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Ursinus College - Pfahler Hall of Science Addition and Renovation

Location: Collegeville, PA
Size: 27,000 gsf addition, 73,000 gsf renovation
Construction Cost: $11,500,000
Completion Date: 1999
Program: Science teaching facility for Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics/Computer Science
Services: Master planning, programming, lab planning, full architectural design, construction administration

The addition and renovations to Pfahler, originally constructed in 1932, provide classrooms, teaching and research laboratories, library and conference space, and offices to meet the needs of the Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics/Computer Science departments. An existing, tablet-arm lecture hall was renovated into a tiered-floor, 95-seat lecture hall with continuous desks. Audio-visual systems include a video projector, projection room, multiple projection screens, and a variety of playback sources. Dimmable lighting and podium controls were provided along with sliding chalkboards and touch screen controls at the lectern. The addition gives the building a new focus and presence on campus. A former exterior lightwell was transformed into a new three-story atrium space serving as lounge and visual connection for all three floors. A new central stairway and two new atrium spaces provide focal points and gathering spaces for the expanded facility, and encourage interaction among the faculty and students on all floors. The building addition provides a new entrance facing the existing Biology Building; the new entry connects to a campus-wide pedestrian pathway system.

University of Vermont - Jeffords Hall Plant Sciences Building

Location: Burlington, Vermont
Size: 100,000 gsf
Construction Cost: $38,000,000
Completion Date: 2010
Program: Teaching and research building for the Plant Sciences
Services: Programming, lab planning, and architectural design

Jeffords Hall is designed to provide an improved learning and research environment that fosters interdisciplinary interaction and exchange between two departments in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences: the Department of Plant and Soil Science and the Department of Plant Biology. The faculty and scientists with whom we worked throughout the programming and design phases desired a facility that in its physical form—including the surrounding landscape—would promote the mission of their teaching and research. The south façade, which fronts Burlington’s Main Street, supports a “green wall” of kiwi vine, establishing an identity for the building on the campus as well as within the larger Burlington community. Edible gardens reflect an urban agriculture theme, with annual planting beds on the west side of the building. An arboretum on the northeast side of the building is irrigated with water collected from the building’s roof. The landscape is an outdoor laboratory for hands-on curriculum, internships, new summer offerings, and research projects. Flexible teaching laboratories and seminar rooms are included in the program, along with three 48-person classrooms available for campus-wide use. Social spaces include break rooms, conference and interaction spaces for faculty and students, and a generous public lobby for special events and social gatherings. A departmental “home” for students, which includes lounge and activity areas as well as a computing center, is provided on the ground floor near the teaching spaces. New laboratories and support facilities accommodate a variety of faculty research initiatives, while also allowing experiential learning by undergraduate students. Generic, modular research labs create an open lab environment; a “flex” module allows future expansion. Laboratory floors are organized around a “neighborhood” concept, with labs and offices for faculty and graduate students clustered to enhance research synergies and collaboration. Growth chambers, potting rooms, and mechanical spaces are located in the basement, one-half of which is shelled for future use. The building is registered for LEED Gold certification. Ellenzweig served as Design Architect and Lab Planner, working with Freeman French Freeman, Architect of Record.

Syracuse University - Life Sciences Building

Location: Syracuse, NY
Size: 235,000 gsf
Construction Cost: $78,000,000
Completion Date: 2008
Program: Life Sciences building for Biology (teaching and research) and Chemistry (teaching)
Services: Programming, lab planning, full architectural design, construction administration

The new Life Sciences Building unifies the research and teaching facilities of the Biology Department and provides Chemistry Department teaching facilities with a new home adjacent to existing Chemistry research facilities. The Complex is the key component of Syracuse University's initiative to improve teaching and research facilities for the Natural Sciences and Mathematics Division of the College of Arts and Sciences, and facilitates the interdisciplinary collaboration integral to today's Life Sciences. Organized in two wings, one for research and one for teaching, the new Life Sciences Building provides research laboratories for Molecular and Cellular Biology and teaching laboratories for the Departments of Biology and Chemistry. Various lab support facilities, such as a greenhouse, plant growth facility, and future vivarium (fully designed, constructed as shell space), are also housed in the building, as are campus-wide classroom and lecture facilities, faculty offices, departmental administrative offices, lounges, and common rooms. A new atrium, enlivened by a ground-floor café, connects the two wings of the Life Sciences Building and links the new building with the existing Center for Science and Technology, where the Chemistry research laboratories are located. The Life Sciences research wing houses modular Biology laboratories featuring “customizable zones” in each lab and a direct adjacency to faculty offices. Students are welcomed into the research wing and provided with meeting space outside faculty offices and adjacent to research laboratories. Common support facilities are organized in the center of the plan ringed by circulation, leaving the research labs organized on the perimeter of the building. This organization enhances visibility into the labs from corridors and permits natural light to penetrate deep within the space. The teaching wing provides modular Biology and Chemistry teaching laboratories, organized on four floors, which maximizes student/faculty interaction. Biology teaching laboratories are organized on the same floors and across the corridor from Chemistry teaching laboratories to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration in teaching. This organization allows sharing of support spaces, facilitating the development of interdisciplinary majors such as the Biochemistry program. The building exterior is designed to respond to the historic Syracuse campus context while acknowledging the future-oriented research and teaching taking place inside the building. Materials - brick, metal, glass - are compatible with the campus context and in keeping with the University's Master Plan.

Rowan University - Science Teaching and Research Building

Location: Glassboro, NJ
Size: 150,000 gsf
Construction Cost: $35,000,000
Completion Date: 2003
Program: Science teaching and research building for Biology, Chemistry, and Physics/Astronomy
Services: Programming, lab planning, full architectural design, construction administration

The new science building at Rowan University houses expanded facilities for the Departments of Biology, Chemistry, and Physics/Astronomy. The program includes teaching labs, research labs, support spaces, instrument rooms, classrooms, offices, a greenhouse, animal facilities, planetarium, and an observatory. The building greatly increases the research capabilities of each department and enables the faculty to accommodate student/faculty research activities for a much wider range of students. The building plan is organized in a "U" shape, centered on a two-story, sky-lit atrium that functions as the principal entrance, breakout space, and focal point of the facility. The building is organized internally as a double-loaded corridor for overall efficiency, but program spaces are located only on one side of the corridor at the base of the "U" to open the corridor to the atrium below and to provide break-out and waiting spaces for the teaching labs and classrooms on each floor. Teaching labs are located adjacent to research labs to provide introductory students a sense of the opportunities that await them as they advance in their studies. Faculty offices are grouped together at the ends of the "U" with lounge and waiting space to foster faculty interaction and provide a welcoming space to meet with students. The exterior of the building is clad primarily in red brick to reflect the existing architectural context of this part of the campus. The prominent planetarium, housed in a conical structure and clad in metal panels, is located on the edge of the atrium space; it signals the building entry and serves as a symbol of the building's scientific mission.

Millikin University - Leighty-Tabor Science Center

Location: Decatur, IL
Size: 84,000 gsf
Construction Cost: $17,300,000
Completion Date: 2002
Program: Science teaching building for Biology, Chemistry, and Physics
Services: Programming, lab planning, full architectural design, construction administration

The Science Center is a new university teaching and research laboratory facility for the Departments of Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. Additional program elements include a 70-person lecture hall, typical support spaces, faculty offices, administration spaces, and faculty-student interaction areas. The new building responds to a significantly expanded science curriculum at Millikin University, and establishes an overall identity for the scientific community on the campus. The Science Center houses the three departments in a manner that supports collaboration while preserving departmental identity. Shared spaces include lobbies, classrooms, and interaction areas. To encourage the sharing of ideas and information, teaching laboratories have been grouped on the north side of the building, with research laboratories arranged along the south. The lab block includes a wide program bay for teaching labs and a narrow bay for research labs, and is wrapped in brick to match the existing buildings on campus. Faculty offices and administrative areas are clustered around student study rooms and lounges, expressed as sculptural forms at both ends of the building; these forms are sheathed in a more contemporary vocabulary of glass curtainwall and metal panel to complement the brick exterior of the lab block. Stairways connecting these office clusters have been located to provide opportunities for socializing and collegial exchange among faculty members. A semicircular form on the building's west end, containing the offices and a conference room, contrasts with the long rectangular laboratory and classroom block. The greenhouse is located on the roof level and its form mirrors the curved roof of the mechanical penthouse.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management, Tang Center

Location: Cambridge, MA
Size: 44,000 gsf
Construction Cost: $11,400,000
Completion Date: 1995
Program: Teaching facility for Management Education
Services: Design, construction administration

The Tang Center supports the innovative teaching methods and professional development programs of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management. The program includes a 300-seat auditorium, four discussion classrooms ranging from 75 to 130 seats, a corporate resource center for placement and recruitment, and an array of meeting rooms and offices. All teaching facilities incorporate sophisticated audio-visual and computer technology, and are designed to encourage interactive learning. Generous lobby, break-out, and lounge spaces facilitate intensive use of the building by 300 graduate students, faculty, and staff, and enable the Sloan School to host distinguished speakers, conferences, and other social events. The lecture-hall foyer is furnished with couches and armchairs and serves as a student lounge. The spare but elegant lobby can accommodate a range of social functions from an impromptu lunchtime seminar to a reception for a guest lecturer. With such appealing interactive spaces, the Tang Center has become the social, as well as academic, hub of the Sloan School. The major design intent of the building's exterior was to reflect the forward-looking aspects of the management education program, while harmonizing with overall campus architecture. The project received Honor Awards for Design Excellence from the Boston Society of Architects and the New England Region of the American Institute of Architects.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Main Group Classroom Renovations, Phases 1, 2, and 3

Location: Cambridge, MA
Size: 12,000 gsf
Construction Cost: $3,000,000
Completion Date: 2003
Program: Renovations and audio-visual upgrades of classrooms in MIT's Main Group buildings
Services: Design, construction administration

Over the past 30 years, Ellenzweig has programmed and designed more than 40 new and renovated classrooms and lecture halls on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus. This collaboration has been an on-going investigation into the highest standards of classroom design. The most recent project is the Main Group Classroom Renovations, which to date has included the renovation of 11 classrooms. Classrooms included in this project phase are used primarily by the Departments of Architecture, Civil Engineering, Humanities, Mechanical Engineering, and Ocean Engineering. The Main Group classrooms were programmed and designed in close consultation with a high-ranking interdisciplinary client team to create learning environments that integrate current and emerging trends in teaching. The classrooms that resulted from this process include full multi-media capabilities, supported by sophisticated lighting, user-friendly touch screen panel systems, and optimal acoustical conditions, with provisions for the future implementation of distance learning instruction. The multi-zone, dimmable, indirect fluorescent lighting is energy efficient and supports simultaneous chalkboard and projection use. The audio-visual systems provide for multiple projection sources, web-based teaching, and for future upgrades. All of these elements were coordinated and integrated in an understated design that emphasizes natural lighting, warm and durable materials, and the thoughtful integration of classroom technologies in the interest of the faculty and students.

