustainability and carbon footprint reduction.
In order to create a resilient structure, adaptable to the dry tropical climate of the area, Norte Sur Architects was set out to rethink and reinvent the rigid and monotonous image associated with the highly controlled conditions required by a biomedical laboratory. Located within a few miles from the beautiful beaches of the Costa Rica’s Pacific coast, the final result is a colorful and vibrant set consisting of a combination of lightweight construction systems that allow the building to respond to the elements with a low carbon footprint.
Article source: Studio Original Designers 6R5 Network
Tomorrow Lab is the digital hub of Fabio Perini, a leading company in the supply of machinery and processing and packaging services of tissue, born to understand and exploit the opportunities offered by digitization, and to make Industry 4.0 a reality in the own market of the tissue. An open innovation space designed to create and share “knowledge” between Fabio Perini employees and the entire system of paper production, bringing together startups, universities, business accelerators and institutions.
Total Internal and External Project and Coordination – Project Leader: STUDIO ORIGINAL DESIGNERS 6R5 NETWORK, Milan – Francesco Roggero – Rita Alfano – Albino Pozzi – Kiyoto Ishimoto
Validation of the Architectural Technical Project: STUDIO BLASI – Arch Barbara Blasi – Milan
Systems & Domotics Projects: STUDIO MONTEMARANO – Castelnuovo R. – Modena, Pietro Montemarano – Alberto Lelli
Construction site management: STUDIO TECHNO INGEGNERIA, Ing Raffaello Bertocchini – Lucca
Graphics and Rendering: TECTONIKA DESIGN – Malaga – Spagna, Fernando Latcherre – Romina Costantini
Supply of large luminous walls – LEDs: ART & CO – Verona – IMPRIMENDO – Trofarello – Torino
The Center for Cancer Research and Treatment project promoted by the Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo Foundation is located to the north of the city of Bogotá surrounded by green zones and with the hills of Los Cerros as the backdrop. The building faces the mountains, maximizing access to the views and creating a sequence of interior and exterior spaces that reconnect the patient to natural surroundings that, due to the favorable climatic conditions, can be used all year round.
A cooperation zone for innovation in science and technology is currently being established between Shenzhen and Hong Kong with a total of 16 new buildings. schneider+schumacher’s competition-winning design for “Shenfang Park”, a national center for research and development, will be one of the first buildings on site. The competition brief called for a seminal design that would set the benchmark for all future development. The foundation stone for this major project has just been laid, marking the official start of construction work.
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