A new benchmark for convergent research facilities: Key departures from conventional lab planning

Stanford University’s new award-winning research complex brings together Chemistry, Engineering Medicine, and Human Health (CHEM-H) with the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institutes to deliver groundbreaking research, improve human health and eradicate disease. Zach Pozner and Stephen Chu provide rationales for key departures from conventional lab planning, highlight innovative features of the light-filled lab “neighborhoods” and “living rooms”, detail flexibility and reconfigurability features of laboratories, set out new lab/office/support metrics, and illustrate how a shared-resource space plan supports the convergence of disciplines among 40 principal investigators.