Lawrence University - Science Hall

Location: Appleton, WI
Size: 74,000 gsf addition
Construction Cost: $15,000,000
Completion Date: 2001
Program: Science teaching building for Chemistry, Biology, and Physics
Services: Programming, lab planning, full architectural design, construction administration

This science building at Lawrence University houses expanded facilities for the Departments of Chemistry, Biology, and Physics. It is designed to support a highly investigative, “hands-on” approach towards instruction in the natural sciences. Teaching laboratories feature modular benches where students work collaboratively in small groups. Expanded research lab facilities provide dedicated space for student research. The lowest level of the building features two advanced physics research laboratories (including an X-ray lab) where students conduct experiments in solid-state and liquid-crystal phase transitions. The first and second floors house laboratory and support space for general and analytic chemistry, biochemistry, physical chemistry, and instrumental analysis. The third floor houses teaching and research laboratories for courses in biology, microbiology, genetics, and animal behavior. Science Hall includes many different spaces designed to encourage interdisciplinary and interdepartmental interaction. The first floor houses a shared chemistry/biology computer lab, and an adjacent computing lab is available for drop-in use by students from anywhere on campus. The largest interaction space is a central atrium, serving as the main entrance to the building and Youngchild Hall, which houses the remainder of the natural sciences program. The atrium is used for meetings, poster sessions, receptions, and small-group study for the science disciplines, and has evolved into a central meeting space for the entire campus community. The exterior materials used for Science Hall complement the existing buildings on campus. Ashlar limestone is featured on the main façade facing the campus, and is the primary material of the atrium walls. The juxtaposition of rough-hewn stone with the atrium's glass walls creates a space that connects the inside space with the outside. Repeating other campus materials, the rest of the building features warm-colored precast concrete and metal panels.

Lafayette College - Hugel Hall Science Center

Location: Easton, PA
Size: 46,000 gsf addition, 54,000 gsf renovation
Construction Cost: $19,000,000
Completion Date: 2001
Program: Science teaching building for Chemistry and Physics
Services: Master planning, programming, lab planning, full architectural design, construction administration

To best serve its significantly revised, innovative curriculum, Lafayette College sought “a forward-looking and versatile building” that could be built within the College's budget and site constraints. The addition and the renovation of existing laboratory space achieve the College's goals by providing contemporary teaching laboratories, research labs, classrooms, computer facilities, seminar rooms, faculty offices, lecture halls, and student lounges to serve the Chemistry and Physics Departments. Within the Science Center, the public spaces, including lobbies and lecture halls, are located on the first floor, with teaching labs and support spaces housed on the upper floors. Lecture halls and chemistry teaching labs are located in the new addition, while the Physics Department spaces and Chemistry research labs and offices are located in renovated areas. To reduce costly duct runs, the Physics Department is located on the ground and first floors, and the Chemistry Department is housed on the second and third floors. Clad in brick and glass with cast-stone trim, the distinctive corner rotunda of Hugel Hall provides a new focal point for entering the Chemistry and Physics complex, which comprises both the new addition and the renovated science building. Visible from the main campus quadrangle, the new addition strengthens the identity of the scientific disciplines on campus while also establishing a significant presence along the streetscape. Building materials reflect those of adjacent facilities, and while related to existing campus buildings, the architectural vocabulary of Hugel Hall also conveys a sense of the future.

Iowa State University - Hach Hall Chemistry Building

Location: Ames, Iowa
Size: 140,000 gsf
Construction Cost: $55 million
Completion Date: 2010
Program: Department of Chemistry; research laboratories for synthetic, analytical/ physical, chemistry teaching labs, mass spectroscopy suite, NMR suite, lab support, classrooms, faculty offices, conference rooms and lecture halls
Services: Programming, lab planning, architectural design

Ellenzweig provided programming, feasibility study, and design services for a new chemistry building and renovations to an existing science building. The building achieved LEED Gold certification. The program includes analytical and synthetic research labs; space for shared instrumentation; organic, inorganic, physical, instrumentation, and general chemistry teaching labs that support an interactive laboratory learning environment; gathering spaces for faculty and students that encourage social and informal interactions; and office and administration space. Ellenzweig served as Design Architect and Lab/Instructional Facilities Planner and Designer in association with OPN Architects, Architect of Record.

Iowa State University - Coover Hall Addition and Renovation

Location: Ames, IA
Size: 41,000 gsf addition (Phase I); 53,000 gsf renovation (Phase II)
Construction Cost: $23,350,000 (estimated for both phases)
Completion Date: 2008 (Phase I), Phase II to be determined
Program: Teaching facility for Electrical and Computer Engineering
Services: Master planning, feasibility study, programming, lab planning, full architectural design

The new addition and renovations to the Coover Hall Engineering Building at Iowa State University provide new classrooms, teaching and research engineering laboratories, and meeting space, as well as a new interdisciplinary research suite where vibration-sensitive laser research is conducted. The addition was designed for maximum flexibility and incorporates raised floor technology in the laboratories for under-floor distribution of HVAC, network, and power. The project was designed in accordance with principles of sustainable design, incorporating energy conservation, air quality, water conservation, storm drainage detention, and other sustainable design features. Key design challenges for this project included creating via the addition a new, forward-thinking physical image for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, incorporating the additional building program on the highly constrained site, and strategizing the addition and renovations to minimize disruption to the ongoing academic programs of the department during construction. The project was organized as a two-phased construction process, with the first phase consisting of the addition, and the second refurbishing existing Coover Hall. Ellenzweig served as Design Architect and Laboratory/Education Facilities Planner in association with OPN Architects, Inc., Architect of Record.

Dickinson College - Tome Multidisciplinary Science Center

Location: Carlisle, PA
Size: 48,700 gsf
Construction Cost: $9,800,000
Completion Date: 1999
Program: Science teaching building for Physics/Astronomy and Mathematics/Computer Science
Services: Feasibility study, programming, lab planning, full architectural design, construction administration

This teaching building for the Departments of Physics/Astronomy and Mathematics/Computer Science encourages interdisciplinary studies in a facility that provides for advanced instructional technology and interactive pedagogy. The building houses teaching and research laboratories, classrooms and lecture halls, conference and seminar rooms, faculty offices and a reading room/library, as well as a planetarium and observatory. Specialized physics laboratories and classrooms support Dickinson's nationally acclaimed “Workshop Physics” collaborative model with central demonstration areas surrounded by T-shaped benches functioning alternately for experiments and shared computer operations. Similar interactive classrooms are provided for mathematics and computer science. The L-shaped building plan provides shared spaces at the intersection of the two wings that enclose a garden and outdoor classroom. The building exterior features the predominant campus material - a local limestone - on campus façades and stucco on the private “garden” sides. The building form expresses important program elements: the lecture hall and library are contained in an angled stone-clad form at one end, and the planetarium and observatory are located at the other, in a dramatic metal-clad conical form, contrasting with the rough-hewn stone. The planetarium/observatory element is separated from the main façade by a delicate glass lobby, providing separate access for the public. The Tome Science Building received Honor Awards for Excellence in Architecture from both the American Institute of Architects (AIA) New England Regional Council and the Boston Society of Architects (local AIA chapter), and an Educational Facilities Design Excellence Award given jointly by the Boston Society of Architects and the Society for College and University Planning.

Clark University - Traina Center for the Arts

Location: Worcester, MA
Size: 5,000 gsf addition, 28,000 gsf renovation
Construction Cost: $6,200,000
Completion Date: 2002
Program: Teaching and performance facility for Department of Visual and Performing Arts
Services: Programming, design, construction administration

The project involved the adaptive reuse/renovation and new addition for an historic, early 20th-century building, formerly used as a schoolhouse. The facility serves as the new home for the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Clark University; the renovated building houses art studios, classrooms, a media center, electronic music studio, offices, and an exhibit space. The addition houses a 194-seat recital hall for music performances, lectures, and film screenings, as well as a lobby/break-out space. As the hall serves the general public as well as the University community, it has a separate, prominent entry that is directly accessible from the street. The faculty of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts desired that the renovated and new facilities "announce" their new occupancy and communicate the energy and mission of their department. The design solution is intended to reflect this outlook. The architecture of the new addition features the red brick of the original building; its contemporary rendering serves as a counterpoint to the traditional forms of the original schoolhouse. The recital hall is housed in a simple, rectangular form with a curved roof, reflecting its interior configuration. The lobby areas were created out of the spaces between the existing and the new buildings, with maximum transparency to the exterior to communicate openness and welcome. The lobby interiors employ a combination of wood paneling, brick, and metal panels.

Augustana College - Science Building

Location: Rock Island, IL
Size: 110,000 gsf
Construction Cost: $18,500,000
Completion Date: 1998
Program: Science teaching building for Chemistry, Biology, and Physics
Services: Lab planning, full architectural design, construction administration

This new building consolidates the previously dispersed Departments of Chemistry, Biology, and Physics. The program includes teaching and research laboratories, animal care facilities, classrooms, offices, and support space. Additional program elements include seminar and conference rooms, a lecture hall, computer provisions, chemical storage, a darkroom, equipment rooms, radiochemistry laboratories, a greenhouse, NMR/mass spectrometer facilities, electron microscope facilities, and growth chambers. The major architectural challenge was to design a building that would accommodate a very large program while remaining compatible with neighboring buildings much smaller in scale and with the park-like setting of the campus. The design solution responds by organizing the massing into three components, each identified with an internal function. The laboratories are housed in a long, linear block oriented along the north-south axis of the site; classrooms and lecture halls are located in a narrow rectangular wing with gable ends running perpendicular to the laboratory block; and faculty offices are contained in a cylindrical structure, visible primarily from the west. The entire building is clad in amber-toned brick, similar in color to adjacent campus buildings. These diverse individual elements of the program converge in the lobbies, the communal spaces, and the roof terrace, which are oriented toward views of the meadow and the campus. The focal space of the entire building - the Commons - is a three-story polygonal atrium featuring a skylight and is linked by a grand helical stair. Internal in character, this space was designed to foster informal gatherings and interchange among students and faculty.

