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A new benchmark for convergent research facilities: Key departures from conventional lab planning

Pozner, Zachary | Stanford University
Zachary Pozner, AIA
Zachary Pozner
Director of Architecture
Chu, Stephen | Ennead Architects
Stephen Chu, AIA
Stephen Chu
Partner

Stanford University’s new award-winning research complex brings together Chemistry, Engineering Medicine, and Human Health (CHEM-H) with the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institutes to deliver groundbreaking research, improve human health and eradicate disease. Zach Pozner and Stephen Chu provide rationales for key departures from conventional lab planning, highlight innovative features of the light-filled lab “neighborhoods” and “living rooms”, detail flexibility and reconfigurability features of laboratories, set out new lab/office/support metrics, and illustrate how a shared-resource space plan supports the convergence of disciplines among 40 principal investigators.

CEU Type Units
American Institute of Architects (AIA)
0.50 Units
Health, Safety and Welfare (HSW)
0.50 Units