The University of California at San Francisco will complete the $22-million Genentech Hall next month. The hall is the first facility of the planned 20-building, 43-acre Mission Bay campus encompassing 2,650,000 sf of instructional, support, and biomedical lab facilities. Part of Catellus Development Corp.'s massive 303-acre project, the facility is ready for support staff occupancy as early as October and will see equipment moved in through the end of the year.
Housing structural, chemical, molecular cell and developmental biology, Genentech Hall will also provide space for the Center for Advanced Technology and the Molecular Design Institute. Labs are organized in wall-free clusters of four to five to foster researcher interaction. The building also houses faculty office wings, common meeting spaces, and small libraries and kitchens. A total of 55 labs will be arranged as small-scale modules of science focused on different research topics.