Research

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - Marine Research Building

Location: Woods Hole, MA
Size: 30,000 gsf
Construction Cost: $9,200,000
Completion Date: 2006
Program: Research laboratory building for marine biology
Services: Master planning, programming, lab planning, full architectural design, construction administration

The Marine Research Building is one of two new research buildings designed by Ellenzweig under a new campus master plan prepared by Ellenzweig and Stephen Stimson Associates, landscape architects. The building includes both general and specialized biology research and development space related to marine activities, including flexible wet labs, a scanner facility, necropsy facility, clean room and mass spectrometer labs, spaces for instrument development and fabrication, marine acoustics research, and a marine research archive. The building houses eight Principal Investigators and 45 research staff. The second floor includes continuous suites of lab and office spaces with nodes for interaction along the way. The separate office areas encourage researcher interaction while still providing direct access to lab spaces. The first floor contains specialized research space and a service yard for access to the staging, necropsy, and scanning functions. The building massing stretches between two hillsides on campus, affording entries at both the Lower and Upper Campus levels and linking two previously disconnected campus areas. The exterior is clad in white-cedar siding, curtainwall with sunshades, and zinc cladding at the penthouse. The wood siding is a nod to Cape Cod's most prevalent building material, and is intended to weather to a soft gray to match adjacent buildings on campus. The building design has been guided by green building principles, including preservation of open space, use of heat recovery, use of both wet and dry scrubbers for exhaust systems, sunshades for solar control, use of renewable resources, and many other features.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - Biogeochemistry Research Building

Location: Woods Hole, MA
Size: 33,500 gsf
Construction Cost: $10,500,000
Completion Date: 2006
Program: Research laboratory building for Biology, Marine Chemistry, and Geochemistry
Services: Master planning, programming, lab planning, full architectural design, construction administration

One of two new research buildings designed by Ellenzweig under a new campus master plan (prepared by Ellenzweig and Stephen Stimson Associates, landscape architects), the Biogeochemistry Research Building is an interdisciplinary research facility for the Departments of Biology, Marine Chemistry, and Geochemistry. The facility provides flexible research space for 10 Principal Investigators (P.I.'s) and 35 research associates. The overall building program includes labs, lab support, equipment suites, clean rooms, offices, conference room, and common room/lounge. The building is organized into three principal areas: a rectangular block providing flexible space for labs and lab support functions, an office area shaped into a gentle curve on the principal entry side, and a slightly separate two-story volume housing a conference room and lounge. The continuous lab zone provides an efficient service distribution system, permits flexibility in ongoing lab re-allocations, and allows researchers from different disciplines to work in close proximity. The lab support zone, directly adjacent to the lab areas, provides easy access to support functions such as autoclaves, microscopy rooms, and cold rooms. Offices for P.I.'s, post-docs, and grad students are grouped together across from the labs, encouraging researcher interaction while providing good proximity to lab areas. The exterior is clad in white-cedar siding and white curtainwall, with zinc panels on penthouse walls. The cedar siding emulates a prominent material of the local Cape Cod context, rendered in a more contemporary idiom, and is intended to weather to a soft gray to match some of the adjacent structures on the Institution's Quissett Campus. The building design has been guided by green building principles, including preservation of open space, use of heat recovery, use of both wet and dry scrubbers for exhaust systems, sunshades for solar control, use of renewable resources, and many other features.

University of Pennsylvania - Life Sciences Building

Location: Philadelphia, PA
Size: 110,000 gsf
Construction Cost: $44,000,000
Completion Date: 2006
Program: Research and teaching building for the life sciences
Services: Master planning and feasibility study, programming, lab planning, full architectural design, construction administration

To assist the School of Arts and Sciences in developing contemporary research and teaching laboratories, classrooms, and related support space for the Departments of Biology, including Genomics, and Psychology, Ellenzweig prepared a master plan and programming study that considered over 220,000 gross square feet of facilities. We worked closely with individual users from the School of Arts and Sciences, a larger group of University user representatives, the facilities department, and the administration in developing a detailed facility program. The Carolyn Lynch Laboratory Building - an outgrowth of that plan - fulfills the objective of consolidating research space for the life sciences. The building, which is LEED certified, provides 110,000 gross square feet of research laboratories, a vivarium, research greenhouse, plant growth facility, and faculty offices. The laboratory segments are joined by open, glass-enclosed common spaces that include conference rooms, lounges, and vertical circulation. Exterior finish materials respond to the very differing site edges. Along University Avenue, the building features a masonry and glass façade, with transparency marking the research community spaces where the building segments meet. The Garden façade features extensive glass to maximize views and create a reflective, rather than obtrusive, edge. The A number of notable existing buildings, including the Leidy Laboratory and Louis Kahn's Richards Laboratory, were included in the scope of the original planning study; the Botanical Gardens were another existing landmark integral to the planning process. The design of the new building gives priority to providing natural daylight in laboratories and offices and to maximizing views to the adjacent Biology Pond and Botanical Gardens. Completing the edge of the Botanical Gardens, the building also defines the University edge along the public street with its welcoming entries.

University of Massachusetts - Engineering Research Building

Location: Amherst, MA
Size: 57,000 gsf
Construction Cost: $20,000,000
Completion Date: 2004
Program: Research laboratory building for Civil, Environmental, and Chemical Engineering and campus-wide Learning Center
Services: Programming, lab planning, design

The Engineering Research Building houses the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Chemical Engineering. The building consists of two components: a laboratory block, which is three stories above grade, and the Learning Center, housed in a circular two-story volume. The Learning Center is available for campus-wide use, and includes a 195-seat lecture hall and a 35-seat distance learning classroom. The program includes engineering research laboratories, lab support areas, team write-up and work areas, offices, conference room, and the lecture hall and classroom. All laboratory areas are based on flexible planning modules, allowing the building to be configured into single- and multiple-module laboratories; typical floors were designed to accommodate future reconfiguration. Exterior building materials - brick, metal, and glass - were selected to respond to existing campus buildings. The lobby functions as an architectural thoroughfare for the campus, connecting it to lower-level parking areas. Ellenzweig served as Architect-of-Record, Lab Planner, and Design Architect; Whitney Atwood Norcross served as Associate Architect.

University of Florida - Genetics and Cancer Research Center

Location: Gainesville, Florida
Size: 280,000 gsf
Construction Cost: $77,000,000
Completion Date: 2006
Program: Biomedical research building for genetics, cancer, biotechnology; State forensics facility
Services: Program verification, lab planning, and architectural design

The new 280,000 gsf, LEED Silver-certified research facility at the University of Florida's Gainesville campus includes two components: the Genetics and Cancer Research Center (GCRC) and the Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research (ICBR) laboratory pavilion. The GCRC is a multidisciplinary biomedical research facility for the University of Florida Genetics Institute and its Cancer Center; it also houses administrative operations. The building program includes a Forensics Facility, vivarium, biocontainment laboratories, and other core laboratory functions. The project also includes a 4,000-ton cooling tower facility remote from the main building, providing chilled water for the new structure. The new research facility provides the Genetics Institute and the Cancer Center with laboratory space to increase the level of funded grant research, and affords efficiencies in operation through the consolidation of core support facilities. Core facilities in the GCRC include a micro-array lab, bioinformatics suite, gene transfer lab, and a greenhouse. The Biotechnology Laboratory Pavilion provides 20,000 net square feet for the research, training, and administrative operations of the ICBR, formerly located in six different facilities. The core laboratory facilities in the ICBR will be utilized by the research programs conducted in the GCRC as well as other campus-wide entities. These core facilities include an electron microscopy suite (SEM, TEM), a molecular services suite, and a mass spectrometry lab. The exterior of the building has been designed in sympathy to the predominant architecture of the Gainesville campus, using “Gainesville red” brick and a vertical organization of façade elements to reflect the Tudor/Gothic overtones of some of the older campus buildings. The project has been designed in concert with the USGBC LEED™ guidelines, and will achieve basic LEED™ certification. Ellenzweig served as Design Architect and Laboratory Planner in association with Hunton Brady Architects, Architect-of-Record.

University of Florida - Biomedical Sciences Building

Location: Gainesville, Florida
Size: 160,000 gsf
Construction Cost: $73,000,000
Completion Date: 2008
Program: Biomedical research
Services: Site planning, programming, lab planning, and architectural design

The new Biomedical Sciences Building provides flexible research labs and support, a 45,000 sf vivarium, offices, lounges, and conference rooms for the University's Biomedical Engineering Department of the College of Engineering, Animal Care Services, and medical research programs in neuroscience, autoimmune diseases, and stem cell biology. The building also houses a large teaching laboratory dedicated to undergraduate life sciences research in collaboration with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The red brick building features extensive glass on the north and west façades. A two-story, glass-walled atrium provides an attractive lobby and mark the main entrance to the building. The project also included exterior improvements to adjacent walkways and service areas. The Biomedical Sciences Building unites two existing, occupied buildings. The project achieved LEED Gold certification. Ellenzweig served as Design Architect and Lab Planner, working with Hunton Brady Architects, Architect of Record.

University of Chicago - Gordon Center for Integrative Science

Location: Chicago, IL
Size: 427,000 gsf
Construction Cost: $135,000,000
Completion Date: 2005
Program: Research laboratory building for Chemistry, Biology, and Physics
Services: Program verification, lab planning, full architectural design, construction administration

The new Gordon Center for Integrative Science supports the University of Chicago's goal of conducting research at the frontier of contemporary science and facilitates the collaborative and integrative nature of evolving multidisciplinary science. The Center houses the Biological and Physical Sciences Divisions, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the James Franck Institute, the Ben May Institute for Cancer Research, and the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics. The facility provides for basic research at the molecular level and combines the traditional disciplines of chemistry with structural molecular biology and biochemistry. The building program includes medical research labs; biochemistry and molecular biology labs; physical science labs for cryogenics, optics, and laser-based research; and synthetic chemistry and chemical biology labs. Specialized facilities include a 24,500 sf vivarium with isolation suite, X-ray processing room, molecular modeling center, meeting/symposium center, fluorescence microscopy suite, flow cytometry lab, radioisotope labs, crystallography suite, and electronics shop. Research support functions include NMR labs; imaging facilities; computer rooms; clean rooms; and core facilities to include X-ray diffraction, microscopy, proteomics, gene sequencing, and microarray. The three-story atrium functions as the interactive center of the complex; conference rooms and informal dining facilities are located in and adjacent to this transparent space overlooking the Science Quad. Lounges and meeting spaces are dispersed throughout the building, taking advantage of views, to promote gathering and informal discussion and to support the collaborative mission of the program. Design responses to the building's size and scale, and to connections with the University's urban campus, are key elements of the architecture. To maintain openness within the Quad and relate spatially to the existing science library, the building takes on a triangular form; an open two-story passageway at the building's colonnaded entry leads into the Science Quad. Limestone, metal, and glass articulate the façade. A transparent block containing offices, meeting rooms, and a secondary entry marks the intersection of South Drexel Avenue and 57th Street. The Chilled Water Plant that terminates the complex is integrated with the overall design, sharing its transparency and materials.

