HOK celebrates completion of SUNY science center.The New York office of Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum, Inc. (HOK) was one of the key participants in the unveiling of the recently completed 105,000 s/f Integrated Science Center (ISC (1) (Internet Systems Consortium, Redwood City, CA www.isc.org) An organization founded by Paul Vixie, Carl Malamud and Rick Adams in 1994 and later sponsored by UUNET and other Internet companies. ) at SUNY SUNY - State University of New York Geneseo. Designed by HOK, the new center will shape the future of the University as it creates undergraduate teaching and research laboratories. Among the dignitaries present at the celebration unveiling HOK's project is John H. Margburger III, science advisor to President George W. Bush and director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy Congress established the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in 1976 with a broad mandate to advise the President and others within the Executive Office of the President on the effects of science and technology on domestic and international affairs. , who delivered the keynote address at the ribbon cutting ceremony A ribbon cutting ceremony is a public ceremony conducted to inaugurate the opening to the general public of a new building or business. Often, it is conducted in just the manner the name suggests: by tying a ceremonial ribbon across the main entrance of the building, which . The ISC is one of a handful of contemporary university buildings devoted to the research and instruction of science at an undergraduate level by integrating all sciences under one roof including biochemistry, biophysics biophysics, application of various methods and principles of physical science to the study of biological problems. In physiological biophysics physical mechanisms have been used to explain such biological processes as the transmission of nerve impulses, the muscle , geochemistry, and geophysics. In addition to designing a facility which works in concert with the existing campus, HOK was able to complete the project ahead of schedule and within budget. As one of the top-ranked small liberal arts colleges It may never be fully completed or, depending on its its nature, it may be that it can never be completed. However, new and revised entries in the list are always welcome. Liberal arts colleges in the Northeast focusing on the study of the science fields, SUNY Geneseo required a facility which would not only improve on its aging infrastructure, but would also propel this already recognized institution to the next level of science education and research. In order to be contextual with the existing campus buildings, HOK's design utilizes a combination of brick, stone and lead-coated copper for the new facility's facade. The complex houses a 2,700 square-foot greenhouse, a roof-top astronomy deck, 16 teaching labs, 30 custom-designed research labs, private and administrative offices. Unique to the design is an embedded geological timeline into the lobby floor, an oversized time lapse photograph of the development of a salamander salamander, an amphibian of the order Urodela, or Caudata. Salamanders have tails and small, weak limbs; superficially they resemble the unrelated lizards (which are reptiles), but they are easily distinguished by their lack of scales and claws, and by their moist, embryo, wall-to-wall periodic elements chart spanning two stories as well as a 60-foot pendulum to represent the study of physics. The infrastructure supports a flexible lab design, an innovative smoke exhaust system in the main atrium and a heat recovery system for energy savings. |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion