UCSF: Stem Cell Building
Viñoly, Rafael
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Alternative Title
Ray and Dagmar Dolby Regeneration Medicine Building
Date
2005-2010Description
West end of building with cantilevered steel columns resting on concrete piers; Located on a sloping (60 degree slope) urban hillside on the UCSF Parnassus campus, the continuous structure navigates the uneven site, responding with a serpentine form that is supported by a system of steel space trusses. Designed to accommodate 125 individual biology laboratories for scientists studying stem-cell treatment, the building has one laboratory floor split into four levels, which step down half a storey at a time as they descend the hill. Each level is topped by an office cluster and a grass roof with wildflowers and plants. The $123 million building, paid for with state and private funds (but no federal funds), is an outgrowth of California’s effort to advance stem cell research in the face of more than a decade of restrictive federal funding policies. Source: Rafael Viñoly Architects [website]; http://www.rvapc.com/ (accessed 9/4/2015)
Type of Work
research laboratorySubject
architecture, contemporary (1960 to present), scientific or medical, Green roofs (Gardening), Medicine--Research, LEED Gold, Twenty-first century
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