SUNY ESF - New Academic Research Building

Location: Syracuse, New York
Size: 101,300 gsf
Completion Date: 2014
Program: Environmental and Forest Biology Research
Services: Programming, laboratory design, full architectural design and construction administration

The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF) focuses solely on the study of the natural and designed environment. The New Academic Research Building will accommodate wet and dry laboratories for environmental research and biology, support space, greenhouses, exhibition and gallery space, and academic office space. In accordance with the College's mission of environmental stewardship, the New Academic Research Building will achieve LEED Platinum Certification. Ellenzweig is serving as Architect of Record, Design Architect, and Laboratory Planner, working with Associate Architect, Holmes King Kallquist.

Stanford University - Lorry I. Lokey Laboratory for Chemistry and Biological Sciences

Location: Stanford, CA
Size: 85,000 gsf
Construction Cost: $42,000,000
Completion Date: 2003
Program: Research laboratory building for Chemistry and Biology
Services: Programming, lab planning, architectural design

The new research building provides modular laboratories for molecular and cell biology and advanced organic synthesis chemistry. The building also includes faculty offices, lounges, common rooms, and various lab support facilities. On the Biology floor, Principal Investigator (PI) offices are located adjacent to labs, and four PI offices are grouped together at the center of the building. A common room and conference room are located near one building entry. Shared and dedicated support spaces form a “layer” of space between labs and corridor. Each Chemistry research floor houses 10 lab modules, each supporting six researchers. Offices, common rooms, computer rooms, and conference rooms are grouped at either end of the building; special lab support and interaction areas are located in the center of the lab block. The building exterior responds to the historic Stanford campus context while acknowledging the future-oriented research taking place in the building. Major exterior materials include a clay tile roof, limestone walls, and curtainwall with metal panel inserts. Ellenzweig served as Design Architect and Laboratory Planner in association with Dowler-Gruman Architects, Architect-of-Record.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - McGovern Institute and Picower Center

Location: Cambridge, MA
Size: 22,000 gsf
Construction Cost: $5,600,000
Completion Date: 2003
Program: Research labs and office headquarters
Services: Building assessment study, programming, lab planning, full architectural design, construction administration

This renovation project took place in a seven-story, 148,000 sf former office building at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Originally built as a candy factory, Building E-19 has concrete, mushroom-column construction and a floor-to-floor height of only 11 feet. Space on the third and fifth floors was renovated to provide 18,500 sf of research laboratory space and 3,500 sf of headquarter offices for the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Picower Center for Learning and Memory. A significant project driver was MIT's immediate need to accommodate newly hired researchers and recruit additional researchers, which necessitated a highly aggressive project schedule. Following a building assessment study, program confirmation, design, and construction documents were completed in a time-span of less than five months, and were overlapped with construction activities to deliver the laboratory space less than nine months from the project start. Ellenzweig worked with MIT and the construction manager to develop a design, review, and delivery process that would meet the tight schedule while providing a high level of design quality - all while responding to the needs of the researchers and maintaining firm budget control. The design of the completed laboratories provides a high degree of openness to support communication among researchers and access to natural light, combined with a simple and maintainable palette of finishes and high-quality artificial lighting. An approach to security was developed that provides for controlled access to corridors and laboratories that support behavioral experiments using animals. A high degree of flexibility was achieved in the labs by the use of the modular, demountable lab casework system, and by providing adequate laboratory services to accommodate changes.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Size: 354,000 gsf
Completion Date: 2010
Program: Cancer research, including cellular biology, molecular genetics, and engineering
Services: Program Verification, Laboratory Planning and Design, Architectural Planning and Design

Ellenzweig provided programming verification, feasibility study, laboratory planning and design, and architectural design services for the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. The building, now in construction, was designed to achieve LEED Gold certification. The program includes research and core laboratories for the Center for Cancer Research and engineers dedicated to cancer research, as well as lab support, vivarium, conference facilities, meeting spaces, cafeteria, offices, and administrative functions. The design responds to MIT's goals for the building and its site, which included: expansion to accommodate current research needs with the capacity and flexibility to accommodate change; promotion of interaction and to serve the larger MIT research community; support for the Institute’s interaction with the growing life sciences community including the Whitehead and Broad Institutes and the Biology Building; reinforcement of the public edge and pedestrian circulation along Main Street and to the Stata Center; reinforcement of the potential courtyard shared with Biology, Chemical Engineering, 16/56, and the Stata Center; and definition of the new campus entry from Kendall Square into the MIT complex. Entrances at two major corners - Main and Ames and Main and Vassar Streets - will provide a new gateway to MIT from Kendall Square. The entry space between the new building and the existing Biology Building will become the entry court not only for the building, but for MIT. The design concept provides a distinct identity for the Institute as a part of the developing life sciences complex in Kendall Square. In addition, the massing and articulation of the new building will create a presence that harmonizes with the existing campus in scale and material palette. The organization of the building will be revealed with carefully located entries and selective transparency.

Harvard University - Naito Chemistry Laboratory Building

Location: Cambridge, MA
Size: 60,500 gsf
Construction Cost: $18,000,000
Completion Date: 2000
Program: Chemistry research building
Services: Master planning, lab planning, full architectural design, construction administration

The Naito Chemistry Laboratory Building is part of a 30-year collaboration between Ellenzweig and Harvard University's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. The Naito laboratories were designed to accommodate large research groups led by individual Principal Investigators in Physical Chemistry, Chemical Biology, and Organic Chemistry. Compact benches in the labs are oriented to take advantage of the light provided by extensive curtainwall; write-up areas are treated with acoustic canopies and are partially enclosed by blackboards to afford privacy. Support facilities include faculty offices, conference rooms, exhibit areas, and other casual social spaces to promote collegial interaction. The exterior design responds sympathetically to the variety of architectural styles that characterize the Cabot Complex. Glass is used extensively to lighten the effect of the exterior façade on the tight science quadrangle and the neighboring Peabody Museum, while the sandstone relates well to the brick used in this part of the campus. The circular mechanical penthouse readily identifies the Naito Building.

Harvard University - Bauer Laboratory Building and Center for Genomics Research

Location: Cambridge, MA
Size: 61,500 gsf
Construction Cost: $27,500,000
Completion Date: 2002
Program: Research building for Life Sciences and Center for Genomics Research
Services: Lab planning, full architectural design, construction administration

The Bauer Laboratory Building and Center for Genomics Research is one of the most recent projects in a 30-year collaboration between Ellenzweig and Harvard University's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. The Bauer Building extends the Naito Chemistry Building - also designed by Ellenzweig (completed in 2000) - and unifies three formerly disconnected buildings, completing the quadrangle of the Cabot Science Complex. The Bauer Laboratory was designed to bring together research fellows (as opposed to permanent faculty) from Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science. The space is highly flexible, providing completely transparent labs for genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics; the building also includes a robotics fabrication facility. Research labs contain some fixed elements at the perimeter, but feature overhead service racks in the majority of lab areas, allowing for flexibility in the positioning of equipment and lab benches, and permitting easy reconfiguration of research functions and lab layout over time. The built-in flexibility of the Bauer Building is so complete that it can be converted to full chemistry use, if required in the future. Support spaces include faculty offices, conference rooms, an exhibit area, a cyber café, lab-floor meeting rooms, and other casual social spaces to promote collegial interaction. In consideration of the exceptionally constrained site, over 30,000 square feet of program space is located underground in an expansive basement extending to the north and south from the building under two courtyards included in the project. The underground area links Naito and Bauer with the entire Cabot Science complex; the new pedestrian landscape and a three-story glass bridge also enhance connections between buildings. The exterior design responds sympathetically to the variety of architectural styles that characterize the Cabot Complex. Glass lightens the effect of the exterior façade on the tight science quadrangle and the neighboring Peabody Museum, while the sandstone relates well to the brick used in this part of the campus.

Infrastructure

University of Chicago - Gordon Center for Integrative Science Chiller Facility

Location: Chicago, IL
Size: 28,500 gsf
Construction Cost: $9,000,000
Completion Date: 2005
Program: Chilled water plant to serve CIS research facility
Services: Design, construction administration

The Chiller Facility provides 4,000 tons of chilled water and emergency power to the new 427,000 gsf Gordon Center for Integrative Science research building, also designed by Ellenzweig. For efficient delivery of materials and removal of waste, the Chiller Facility is built directly above the main loading dock of the Center. The Chiller Facility is simultaneously resolved as an integral component of the Research Facility and a structure sympathetic to the immediately surrounding context of academic buildings and pedestrian landscapes. The primary façades of the Chiller Facility are composed of curtainwall, patterned with clear and translucent glass. Modulated to follow the limestone and metal panel façades of the Gordon Center for Integrative Science, the plant's glass walls are further animated by reflections of the nearby campus buildings. The insets of clear glass allow views of the colorful mechanical equipment housed within, and permit natural light deep into the service spaces of the facility - enhancing the quality and safety of the work environment for plant technicians. In the evening, the backlit translucent glass transforms the Chiller Facility into a beacon for this part of the campus.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cogeneration Plant

Location: Cambridge, MA
Size: 5,500 gsf
Construction Cost: $37,000,000
Completion Date: 1995
Program: Cogeneration plant to provide campus power
Services: Design, construction administration

MIT's Cogeneration Plant produces most of the power and steam for the Institute, and has been designed to celebrate this utilitarian function. The plant is located on a street lined with two-and-three-story industrial and research buildings. Machinery is visible through three-story windows with horizontal grids so that huge ducts appear as sculpture from the street. Between the windows, brick piers relate the building to its neighbors, particularly to the façade of the original MIT steam plant next door. Above the windows, a decorative metal cornice reconciles the differing cornice heights of the adjoining buildings. The result is industrial architecture that enlivens the streetscape while honoring a tradition of architecturally significant utility plants in the Boston area. The building is clad in MIT's familiar buff brick. The main façade incorporates a large translucent panel, with a horizontal grid similar to the windows, which can be removed to install or remove large machinery. A complex array of exhausts and equipment at the roofline is unified by three prominent circular air intakes. The aluminum-paneled penthouse is recessed to reduce its visual impact on the street.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Chilled Water Plant Expansion

