Two ``F-shaped" laboratory wings, clamped around a central core, will create  ``neighborhood" groupings of standardized lab modules to foster interdisciplinary collaboration. Flexibility in the fit-out of laboratory modules and support rooms is achieved using a menu of design options (or ``kit-of-parts") that allows researchers and staff to customize the spaces for their particular needs. Support rooms, at the end of the laboratory modules along the service corridor, can be plugged in- or out- or combined-with laboratories. Seven to eight ``double-duty" circulation aisles will be located between the lab benches and perimeter workstations.

Partial interstitial mechanical levels above each laboratory floor allow overhead distribution of utilities to lab benches. Interstitial levels ending at lab benches permit natural light into the double-height workstations along the perimeter walls; break rooms and corridor locations have continuous four- and five-story vertical glass enclosures for additional natural light.

Generic laboratories will be provided for Directors to support short-term occupancies; supporting office space will accommodate the headquarters for two of the Institutes. A 30,000-sf vivarium will support animal research using transgenic mice and rabbits. Specialty laboratories include a NMR laboratory and an EM suite; the NMR laboratory has seven magnets ranging from 500 mhz to 1 ghz located in a vibration-free pit.