Science + Technology

This 2,500 SF project provides new biology laboratories and faculty and graduate student offices for Assistant Professor Joe Parker, Assistant Professor of Biology in the Division of Biology and Biological Engineering at California Institute of Technology. The laboratory focuses on the genetic, genomic, and neurobiological basis of symbiotic interactions in animals. Due to the nature of the Professor's work, the laboratory houses such insects as roaches, beetles, termites, and ants.

The Pachter Lab provides new computational/wet laboratories and faculty and student offices for Professor Lior Pachter, Professor of Computational Biology with the Biology and Biological Engineering (BBE) Division at Caltech. Located in the basement and first floor of the Kerckhoff Building, the gross project area includes 4,300 SF of basement lab space, 250 SF of first-floor faculty office space, and 500 SF of construction office/staging area space which was refurbished after construction.

Located on an operating academic health campus, owned and operated by the University of California as part of UC Davis, the North Addition Office Building is located immediately adjacent to the main teaching Hospital tower.

This new 133,000 SF, 6-story facility includes an array of teaching spaces, administrative offices and support programs.  The First Floor Conference Center is used primarily for teaching by outside guest lecturers, as well as internal healthcare and administrative hospital training. Included in the center are three large conference rooms (one with 40-person capacity, and two with 80-person capacity) and are used to support hospital programs, guest lectures, and teaching.

The building also features a 335-seat auditorium, which is technology-enabled with long-distance learning capabilities and includes state-of-the-art AV systems. The auditorium includes full black-out motorized shades, acoustically sensitive glass, and a large pre-function space. Additionally, a flat floor model allows for reconfigurable seating.

Finally, the building includes an 80-seat Medical Staff Collaboration Room used by faculty for group meetings and small lectures, a technology enhanced-outdoor space used to host meetings and small group sessions, and an adjacent cafe with seating for 30 people.

The building is also LEEDv3 Platinum Certified with 83 LEED points, making the North Addition Office Building one of the greenest buildings on the UC Davis Health campus.

The 2,209 SF updated basement level of the Gates-Thomas Laboratory Building houses Professor Aaron Ames’ Advanced Mechanical Bipedal Experimental Robotics (AMBER) Lab. This lab is equipped for students to design, build, and test robots and prosthetics with the goal of achieving human-like bipedal robotic walking. The mission of the AMBER lab is to translate these walking capabilities to robotic assistive devices.

This renovation required upgraded mechanical and electrical systems and additional acoustical treatment in the ceilings. The lab includes two long treadmills a 144 SF rotary walking area for bipedal robots, and updated 
design stations.

Reimagining a traditional educational institution, the 42,000 SF renovation of the second floor of McCarthy Hall introduces daylight and a sense of place to the Biology and Geology departments. Spaces include department offices, teaching and research labs, a cadaver lab, and an animal facility. Open, informal learning space throughout the floor provides students with areas to study, meet, and learn. Hallways, niches, and open space reach to the exterior in order to drive natural light as far into the center as possible. Integrated display cabinets and full-height glass walls with views into the classrooms reinforce the goal to put science on display.

The Swenson Family Hall of Engineering, located in the Keck Center for Science and Engineering at Chapman University, is envisioned not only as the campus epicenter for innovative thinking but as an inclusive social hub where cross-pollination of ideas can occur between faculty members and students. At the heart of the School is a Design/Create/Innovate (DCI Lab), a makerspace for experimentation and collaboration space for idea incubation. This main space includes a series of operable partitions and modular design that allow for a flexible and adaptable space supporting collaboration, presentation, and showcase events. Upper floors include faculty office space and instructional teaching labs, including: active learning classrooms; a circuits and structures lab; and  a signals and cyber lab.

The space occupies three consecutive floors:  the first level designed to be a collaborative student space traversed by a gallery or ‘ideation path’ connecting to the existing building; the second floor that includes labs, study alcoves, and research pods; and the third floor dedicated to faculty workspaces and meeting rooms.

The ideation path is a wide hallway that bifurcates the lower level of the Engineering school. This gallery path connects the collaborative student spaces, the dean’s suite, and the fabrication labs through an angular walkway covered in a metal mesh ceiling. The path features views into workspaces and instructional spaces through glass walls and large operable partitions.

The 74,780 SF Science Building on the Azusa Pacific University campus includes the renovation of the existing Wynn Science Building as well as the construction of a new teaching and research laboratory facility. The design creates meeting spaces throughout the building where students and faculty can gather, fostering teamwork and community. The objective was to create a science center that consolidates and increases teaching space for mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology and to provide an emphasis on fundamental research. 

The building defines a new gateway to the campus with a glowing façade of channel glass, establishing a unifying and defining landmark for Azusa Pacific University. The building is organized around a central courtyard that provides daylight to interior spaces, and captures usable open space for a variety of campus and community based activities. The glazing on the façade allows filtered daylight into the lab spaces while at night the interior lights emit a diffused glow.

The overall organization of the building follows a repetitive unit of measurement used for classrooms and laboratory spaces, providing flexibility when future modifications becomes necessary. The master plan for the secondary campus is reinforced by defining the edge of a new campus quad and garden. The building has been certified LEED® Gold.

AC Martin led a multi-consultant team for this new administrative building on the University of California, Davis campus to house the Mathematics and Statistics Departments. The project provides 64,000 gross square feet of office and educational space in an efficient core layout for use by various departments as needed, and includes academic offices, conference rooms, statistics lab, and a large seminar room for guest speakers, presentations and public events.

The architecture of the building was conceived to reinforce the pedestrian nature of the UC Davis campus, with appropriately spaced windows, and a textured facade. The building massing was designed to work with an existing stand of pines to the southeast, creating a plaza and gathering space that links the main entry to a primary north/south circulation path. Landscaping and the building edge also reinforce an existing major pedestrian path to the south.

AC Martin provided architectural design services for this 19,200 gross square foot addition to the existing Academic Surge Building, chosen due to its proximity to other campus buildings with similar research interests. 6,500 gross square feet are dedicated to the Watershed Science Research Center to provide laboratory and support space for cross-disciplinary researchers and students who are engaged in research connected to the Bay-Delta and related tributaries. The remaining 10,800 gross square feet was constructed as unfinished shell space for later development by the campus.

The Center will be used as a biological laboratory, an analytic chemistry laboratory and a sedimentology laboratory. Support spaces will include a conference and meeting room, student offices and faculty offices. The new facility gives the program a physical identity for State and Federal agencies who share a partnership in the science of watershed research.

Specialized Labs:
• Center for Watershed Sciences
• Biology
• Analytic chemistry
• Sedimentology
• Computers

AC Martin provided architectural and engineering services for this 95,000 square foot Molecular and Life Sciences Center. The building houses biology, biochemistry, and chemistry research as well as lower and upper division teaching laboratories. Fumehoods and mechanical exhaust systems are used extensively throughout the building. In addition to an increase in capacity by 138 full-time equivalent students in teaching laboratories, 160 graduate research stations, and 46 faculty offices, this project provides the necessary relief space to permit the progressive renovation of the existing Peterson Hall 2 and 3 science buildings to proceed. Special lab functions include cell/molecular/physiology research; fluorescent microscopy center; immunology; genetics, biochemistry and chemistry.