Location: Cambridge, MA
Size: 4,400 gsf
Construction Cost: $11,500,000
Completion Date: 2001
Program: Central chilled water plant to serve main campus
Services: Feasibility study, design, construction administration

The expansion of the Chilled Water Plant facility substantially increases the campus-wide central utility capacity of an original 1960's two-story chiller plant. The addition houses a 5,000-ton steam absorption chiller at the main floor level, with associated pumps and equipment at the basement level. The acoustical glass exterior wall displays the entire colorful array of utility systems - machines, piping, and maintenance cranes. The transparency of the chilled water plant addition, along with the end wall treatment, with its brightly colored metal wall and sculptural exit stair, defines the end of the utility complex and marks an important pedestrian path across nearby railroad tracks to a developing area of the campus. The materials - aluminum, steel, glass, and concrete - complement the existing utility complex and express the industrial character of the building. The design of the customized curtainwall façade relates to the adjacent building's mullion lines, yet at the same time distinguishes this latest addition from the older structures. Constructed of colorfully painted light steel framing and woven wire mesh, the temporary egress stair creates an interesting sculptural composition of elements serving utilitarian purposes. The monumental expanse of the main chiller hall, with its extensive natural light and lofty height, is reminiscent of the great industrial plants and water works of the 19th century. The building provides an efficient, well-lighted, 24-hour working environment for plant staff, a lively streetscape, and a welcome beacon throughout the night.

Health Sciences

Yale University School of Medicine - Amistad Laboratory Building Fit-out

Location: New Haven, CT
Size: 120,000 gsf
Construction Cost: $31,900,000
Completion Date: 2007
Program: Biomedical research laboratories
Services: Programming, lab planning, design, construction administration

The project is an interior fit-out, constructed in a completed core and shell building, to provide a new biomedical research facility, and has LEED CI Gold certification. The 120,000 square-foot project encompasses complete fit-out of Floors 1, 2, 3, and 4 as generic research laboratories conforming to Yale School of Medicine guidelines, and fit-out of the basement for a vivarium and general building support space. The vivarium was designed in collaboration with departmental staff members. Other program elements include environmental rooms, microscopy lab, stem cell research capabilities, conference rooms, lounges, and administrative offices. Research laboratories were designed for Yale interdepartmental programs as generic lab modules with flexible casework. The First Floor provides research space for human translational immunobiology; the Second Floor is designated for stem cell research, a portion of which is federally funded. The Third and Fourth Floors are occupied by the vascular biology and transplantation program.

Virginia Commonwealth University - Pharmacy Programming Study and Phased Renovations

Location: Richmond, Virginia
Size: 220,000 gsf (study); 15,000 gsf (renovations)
Construction Cost: $4,000,000 (Phase I)
Completion Date: 2008 (study); 2010 (renovations)
Program: Teaching labs, modular research labs for the Departments of Pharmacy, Medicinal Chemistry, and Pharmaceutics, vivarium, classrooms and lecture halls, faculty offices, administrative space, student spaces and lounge.
Services: Programming, planning, feasibility, and conceptual design.

In 2008, Ellenzweig and BCWH completed a programming and feasibility study for new building and renovation scenarios to provide updated research and teaching facilities for the School of Pharmacy. The study included research labs (including modular research space for the Departments of Pharmacy, Medicinal Chemistry, and Pharmaceutics), vivarium space, teaching labs, classrooms, lecture halls, faculty offices, administrative space, student spaces, and lounge/break-out areas. A new building of 220,000 gsf was programmed. In 2010, the Ellenzweig/BCWH team completed the first phase of 15,000 gsf of renovations to the existing School of Pharmacy building at $3.5 million. Ellenzweig served as Architect for Programming and Conceptual Design, working with BCWH, Architect for Final Design and Construction.

University of Utah - Eccles Health Sciences Education Building

Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Size: 155,000 gsf
Construction Cost: $30,000,000
Completion Date: 2005
Program: Health sciences education laboratories, classrooms, and offices
Services: Design and lab/instructional facilities planning

The Eccles Health Sciences Education Building provides an interdisciplinary, high-technology learning center for the School of Medicine, College of Pharmacy, College of Nursing, and College of Health; it also serves the Eccles Health Center Library, accommodates facilities for hospital staff support training, and houses core academic functions for the School of Medicine. The project is LEED-certified. The project includes over 40 lecture rooms, classrooms, and seminar rooms, all equipped with the latest "smart classroom" technology and computer network access; several of the classrooms are outfitted with distance learning capabilities, strengthening the commitment to distance learning for continuing education and other outreach programs. Flexible teaching labs and a clinical skills suite are included in the building components dedicated to the medical school. The teaching labs for subjects such as histology and microbiology are organized to emphasize small-group, hands-on learning and can be configured in a variety of ways to reflect changing class size. The clinical skills area provides separate circulation for students and standardized patients, maintaining privacy for each. The building also includes numerous social and interaction spaces available for use by students and faculty of the entire Health Sciences complex, including a central atrium, café, student lounges, locker rooms, break-out spaces, bookstore, and flexible function room. Internally, the building is organized along a "pedestrian street" corridor running the entire length of the building, connecting all functions and bridging to the Eccles Health Center Library. This pedestrian street is expressed on the exterior as a glass curtainwall, while the remainder of the building is housed in brick to match adjacent buildings. Toward the main entry, the five-story building steps down to two stories to relate to the scale of the directly adjacent College of Pharmacy building. Here, the building mass is inflected to create an entry plaza; the main entry is directly adjacent to the primary pedestrian pathway that interconnects the entire Health Sciences campus. Ellenzweig served as Design Architect and Educational Facilities Planner, working in association with VCBO Architecture, Architect-of-Record.

University of Maryland Baltimore - Pharmacy Hall Addition and Renovations

Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Size: 127,000 gsf new; 10,000 gsf renovated
Construction Cost: $58 million
Completion Date: 2010
Program: Pharmaceutical teaching and research laboratories, lecture halls, classrooms, common areas, and offices
Services: Programming, laboratory and instructional facilities planning and design, and architectural design

Ellenzweig provided programming, lab/instructional facilities planning and design, and architectural design services for a seven-story addition and limited renovations to Pharmacy Hall. The addition is connected to the existing building via an atrium at the first three floors, and by bridges at the upper four floors. The new facility provides teaching labs, biomedical research labs, lab support space, lecture halls, problem-based learning classrooms, seminar rooms, and faculty and administrative offices. Renovations to the existing Pharmacy Hall building provide new lounge and breakout space, classrooms, study rooms, and teaching labs. The addition is clad in red brick with limestone accents to complement the existing building, with metal panels for the mechanical penthouse and glass curtainwall at the atrium. The project acheived LEED Gold certification. Ellenzweig served as Design Architect and Lab/Instructional Facilities Planner and Designer in association with Richter Cornbrooks Gribble, Architect of Record.

University of Kentucky - College of Pharmacy

Location: Lexington, KY
Size: 285,000 gsf
Construction Cost: $127,000,000
Completion Date: 2010
Program: Science teaching and research building for Pharmaceutical Science, Chemistry, and Biology
Services: Programming, lab planning, pharmacy planning, full architectural design

Ellenzweig provided programming, lab planning, and design services for a new 285,000 gsf research and teaching building for the College of Pharmacy. The program included research labs, teaching labs, lab support, core facilities including pharmaceutical sciences and technology, a 20,000 gsf vivarium, meeting and conference rooms, lecture halls, classrooms, an atrium/commons, and offices for faculty, graduate students, and administration. The new building responds to the University's mission to provide contemporary research and teaching facilities for the College of Pharmacy, allowing the College to expand enrollment to address the shortage of pharmacists in Kentucky. The building consolidates the research and teaching expertise of the eighth-ranked College of Pharmacy in the United States, further strengthening research collaboration among the faculty (presently housed in 11 locations on and off the campus). The building dedication for the Biological Pharmaceutical Complex was held on January 25, 2010. Ellenzweig served as Design Architect, Lab Planner, and Instructional Facilities Planner in association with EOP Architects, Architect of Record.

University of Central Florida - Medical Education Facilities Programming and Design

Location: Orlando, FL
Size: 185,000 gsf
Construction Cost: $60,000,000
Completion Date: 2010
Program: Anatomy suite, clinical skills suite, simulation center, research laboratories, lecture halls, classrooms, small-group learning, and health sciences library
Services: Programming and design of medical education teaching spaces

Ellenzweig provided overall space programming and then design of medical education teaching spaces for this newly formed School of Medicine. The full program includes teaching labs, library, anatomy lab, clinical skills suite, simulation lab suite, seminar rooms, lounges, student areas, and offices. The variety of teaching venues includes large and mid-sized lecture halls, flexible classrooms, and small-group learning seminar rooms. Ellenzweig served as Program and Design Architect for medical education teaching spaces, collaborating with HuntonBrady, who served as Design Architect and Architect of Record.

NEOMED - Research and Graduate Education Complex

Location: Rootstown, OH
Size: 92,000 gsf
Construction Cost: $34 million (estimated)
Completion Date: 2013
Program: Research laboratories, lab support, seminar and conference rooms, faculty offices, mechanical plant, connecting bridge
Services: Master planning, programming, lab planning, design

Ellenzweig is working with Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) to program and design the new Research and Graduate Education Complex, comprised of a new Research and Graduate Education Building, expansion and renovation of the Comparative Medicine Unit (CMU), and the renovation of Building “D” to provide laboratories for public/private partnership use. Program components include research laboratories, lab support, student activities areas, conference rooms, and faculty offices. During the programming phase of work, NEOMED requested that the planning team undertake a Master Planning study to locate the new research and graduate educational facility and the CMU expansion in the context of a 25-year outlook of campus growth. To this end, the team worked with NEOMED to develop a list of probable projects that would occur within this time frame, serving as the basis of the campus growth scenario. The planning effort included development and refinement of build-out options and associated phasing, as well as illustrations of the campus at the conclusion of the first phase and after 25 years of growth. Design of the first phase of the campus expansion, which consists of the new Research and Graduate Education Building, the CMU expansion, and the Building "D" renovation, is underway. The project will achieve, at a minimum, LEED Silver certification. Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) is a community-based, public institution focused on the inter-professional training of health professionals; its mission promotes education, research, and service. NEOMED is a member of the university system of Ohio and its partners include teaching hospitals, community sites and boards of health. Ellenzweig is Program Architect and Design Architect, working with TC Architects, Architect of Record.

