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Stanford Brings Elegant Design to Forward Reaching Medical Research Building

Presenter(s): W. Malcolm Barksdale and Thomas Mistretta, Research Facilities Design; Nancy H. Tierney, Stanford School of Medicine
Convener: Emil Frei, Beacon Skanska Construction Company

The design team's task was to create a laboratory facility providing an enriching, supportive environment to conduct biomedical research for the 21st century. Research is multidisciplinary, including genetics, immunology, and cancer, as well as housing the medical school's anatomy teaching program. The design responds to the professional, cultural, and technological requirements of the program, as well as changing research directions, procedures, and instrumentation. Features include open laboratory planning, windows to the exterior for laboratories and offices, close relationship between laboratories and offices, and a courtyard. The resulting design is an elegant, well-detailed building reflecting the university's concern for design quality.
This knowledge resource from SCUP is a vendor presentation presented at the Society's thirty-sixth annual, international conference and Expo, SCUP–36, in Boston, MA (USA), in July of 2001.

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