In a new Tradeline report “Research & Research Facility Futures,” principal Mark Reed and other panalists identify the big ideas and important trends that will define research facility initiatives for the next two years and beyond. Read the full report »
Mark Reed was interviewed as a member of a panel of experts forecasting future trends in laboratory planning. Results of the panel’s work will be published in an upcoming Tradeline Exclusive Report.
In Paul Goldberger’s article in the New Yorker, dated September 19, 2011, he concludes with the notion that there is a “lurking irony” in the way scientists have been collaborating with architects in shaping their research space.
Drawings are the dominant means of communicating design in architecture. Individual drawings tell different parts of the story and traditionally each had to be drawn separately. In recent years the notion of drawing, and what it can communicate, has changed.
While in India this past February, I made a visit to the Jantar Mantar in Jaipur. Conceived as the embodiment of astronomical instrumentation, the Jantar Mantar is a series of building-sized measuring devices set in a park. The structures are a wonderful example of the intertwining of design and function.
I read an article in this past weekend’s Boston Sunday Globe about the importance of physical proximity in successful research. Drawn from a wide body of information, the story highlights the importance of day-to-day physical interaction between researchers in the biosciences.
When Mark and I decided to form our own practice, we thought about what we wanted to be. We wanted to continue the very hands-on design that inspired us to become architects in the first place. We also wanted to work on a wide range of project scales — from small fit-outs to larger renovations and new construction.