Michigan State University - Secchia Center for Medical Education

Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan
Size: 170,000 gsf
Construction Cost: $48 million
Completion Date: 2010
Program: Medical education laboratories, anatomy laboratories, simulation center, microscopy, classrooms, lounges, and offices
Services: Programming, educational facilities planning and design, and architectural design

Ellenzweig provided programming, laboratory and education-facilities planning and design, and architectural design for this new seven-story teaching facility for Michigan State University's College of Human Medicine. The building, which achieved LEED Gold certification, includes teaching labs, research labs, classrooms, library, clinical skills center, simulation center, anatomy labs, virtual microscopy labs, lab support, meeting rooms, lounges, student areas, and offices. The variety of teaching venues includes large and mid-size lecture halls, flexible classrooms, and small-group-learning seminar rooms. The Secchia Center is located in downtown Grand Rapids within the Michigan Street Development, a commercial medical community; Spectrum Health and the Van Andel Institute are across the street. The building is constructed atop an existing five-story parking garage. A significant challenge was designing a new facility and developing a cladding system for the original structure that, when constructed, results in a unified building. A cast stone, of the same light color as the adjacent building, was selected to clad the building and the garage. Metal fins, painted the same color as the stone, fulfill the dual roles of façade accents and sunshades. The roof canopy is an element that further distinguishes the building on its highly visible site overlooking the urban landscape and the Grand River. As stated by President Lou Anna K. Simon, the mission for the Secchia Center is to “bring to life a one-of-a-kind model for medical education and research in the 21st century. This new approach blends key elements of a classical medical education center with MSU’s traditional strength in community-based medical education.” The University regards the project as and opportunity to advance the power of genomic medicine, and significantly advance MSU’s activity in research, both in East Lansing and Grand Rapids. Ellenzweig served as Design Architect and Laboratory/Educational Facilities Planner, working in association with URS, Architect of Record.

Loyola University Chicago - Stritch School of Medicine, Medical Education Building

Location: Maywood, IL
Size: 211,000 gsf
Construction Cost: $32,000,000
Completion Date: 1997; 2011 (simulation center study)
Program: Medical education laboratories, classrooms, offices
Services: Master planning, programming, lab planning, full architectural design, construction administration

The Stritch School of Medicine building continued Ellenzweig's innovative exploration of changing medical education that began at the Harvard Medical School. The Medical Education Center is organized into learning clusters that support independent and small group study - rather than large lecture halls and wet labs. Labs and lecture halls are included, but the broad pedagogical emphasis is to encourage students to learn from one another. The overall program includes multi-purpose classrooms, discussion classroom, large lecture halls, clinical skills suite with separate video viewing area, anatomy labs, microbiology teaching labs, student lounges and activity areas, and administrative offices. The building is organized around a three-story atrium that serves as the social center of the building, for informal meetings as well as more formal presentations and gatherings. In this sense, it serves as a focal point for the entire medical area. The main public spaces - lobby, cafeteria, administrative offices, conference areas - are located on the first floor, connected to the rest of the campus by an enclosed walkway. The medical school facilities are located on the second and fourth floors, where two identical wings contain learning clusters, examination rooms, and small classrooms, similar to the case-method classrooms in many business and law schools. Large windows bring natural light into offices and corridors. The facility is intended as an embodiment of Loyola's commitment to innovative medical education. The combination of metal, glass, and variegated precast-concrete panels in shades of gray creates a dynamic interplay of forms and textures. A metal canopy marks the main entrance, and a gentle curve, expressive of the lecture halls within, offers an effective counterpoint to the rectangular geometry of the rest of the building. In 2011, Ellenzweig completed a study for a clinical integration and simulation center to be located within the Medical Education Building.

Harvard Medical School - Tosteson Medical Education Building

Location: Boston, MA
Size: 69,000 gsf addition, 53,000 gsf renovation
Construction Cost: $17,500,000
Completion Date: 1987
Program: Medical education laboratories, classrooms, and administrative facilities
Services: Programming, full design, construction administration

Design of the Tosteson Medical Education Center evolved from a collaborative planning process between Ellenzweig and the Medical School faculty to develop a building that would support the innovative “New Pathways” curriculum. Modeled after the case-study method used at Harvard's law and business schools, the approach centers on small, tutorial groups and encourages hands-on learning. The curriculum evolved simultaneously with the facility design, with design and spatial organizational concepts often stimulating new ideas for teaching approaches. The teaching areas were designed as flexible skills areas. Each skills area consists of four alcoves with shared workstations, two tutorial spaces, meeting areas for spontaneous lectures, and a 40-student classroom. Study clusters, another important feature that emerged from the planning process, include study carrels, computer areas, faculty offices, and small medical libraries. A three-story sky-lit atrium serves as a gathering place for informal interaction between students and faculty and the "heart" of the building; the Harvard medical societies are located at the perimeter of the atrium. The Tosteson Medical Education Center was the first teaching addition to Harvard Medical School since 1906. The building's exterior extends and complements the original neoclassical marble buildings of the Medical School quadrangle.

Eastern Virginia Medical School - Medical Education and Research Building

Location: Norfolk, VA
Size: 100,500 gsf new; 70,400 gsf renovation
Construction Cost: $52,000,000
Completion Date: 2011
Program: Laboratories and support, core labs and vivarium, anatomy lab, clinical skills/simulation center, lecture halls, classrooms, and offices
Services: Programming, lab planning, and design services

The project consists of the new Medical Education and Research Building, as well as renovations to the existing Jones Institute/Lewis Hall/Brickell Library complex, to provide contemporary research and teaching facilities for the Medical School and the School of Health Professions. Program components include laboratories and support, core labs, anatomy lab, clinical skills/simulation center, lecture halls, classrooms, offices, and a non-human primate vivarium. The project is designed to achieve LEED Silver certification. Ellenzweig is serving as Design Architect and Lab/Instructional Facilities Planner, working with Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas and Company, Architect of Record.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts DCAM/DMH - New Psychiatric Hospital

Location: Worcester, MA
Size: 433,000 gsf
Construction Cost: $250,000,000
Completion Date: 2012
Program: Patient housing and mental and physical health care facilities for 320 adults and adolescents in a village-like setting, including dining services, classrooms, retail, library, bank, medical and dental clinics, pharmacy, and conference center
Services: Programming, site analysis and planning, design, construction administration

The new psychiatric hospital, now in construction, will consolidate two existing mental health facilities: the Westborough State Hospital and the Worcester State Hospital. The new hospital will serve as a secure, chronic care facility, with 260 adult beds and 60 adolescent beds. Working closely with our associate architect, architecture+ of Troy, New York, Ellenzweig (Design Architect and Architect of Record) provided programming, site analysis, and design of the new facility, and is now providing construction administration services. The Massachusetts agencies directing and administering the project are the Division of Capital Asset Management and the Department of Mental Health. The new hospital is the largest building project ever undertaken by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is highly complex. The Massachusetts Department of Mental Health included over 100 staff members in the programming process alone, with program approval requiring the consensus of over 300 stakeholders, psychiatric treatment professionals, and specialized planners and designers. A central programmatic goal was to create an architectural response which directly supports a therapeutic program to promote patient emergence and recovery, as opposed to the historically employed custodial model. Programmatic elements within the recovery model include clusters of eight to 10 bedrooms that share a common living space and dining areas that each serve three of these clusters; therapeutic treatment areas each serve up to 78 patients. The hospital is designed as a village-like setting to promote patient recovery, providing all of the functions for everyday life, including retail shops, a bank, library, hair salon, gymnasium and fitness facilities, art and craft learning areas, medical and dental clinics, pharmacy, classrooms, a music room, chapel, and conference center. The building is designed to achieve LEED Gold certification.

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Abramson Pediatric Research Center

Location: Philadelphia, PA
Size: 549,000 gsf
Construction Cost: $138,000,000
Completion Date: 2003
Program: Biomedical research laboratories and administrative facilities
Services: Master planning, programming, lab planning, full architectural design, construction administration

Ellenzweig designed the Abramson Pediatric Research Center for The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to consolidate the biomedical research activities of this prominent institution into one 13-story facility. When completed in 1995, the 429,000 gsf building accommodated more than 800 scientists and staff, making it one of the largest biomedical research centers in the country. Future growth was anticipated, however, and the building was designed to support a major expansion. Ellenzweig designed a 120,000 gsf, nine-story addition to the building which was completed in 2003. Designed to blend seamlessly with the original structure, the addition expresses the same detailing, materials, and organization of the base building. The complex program includes 87 research laboratories and related laboratory support for more than 1,200 scientists and staff, many of whom hold joint appointments at the Hospital and the University of Pennsylvania. Included in the building are a research animal facility, conference center, administrative offices, trustee boardroom, lounge and office space, cafeteria, and below-grade parking. Flexibility was a major issue for a research facility of this scope, and is achieved with generic 12-person labs that can be alternatively configured for two or three researchers per 15-foot bench to accommodate smaller or larger research groups. The typical laboratory module allows for the future expansion of the research staff by up to 50 percent, from 12 to 18 researchers per module. Laboratories include in-lab support space, dedicated/shared support spaces, and specialized core lab facilities such as an NMR lab, a nucleic acid protein core, a cytogenetics lab, mass spectrometry lab, and an image analysis lab. Designed to complement its surroundings, the exterior respects the surrounding campus buildings. Glass curtainwalls identify the laboratories; conference and seminar rooms occupy the transparent corner towers; detailed concrete panels mark administrative offices.

Central Michigan University, School of Medicine - Medical School Building Addition

Location: Mount Pleasant, MI
Size: 62,500 gsf
Construction Cost: $15,000,000
Completion Date: 2011
Program: Teaching labs, anatomy labs, classrooms, clinical skills suite, lounges, and offices
Services: Programming, lab planning, and design of interior spaces

Programming, lab planning, and design for new medical education facilities for this newly established School of Medicine including teaching labs, anatomy labs, classrooms, clinical skills suite, lounges, and offices. The building is registered to achieve LEED Silver certification. Ellenzweig served as Program Architect and Design Architect for the interior spaces in a collaboration with URS Corporation, Architect of Record and Design Architect for the core and shell.

