나노테크놀로지를 위한 대학의 프로그램 확충은 다음과 같은 프로젝트를 발촉시킨다.
대학의 새로운 아이콘으로 제안되는 테크놀로지 센터는 지역적 건축,자연 문맥을 연장시키는 동시에 대학내 새로운 교육환경을 수용하는 타입폴로지를 정립한다.
건축물의 선형을 따라 배치된 내부의 연구실은 건축물 중심부에 위치한 중정, 그리고 이 중정에 면한 복도로 연결, 소통된다. 이러한 건축적 특징은 내외부의 간극을 밀착시키며 긴밀한 연결관계와 소통공간을 확보한다. 소통의 연속은 과학에서 예술로, 연구자에서 학생으로, 내부에서 외부로 확장되며 소통된다.
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Poised at a new threshold to campus, the Krishna P. Singh Center for
Nanotechnology will transform the current “uninspiring gauntlet” of
Walnut Street into an iconic and welcoming new gateway indicating the
intellectual vitality of campus and the innovative activity of its
students and faculty.
The building location, the north side of the 3200 block of Walnut
Street, sits adjacent to a major approach to the University from the
east. As the foremost major academic building at this entrance to
campus, the new Center will represent the presence of the Campus within
University City and communicate the role of Penn as a global leader in
scientific research and education. The building and landscape will
provide a graceful transition to the academic environment and celebrate
the commitment of the University to its West Philadelphia neighborhood.
Architects: WEISS/MANFREDI
Location: 3205 Walnut Street, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Design Partners : Marion Weiss, FAIA and Michael A. Manfredi, FAIA
Project Manager: Todd Hoehn
Project Architects: Michael Harshman, AIA, Kimberly Nun, AIA, Ina Ko, AIA, and Michael Steiner, AIA, LEED-AP
Area: 78000.0 ft2
Year: 2013
Photographs: Albert Večerka/Esto
Collaborators: Patrick Armacost, Cheryl Baxter, Michael
Blasberg, RA, Beth Eckels, Jocelyn Froimovich, Patrick Hazari, Bryan
Kelley, Jina Kim, Justin Kwok, Andrew Ruggles, Joe Vessell, and Joe
Vidich
Consultant/Mepfp: M+W Group
Structural Engineer: Severud Associates
Civil Engineer: Stantec
Leed/Sustainability Consultant : Viridian Energy & Environmental, LLC
Curtain Wall Consultant: R.A. Heintges & Associates
Construction Manager: Gilbane
Both the University and Philadelphia have a tradition of organizing
buildings around open quads. Laboratory buildings are typically
organized around a central corridor and afford little public space. The
Center for Nanotechnology focuses the laboratories around a central
quad, opening the Sciences to the University landscape and providing a
new indoor/outdoor open space for interaction.
A new multi-level crossroads, the Krishna P. Singh Center for
Nanotechnology is a significant step toward signaling the University’s
leadership in the emerging field of nanotechnology. The new 78,000
square foot facility will have state-of-the-art lab spaces including a
10,000 square foot Bay/Chase Cleanroom, a 6,500 square foot
Characterization Suite, and 12,000 square foot of Laboratory Modules.
Vibrant, centralized public spaces include the public Galleria,
conference rooms, and multipurpose Forum space.
The Center for Nanotechnology will bring together researchers from both
the School of Arts and Science and the School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences and will facilitate interaction between faculty and students,
researchers across disciplines, and between the University and the city.
Lab facilities will be organized around a vital new public core that
will provide for the exchange and synthesis of knowledge that
characterizes the study of this emerging field. At night, the Center for
Nanotechnology will become a glowing environment for research with such
program elements as a lounge and cafe needed to support the continuous
occupancy that research requires.
The labs are organized around a central courtyard, allowing exterior views and making the scientific activities highly visible. The Galleria space between the lab and exterior enclosure functions as an inhabitable lens. The separation of interior and exterior space becomes blurred through the use of frit patterns and mirrored effects. This glowing Galleria is then wrapped in a metal paneled facade with a bent ripple that reflects and refracts the surrounding buildings and activity of the city. An ascending route climbs from the courtyard through the building to a Forum space that cantilevers 65 feet over the courtyard below. The steel shear wall structure for the cantilever is expressed on the interior and exterior, emphasizing the connection to Campus.
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