Completion Date: 2003
Square Footage: 245,000

Awards:
Lab of the Year, 2004
R&D Magazine

Building Team of the Year, 2005
Building Design and Construction Magazine

This 245,000 square foot facility houses 40 faculty from the Schools of Humanities and Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Its purpose is to support a new paradigm for scientific discovery and teaching based on cross discipline interaction and collaboration among biologists, chemists, physicists, computer scientists, engineers and medical scientists. Broad themes represented in the James H. Clark Center include molecular and cellular structure and function, imaging of biological systems, tissue engineering, computational biosciences and neurosciences.

A key goal for the building was to stimulate interaction and collaboration between faculty and students with different scientific portfolios. This was achieved through the provision of significant interaction space. Program areas of the building include wet and dry laboratories and lab support spaces, auditorium, classrooms, imaging facility, surge vivarium, low vibration laboratories, restaurant and coffee bar. We were the executive architect and laboratory planner/designer and Foster+Partners was design consultant.