Brown University, Alpert Medical School - New Medical School in Historic Building

Location: Providence, RI
Size: 134,000
Construction Cost: $32,000,000
Completion Date: 2011
Program: All medical school functions including clinical skills suite, simulation suite, anatomy labs, lecture halls, seminar rooms, case-method classrooms, student spaces, admissions, and administration facilities
Services: Programming, design, and construction administration services

Ellenzweig provided programming, design, and construction administration services for the conversion of an existing building in the Jewelry District of Providence to serve as the new home of the Warren Alpert Medical School. Teaching spaces in the new facility include case study classrooms, lecture halls, anatomy suite, clinical skills suite, simulation center, library/resource center, and seminar rooms; also located in the building are a fitness center, café, student academies, and offices and support spaces for admissions, administration, financial aid, and curriculum affairs. The Warren Alpert Medical School, the only school of medicine in Rhode Island, is home to a community of scholars and physicians dedicated to the highest standards in education, research, and health care; it is affiliated with seven teaching hospitals. The move to its new location realizes two University-wide initiatives: strengthening the reputation and visibility of the Medical School and setting the stage for Brown’s future expansion beyond its core campus on College Hill. In recognition of this vision, the design of the new facility repositions the existing building by providing significant entries at two sides: one facing College Hill, and one toward future development along the Providence River. A Student Commons connects the two entries and serves as a central circulation spine along which program spaces are located on each of the three main floors. The building is designed to achieve LEED Silver certification. Suffolk Construction is collaborating with Brown University and Ellenzweig in a design-build delivery.

Corporate

Lexigen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Research and Development Headquarters

Location: Billerica, MA
Size: 56,700 gsf
Construction Cost: $15,000,000
Completion Date: 2002
Program: Laboratory building for pharmaceutical research and corporate offices
Services: Master planning, lab planning, full architectural design, construction administration

This research and development facility serves as the new headquarters of Lexigen Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. The site plan was designed to incorporate a final build-out of six buildings totaling 300,000 gross square feet: four R & D buildings, a Protein Production Laboratory, and a commercial manufacturing facility. The Research and Development Building - one of the first facilities to be constructed in the multi-phased development - contains research laboratories, laboratory support areas, an animal facility, conference rooms, and administrative spaces. Research facilities include micro and biomedical laboratories, isotope laboratory, tissue culture rooms, darkrooms, and instrument rooms. Workspaces are arranged around an enclosed atrium, designed to facilitate communication between the administrative and laboratory wings of the building. Laboratories feature limited interior partitions and in-lab corridors - open passages through the laboratory space needed for circulation and access but not for public egress. Used in this way, these corridors not only increase communication within the labs, but dramatically improve the net-to-gross ratio of the building. The new facility gives priority to daylight in the laboratories and offices and maximizes the views to the wooded countryside.

EMD Serono - Project Unity Research Building

Location: Billerica, MA
Size: 140,000
Construction Cost: $50,000,000
Completion Date: December 2010
Program: Biology and chemistry research laboratories, vivarium, auditorium, meetings rooms, café, reception
Services: Programming, site planning, lab planning, design, construction administration

The new building continues the development of the EMD research campus for which Ellenzweig prepared the master plan and designed the first two buildings: a research and development building and protein production laboratory, both completed in 2003. The EMD Serono facilities are an expansion of the first R & D building, and provide an additional 140,000 gsf of laboratory and support space. The program includes biology and chemistry research labs, a 15,000 gsf vivarium, and a central link component which houses reception, a 225-person auditorium, meeting rooms, and café. The building achieved LEED Gold certification. EMD Serono is a subsidiary of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany.

EMD Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Protein Production Laboratory

Location: Billerica, MA
Size: 24,300 gsf
Construction Cost: $3,500,000 (shell and core only)
Completion Date: 2002
Program: Pharmaceutical research production facility and offices
Services: Master planning, feasibility study, architectural design, construction administration

EMD Pharmaceuticals is a subsidiary of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. The Protein Production Laboratory (PPL) was one of the first facilities to be constructed in a multi-phased development planned for EMD's new location. The site plan was designed to incorporate a final build-out of six buildings totaling 300,000 gross square feet: four R & D buildings, the PPL, and a commercial manufacturing facility. The PPL is an FDA and European Union certified, small-scale manufacturing facility that produces material for testing the company's new cancer drugs in clinical trials. The PPL contains offices, laboratories, and two separate clean room production suites. The core of this plant consists of two cell-culture bioreactors, which produce the proteins from mammalian cells. Careful consideration was given to the architectural design of the building, as it was desired that the facility blend into the campus setting of the site, yet maintain a distinctly contemporary appeal.

Eisai Research Institute of Boston - Research and Development Headquarters

Location: Andover, MA
Size: 142,800 gsf
Construction Cost: $50,000,000
Completion Date: 2006
Program: Biology, Chemistry, and Drug Disposition laboratories for pharmaceutical research and corporate offices
Services: Master planning, feasibility study, programming, lab planning, full architectural design, construction administration

This new project is an expansion of the original U. S. headquarters facilities for Eisai Research Institute, designed by Ellenzweig (constructed in 1989); the Institute is the research component of Eisai Co., Ltd., a major Japanese pharmaceutical company. Located on a 23-acre site north of Boston, the new facility houses biology, chemistry, and drug safety disposition research laboratories. Interior spaces provides a highly open and visible environment to promote interaction among researchers; glass walls connecting labs to support areas allow views through the building from lab to lab and office to lab. The new research and office facilities link to the existing 1989 buildings with a series of interior and exterior connections that transform the research campus into one cohesive complex. A glass-enclosed connector joins the new building to existing labs, and a pedestrian bridge connects it to an administrative building. The new facility is designed as a series of pavilions - one for each of the research disciplines, and one for administrative and public functions. Administrative spaces are connected to the research areas by an atrium that also serves as a public entrance and company gathering-place. Each research pavilion is linked to the next via sky-lit, interactive lounge areas.

Transit and Parking

Post Office Square - Parking Structure and Park Pavilions

Location: Boston, MA
Size: 442,800 gsf
Construction Cost: $50,000,000
Completion Date: 1991
Program: Underground parking facility and urban park
Services: Urban design, architectural design of garage and park pavilions

The project consisted of an underground parking garage for 1,400 cars with a landscaped park at grade - including pavilions and structures for food service, garage entries, and shelter - that replaced an existing, above-ground parking garage. Garage ramps, stairs, and ventilation shafts were designed to have minimal impact on the park. The café, garage entrance pavilions, and trellis enclose the park's great lawn and create a tranquil setting for the hundreds of people who visit the park every day. An important goal of the project was to extend the grace and elegance of the park into the garage, while providing easy access, clear orientation, and a sense of security. The walls, ceilings, and columns of the garage are painted white, with perimeter walls carefully lighted to create a bright, appealing environment. The project received numerous design and planning awards, including an AIA Honor Award for Urban Design, New England Regional AIA Design Award, and the BSA Harleston Parker Award for the most beautiful building project in Boston.

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority - Traction Power Substation

Location: Boston, MA
Size: 15,000 gsf
Construction Cost: $20,500,000
Completion Date: 2004
Program: Power substation for MBTA Aquarium Subway Station
Services: Design, construction administration

The Traction Power Substation building was designed and constructed to provide DC electrical power to Blue Line subway trains and house a ventilation shaft for emergency smoke evacuation from the Blue Line tunnel. A small retail space (400 square feet), is located on the ground floor at the corner of State Street and Chatham Row. The design of the building honors its location on Boston's historic State Street near Quincy Market. The demand for sensitivity to the existing fabric was considerable, given this unlikely use for a prime, downtown location. The task was to house electrical machinery, heavy switchgear, and a ventilation shaft in a building that would make a dignified, contemporary, yet unobtrusive addition to the streetscape. The exterior design employs the predominant materials and vocabulary of neighboring turn-of-the-20th-century buildings without resorting to imitative architectural language. Limestone, granite (building base), and aluminum (grid), along with prominent cornices and deeply indented windows, contribute to a design that allows this building - housing a completely utilitarian program - to reside harmoniously within its commercial context.

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority - Aquarium Station Modernization and Expansion

Location: Boston, MA
Size: 71,000 gsf new, 25,000 gsf renovation
Construction Cost: $117,000,000
Completion Date: 2004
Program: Subway station, headhouses, and tunnel
Services: Design, construction administration

The Aquarium Station project is the latest in a long series of MBTA projects completed by Ellenzweig, dating back to the Alewife station and garage project completed in 1985. The Aquarium Station is perhaps the most complex of all of these projects, involving the complete renovation of the existing Aquarium Subway Station, new headhouses for the east and west entrances, and construction of a 200-foot long platform extension - while retaining a fragment of the existing 100-year old tunnel and track structure. The project also included the design and construction of a 150-foot long section of the Central Artery depression project, which runs directly over the Aquarium Station, as the subway tunnel and the Artery tunnel intersect and share the same structure along this length of the two projects. The design involved extremely restrictive tolerances for earth retention systems, as the historic Granite Block buildings on State Street are only eight feet away from the excavation and were extremely sensitive to settlement. The project involved a host of utility relocations, careful waterproofing design, detailed analysis of water table fluctuations, and a very complex shoring and foundation design, including hold-down structures for the remnant of the existing track. In designing the above-ground structures, sensitivity to the existing context was the driving design factor. The east entrance consists of two prismatic enclosures connected by a steel colonnade that frames views of the harbor and the neighboring Marriott Hotel. The attenuated forms and generous use of glass restore the visual continuity of Long Wharf and State Street, an important historic vista. Red brick walls, similar to those on neighboring buildings, anchor the two glass entry pavilions. The new west entrance on State Street is similarly sympathetic to its surroundings. A granite colonnade, the main compositional element, recalls the mercantile buildings along nearby Granite Row. The escalator and stairs are housed in adjoining glass and metal pavilions. A third entrance and escalator are located within a new commercial building on State Street.

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority - Alewife Intermodal Transportation Facility

Location: Cambridge, MA
Size: 1,000,000 gsf, 2,050 parking spaces
Construction Cost: $84,000,000
Completion Date: 1985
Program: Parking garage, subway station, and bus terminal
Services: Planning, design, construction administration

Alewife Station is a major transfer facility on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Red Line Extension, which runs from Harvard Square to North Cambridge. The station houses a subway platform for six-car trains, a 12-berth bus platform, drop-off areas for automobiles and taxis, parking for 2,050 cars, and an array of service facilities that includes coffee bars, newsstands, and fast-food restaurants. The building consists of more than one million square feet, distributed over four levels. Escalators and glass-enclosed elevators integrate the interior. Natural light, landscaping, and artwork - coordinated with the Cambridge Arts Council - contribute to enlivening passenger waiting areas. The forms, volumes, and materials of the exterior articulate the station's various components and express a dynamic, contemporary image for public transportation.

