Designing for the next generation campus academic laboratory that supports inter-disciplinary brain and behavioral researches between multiple CMU frontier territories, including neuroscience, psychology, computer science, statistics, and engineering.

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Receiving professorial advisories from Payette [Boston] Principal, Charles Klee, and practical requirements and demands from clients of Mellon Institute of Science, the new building consists of laboratories with experiments of different intensities, offices, colloquiums, shared write-up spaces, vivariums, and a dedicated children’s school. 

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The building is featuring long span open shared write-up spaces on each of the upper floor with openings of shapes inspired by nerve cell/nodes. Each of the openings are located on different areas for each floor to allow indoor greeneries penetrating. Acoustic materials are applied around the working environment to reduce the noise interference.

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Project was landed as an extension/completion of the current Tepper Quad [CMU School of Business building], and is accessible from the Morewood building on the east end. The shared write-up corridor also has expandable connection potentials with the future buildings on the west end.

*This is an individual project
Year: 2019 (Spring)