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Project Tag: lab

  • Hancock Health Gateway Clinic

    Hancock Health Gateway Clinic

    The waiting area breaks the healthcare mold.

    Phase I of the project was a building to house an imaging center, lab, and urgent care. The design team took the data gathered during visioning sessions and crafted a concept for a single waiting room supporting all three services that would face the existing forest on the property. Unlike most healthcare environments, the waiting area offers café and lounge seating, encouraging patients to work or socialize while waiting for their appointments.

    Wayfinding was another component of the design considered from day one.

    When patients are called back to their appointments, they pass by a backlit biophilic image, adding to a feeling of relaxation and reassuring patients that they have come to the right place. These images are used again in the corresponding signage, creating a “mini-brand” for each suite. In time, the entire campus will be branded using natural imagery and building-specific colors, replacing the anxiety of a doctor’s visit with a sense of calm and control.

    Planning for Future Growth

    Following Phase I, CSO worked with Hancock Health to design and build-out the second floor. Phase II was completed just a few years after the initial project.

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  • Roche Diagnostics Lab and Office

    Roche Diagnostics Lab and Office

    A Light-Filled Architectural Expression of Roche’s Culture and Technology

    In order to maximize natural light while adhering to sustainable design features, detailed 3-D models, sun path studies, building sections, and energy analysis models were developed and analyzed to inform the final design configuration of the west façade shading system and glazing. The design solution creates a carefully designed, glazed west-facing façade which allows very controlled, diffused natural daylight directly into the circulation atrium and deeply into the lab, office, and interaction spaces beyond.

    The interior spaces were designed with extensive interior glazing to display the advanced laboratory technology and innovation that is central to Roche’s business success and corporate culture, as well as to allow for the deep penetration of natural light. The Design Team combined very clean, European modernist materials and furnishings with a warm palette of neutral hues and accent colors rooted in the native Indiana landscape.

    Advanced, Sustainable Design

    As the result of the client’s tech-based culture and high design aspirations, the design team employed a rigorous, multidisciplinary, sustainable design approach to create an uplifting, technologically advanced facility that inspires its scientific staff and expresses its culture of scientific innovation.

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  • Marriott Hall

    Marriott Hall

    Student-Operated Restaurants Anchored by a Teaching Kitchen

    The interior features a two-story dining space with a coffee bar and two student-operated restaurants: The John Purdue Room, a fine-dining restaurant in which students prepare and serve the food and manage the kitchen and dining room, and The Boiler Bistro, a quick-service restaurant where the food is cooked to order. These spaces are supported by the Teaching Kitchen, which functions as a lab as well as the main kitchen preparation area for the facility.

    Culinary Instruction Anchored by a Live Teaching Kitchen

    A 95-seat demonstration hall consists of a lecture room with a kitchen that is used to teach cooking classes.

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  • Health Sciences Building

    Health Sciences Building

    A Forward‑Looking Facility Designed for Adaptability, Visibility, and Connection

    The building design presents a transparent, flexible concept that allows for current and future needs of the programs housed within. The building’s prominent location creates an ideal venue for an outdoor seating and interaction area adjacent to the indoor café.

    Bringing Health Science Programs Together in a Shared, Collaborative Learning Hub

    The building consolidates several departments into a collaborative and integrated learning environment that promotes intellectual and social interaction among students and faculty. Included in the design are teaching spaces, faculty areas, research labs, and wellness-related areas for the physical therapy, occupational therapy, nursing, kinesiology, and psychology programs.

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  • Pfau Hall Renovation

    Pfau Hall Renovation

    Expanded Facilities Support Hands-On Learning and Student Collaboration

    Modernized Labs Advance Life and Physical Sciences Education

    The second area of interior renovation included an 8,800 sf renovation for the Life and Physical Sciences program. Renovated lab spaces include Anatomy, Biology, Microbiology, and Chemistry labs. Each of the labs includes large laboratory prep areas with separate exhaust hoods and storage. Many of these labs existed previously within Pfau Hall, but this project relocated them to a central location and completely modernized the spaces.

    Comprehensive Interior Upgrades Deliver New Layouts, Systems, and Building Infrastructure

    Renovation to all areas included a new space / wall layout, all new finishes, new mechanical/electrical/plumbing systems (including HVAC systems and LED lighting throughout), new information technology infrastructure, and a new fire suppression system because the existing building was not sprinkled.

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  • Cathedral Innovation Center

    Cathedral Innovation Center

    Informal Study Area Encourages Interaction and Connection

    Previously, there were not spaces within the school that allowed for classes to break out into smaller groups or spaces to accommodate informal study sessions with direct access to instructors. A new study area now provides a space for students to break out of the adjacent classrooms to work on group projects and study after school as a group or individually.

    Where STEM Learning Meets Real-World Innovation

    The Innovation Center is home to modern STEM classrooms and laboratories for Cathedral’s Math & Science Academy, engineering and robotics programs, and more.

    Enhancing Efficiency

    In Cathedral’s previous traditional education model, the classroom and lab areas were separate spaces within the same classroom, forcing one of the areas to go unused. The new design accommodates multiple labs and classes at the same location, increasing collaboration and allowing for an increase in efficiency in new and existing spaces.

    New Cafeteria Creates a Destination for Students

    The Innovation Center also contains the relocated dining and kitchen space in the lower level, allowing students a more flexible approach to food service and more options to the traditional lunch period. An additional Café allows students to utilize a “grab-n-go” concept during the day.

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    CSO’s unwavering commitment to understanding Cathedral’s goals for the project resulted in an Innovation Center design which exceeded the school’s expectations. We could not have worked with a better team, They were responsive to our wants and needs, quick to respond, and extremely professional. The whole process was easy. “

    –Grace Rodecap, Cathedral High School Director of Marketing

     As quoted in Building Excellence Magazine

    A New Front Door to Campus

    The Innovation Center was designed and constructed as an addition to Kelly Hall. To acheive the square footage goals of the project, the existing main entry would need to be replaced.

    Preserving Iconic History

    Generations of Cathedral students and staff entered the building through the main entry in Kelly Hall. When it was determined that the addition would encompass the main entry, designers opted to retain the original entry and original access to Kelly Hall by incorporating it into the new design. The new addition incorporates a three-story open atrium between the old Kelly Hall and the architecture of the new addition. Exterior materials used on the addition are blonde brick (same used on SLC), glass, metal panel and stone veneer panels. The old limestone façade of Kelly Hall was preserved as a feature of the new, glass-enclosed front entrance.

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