Dayton International Airport - Parking Facility

Location: Dayton, OH
Size: 1,495,460 gsf, 3,922 parking spaces
Construction Cost: $66,000,000
Completion Date: 2007
Program: Parking garage
Services: Design

Located for functional purposes in front of the airport terminal, this parking facility represents the new physical image and identity of the Dayton International Airport. Several programmatic goals for the design of the parking facility were established in recognition of its major impact on the Airport: the parking structure should reflect the importance and aspirations of the Dayton International Airport as a regional civic institution; organization of the garage should provide strong visual cues from the Airport roadway entry to orient users to the organization of the Airport complex as a whole; and the garage design should further support the Airport arrival experience, for garage users and also for drivers moving around the structure to the Terminal entry. To address these programmatic challenges, the garage design concept proposes a bold gesture at the west garage elevation facing the airport entry, consisting of a monumental archway framed by twin helices, or spiral forms, at the garage ends. This soaring composition, played over the 1,200-foot length of the garage, celebrates and unifies the garage elements, while providing strong visual cues to visitors. Organization and massing of the five-level parking structure is based on the Parking Garage Concept prepared by Hunnicutt Davis Associates. The organization is designed to provide clarity of orientation and movement to the garage users, as well as allowing efficiency and flexibility in garage operation. Pedestrian orientation and movement are facilitated by the single bridge to the center of the Airport Terminal, a single elevator core, and the curved east drive that will provide a clear route to the garage circulation core and Terminal connections.

Planning and Programming

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - Quissett Campus Master Plan and Research Facilities

Location: Woods Hole, MA
Size: 70,000 gsf
Completion Date: 2005
Program: Research labs, lab support, equipment suites, clean rooms, scanner facility, mass spectrometer labs, offices, conference room, and common rooms/lounges
Services: Campus master planning, programming

This project included a full array of pre-design planning and programming services. Initially, Ellenzweig worked with a comprehensive planning team in the preparation of an overall campus master plan for the 165-acre campus. The plan called for complete realignment of roadway and pathway systems, new research buildings, expansion of the central energy plant, an auditorium facility, and student housing. The master plan also involved consideration of overall campus energy systems, water treatment systems, signage systems, parking, and recreation facilities. The final plan provided recommendations for site design, landscape features, building location and massing, permitting/approvals strategy, and analysis of all environmental/permitting issues. The project received full and timely approval for the Master Plan and site development. Upon approval of this overall plan, Ellenzweig provided detailed programming of two new research facilities, including a full list of program spaces, and layout and adjacency diagrams of key research components. Upon completion of programming documents, Ellenzweig provided final design and construction administration services for the two new research facilities and for an expansion of the central energy plant to support the new research facilities.

Vassar College - Science Master Plan

Location: Poughkeepsie, NY
Size: 165,000 gsf
Completion Date: 2005
Program: Research labs, teaching labs, lab support spaces, classrooms, and offices
Services: Programming, feasibility study

Ellenzweig provided programming and master planning services for the sciences and related departments, leading to the development of a science master plan for long-term development. The goal of the study was to create a planning concept that creates an integrated science complex, bringing all of the sciences together in a collaborative, interdisciplinary environment. The study included detailed programming of the needs of each department, including layout diagrams of key program spaces, and development of various build-out scenarios involving both existing and new buildings. A second phase extended the study to provide more detailed layout plans and the development of a detailed cost estimate. The project includes space for the Departments of Chemistry, Physics/Astronomy, Psychology, Math, and Computer Science. The proposed new facility adjoins an existing Biology building.

Vassar College - Classroom Master Plan

Location: Poughkeepsie, NY
Completion Date: 1999
Program: Classrooms
Services: Master planning

The project involved preparation of a comprehensive master plan for a 20-year upgrade project for all teaching facilities on the Vassar campus, including general-purpose classrooms, computer labs, and special-purpose spaces such as language instruction and distance learning classrooms. A particular focus of the planning effort involved the integration of new technology and updated teaching methodologies. Inventories of existing space and facilities were conducted on a department-by-department basis across the campus. Through intensive discussions with representatives of the faculty, the administration, and the student body, existing and future needs were recorded and assessed. Various classroom configurations were reviewed and a limited number were selected and used in the design of renovated and new classrooms. Options consisting of new construction, renovation, and reuse of existing space were developed, with respective cost estimates, and presented in the final master plan. The final plan included comprehensive design criteria to be used for classroom construction across campus, including layout, A/V and computer technology, furniture, lighting, acoustics, and architectural finishes.

University of Pennsylvania - Departments of Biology and Psychology

Location: Philadelphia, PA
Size: 320,000 gsf
Completion Date: 2001
Program: Research and teaching labs, lab support, vivarium, greenhouse, plant growth facility, classrooms, lecture hall, faculty offices, conference rooms, and lounges
Services: Master planning, programming, feasibility study

Ellenzweig prepared a programming and master plan/feasibility study that considered over 320,000 gross square feet of new and renovated facilities for the Departments of Biology and Psychology. The work involved an audit of existing facilities, master planning and programming of new and renovated space, studies of renovation/construction phasing, site circulation, service access, site design criteria, and development of cost estimates. A number of notable existing buildings, including the Leidy Laboratory and Louis Kahn's Richards Laboratory, were included in the scope of the study; the Botanical Garden was another existing landmark integral to the planning process. Working closely with individual users from the School of Arts and Sciences, a larger group of University user representatives, the facilities department, and the administration, Ellenzweig developed a detailed facility program (including proposals for a standardized planning module) and prepared a master plan. The final plan included a significant new building, to be implemented in two phases, and renovation of existing facilities. Ellenzweig was later selected as the architect for the new life sciences complex, to be constructed in two phases. Phase I is now in construction and will be completed in 2006; it will provide 103,000 gsf of research laboratories, a vivarium, research greenhouse, plant growth facility, and building infrastructure systems that will accommodate both phases of new construction and some existing facilities. Phase II will consist of another 117,000 gsf housing additional research laboratories, an expanded vivarium, and teaching facilities.

Rhodes College - Academic Space Planning Study

Location: Memphis, TN
Size: 150,000 gsf
Completion Date: 2005
Program: Classroom and departmental space
Services: Programming, space planning

Ellenzweig provided programming and planning services for all academic spaces on campus. The work included space planning recommendations for every academic department to assess long-term needs of growth and departmental identity. The process also included programming for all teaching spaces across campus, and the development of a comprehensive plan for classroom improvements. The programming process entailed a series of intensive meetings with faculty from each department to establish needs and preferences, followed by a planning phase to develop recommendations for a phased implementation.

NEOUCOM - Research and Graduate Education Complex

Ellenzweig is working with Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy (NEOUCOM) to program and design the new Research and Graduate Education Complex, comprised of a new Research and Graduate Education Building, expansion and renovation of the Comparative Medicine Unit (CMU), and the renovation of Building “D” to provide laboratories for public/private partnership use. Program components include research laboratories, lab support, student activities areas, conference rooms, and faculty offices. During the programming phase of work, NEOUCOM requested that the planning team undertake a Master Planning study to locate the new research and graduate educational facility and the CMU expansion in the context of a 25-year outlook of campus growth. To this end, the team worked with NEOUCOM to develop a list of probable projects that would occur within this time frame, serving as the basis of the campus growth scenario. The planning effort included development and refinement of build-out options and associated phasing, as well as illustrations of the campus at the conclusion of the first phase and after 25 years of growth. Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy (NEOUCOM) is a community-based, public institution focused on the inter-professional training of health professionals; its mission promotes education, research, and service. NEOUCOM is a member of the university system of Ohio and its partners include teaching hospitals, community sites and boards of health. Design of the first phase of the campus expansion, which consists of the new Research and Graduate Education Building, the CMU expansion, and the Building "D" renovation, is underway. The project will achieve, at a minimum, LEED Silver certification. Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy (NEOUCOM) is a community-based, public institution focused on the inter-professional training of health professionals; its mission promotes education, research, and service. NEOUCOM is a member of the university system of Ohio and its partners include teaching hospitals, community sites and boards of health. Ellenzweig is Program Architect and Design Architect, working with TC Architects, Architect of Record.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Center for Cancer Research Feasibility Study

Location: Cambridge, MA
Size: 158,000 gsf
Construction Cost: $59,700,000
Completion Date: 2004
Program: Research labs and support, core labs, computer labs, vivarium, conference rooms, lounges, offices, and exhibit space
Services: Feasibility study, conceptual design

Ellenzweig was commissioned to assess the feasibility of providing new facilities for MIT's Center for Cancer Research at a prominent campus location. The Center's expansion is needed to relieve existing overcrowding and to accommodate new faculty researchers and associated staff. The study focused on creating a conceptual building design that would provide a flexible and interactive environment for the Center's researchers, as well as accommodate the Center's special core labs, transgenic breeding mouse colony, headquarters, and meeting spaces. The site design creates a new campus entry and defines an academic quadrangle along with existing buildings.

Emory University - Medical Education Building Planning Study

Location: Atlanta, GA
Size: 150,000 gsf
Completion Date: 2000
Program: Teaching labs, computer labs, anatomy lab, morgue, clinical skills suite, lecture halls and classrooms, small group teaching rooms, student study areas, student lounge, administrative offices, and a central commons
Services: Programming, feasibility study

The project involved preparation of a complete building program and a detailed feasibility study for a new 150,000 gsf medical education facility for the Emory University School of Medicine. The programming process involved intensive discussions with representatives of the faculty, administration, and students to determine the appropriate spaces and their adjacency relationships in the new facility. The feasibility study included the development of two site planning/building layout options for the new medical education program: a renovation/addition option and a new building option. A cost estimate was prepared for each option, allowing the University to weigh the overall advantages and costs of the two conceptual plans.

Connecticut College - Classroom Improvement Plan and Renovations

Location: New London, CT
Completion Date: 2005
Program: Campus-wide classroom improvement plan and phased renovations
Services: Programming, design

Ellenzweig worked with Connecticut College in developing a comprehensive classroom improvement plan to provide a blueprint for a long-term program of classroom improvements across campus. The project consisted of: - an inventory and analysis of existing classrooms, - development of a classroom program, including recommendations for appropriate classroom technology as well as new classroom layouts, and - a classroom implementation plan, including detailed layouts of the rooms selected for the first round of classroom renovation projects. Ellenzweig is now assisting the College in an ongoing project to implement classroom upgrades across campus.

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