Laboratory Design Portfolio
With HOK, I worked as a laboratory designer on the following buildings:
Yerkes Vaccine Research Center
Emory University. Atlanta, Georgia
Emory University's Yerkes Primate Research Center commissioned HOK to design a Vaccine Research Center. This addition would enable the center to further develop its programs in AIDS research, virology, vaccinology, immunology, and primate research. The primary goals are to: provide a facility that attracts the best scientists; provide a facility conducive to research; provide a facility that encourages and supports intellectual interaction between all scientists at Yerkes (scientists from the main campus and collaborators in the scientific community); and to provide a distinct identity for the Vaccine Research Center that is aesthetically and functionally compatible with Yerkes' existing facilities. The 70,000 sf planned facility yields a floorplate of approximately 18,000 GSF, which allows the required space to be placed on three laboratory floors with the lounge, showers, lockers, toilets, vivarium and mechanical space in the basement.
Bioscience, Environment and Materials Complex
Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta, Georgia
HOK developed a master plan for the 650,000 square BEM Complex. The design promotes interdisciplinary research through the creation of laboratory neighborhoods surrounded by a variety of formal and informal areas for interaction and meeting.
Parker H. Petit, Institute of Biosciences & Bioengineering
Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta, Georgia
The first phase of the BEM complex is a three-story, 150,000 square foot facility for the interdisciplinary research programs of 40 faculty and their research groups, including both graduate and undergraduate students.
The components of the Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience include laboratories for Structural Biology, Cellular / Tissue Engineering Research, Molecular Biology, Engineering Research, Drug Design and Delivery, and Cellular Molecular Biology. Other shared support spaces include cold rooms, dark rooms, confocal scope room, laser cell sorter, biomodeling labs, perchloric acid digestion lab, and radio isotope lab. Shell space is provided in the basement level for additional labs, an animal facility and two 400 mh wide bore NMR's.
Environmental Science & Technology Facility
Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta, Georgia
Representing the second phase of development for the BEM complex, the ES&T facility will house various research activities from the Colleges of Engineering and Sciences and a Technology Development Center (Business Incubator). The researchers envisioned for the ES&T facility will focus on broadly defined environmental and sustainability issues and encourage productive interactions with industry, government and other academic institutions. The Technology Development Center will provide essential office, laboratory and support space for emerging and start-up scientific and technically oriented companies. The proposed facility is intended to provide approximately 261,000 Gross Square Feet (GSF) of interdisciplinary and business incubator laboratories for a total project budget of $44 Million.
Environmental research labs involve processing and analyzing specimens in order to measure and quantify the ecosystem. These labs should be versatile and straight-forward to allow occupancy by many unique research programs throughout the life-span of the facility. Environmental research labs should be designed to allow the collection, preparation and analysis of materials to occur with minimum potential for cross-contamination of specimens or analysis equipment by the other stages of processing.