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MIT, Physics, DMSE, Spectroscopy, and Infrastructure Project
MIT, Physics, DMSE, Spectroscopy, and Infrastructure Project
Cambridge, MA, United States
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MIT, Physics, DMSE, Spectroscopy, and Infrastructure Project
Cambridge, MA, United States
YEAR
2007
SIZE
100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft
Like many institutions with aging infrastructure, MIT has seen many of its most technically intensive disciplines vacate the historic campus core for purpose-built structures along its periphery. This project, an outgrowth of a comprehensive master plan for MIT's iconic Main Group home of the famed "Infinite Corridor" directly challenges that belief by giving new life to an old structure through a strategic intervention.
A 5-story contemporary glass addition was constructed inside an underutilized service courtyard. While the addition includes a theory center for the Department of Physics, its real purpose was to create a new paradigm for housing and distributing 21st century infrastructure to the 100-year old, million square foot complex. At once technical engine and social connector, the project succeeds in forming new pathways for people and systems without compromising the Main Group's programmatic vitality.
"The main group was becoming like an 'inner city' where only offices were left behind and research wasd going on in new facilities in the 'suburbs'? We wanted to try and use it as it was meant originally ? as an integration of science, education, and community." - Marc Kastner, dean of the School of Science, MIT
Architectural Record, November, 2008
Project Awards include:
SCUP/AIA, Excellence in Architecture for Building Additions, Honor Award, 2008
Boston Society of Architects, Citation for Design, 2008
Boston Society of Architects Higher Education
Award for Design Excellence, 2009
Project photography copyright: Peter Vanderwarker and Robert Benson Photography
A 5-story contemporary glass addition was constructed inside an underutilized service courtyard. While the addition includes a theory center for the Department of Physics, its real purpose was to create a new paradigm for housing and distributing 21st century infrastructure to the 100-year old, million square foot complex. At once technical engine and social connector, the project succeeds in forming new pathways for people and systems without compromising the Main Group's programmatic vitality.
"The main group was becoming like an 'inner city' where only offices were left behind and research wasd going on in new facilities in the 'suburbs'? We wanted to try and use it as it was meant originally ? as an integration of science, education, and community." - Marc Kastner, dean of the School of Science, MIT
Architectural Record, November, 2008
Project Awards include:
SCUP/AIA, Excellence in Architecture for Building Additions, Honor Award, 2008
Boston Society of Architects, Citation for Design, 2008
Boston Society of Architects Higher Education
Award for Design Excellence, 2009
Project photography copyright: Peter Vanderwarker and Robert Benson Photography
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