Flexible floor plan
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Project • By Flad Architects • Offices
Healthpeak Properties Vantage Campus
Designed to nurture discoveries that will shape the biotech industry, the new Vantage Development offers a purposeful building life science campus to serve the region's academic, commercial, and industrial science and technology research institutions.
Jason O'Rear
The Vantage campus opened in 2024 in the heart of the South San Francisco biotechnology corridor. It features one five-story and one six-story building, together totaling 342,000 square feet of state-of-the-art life science laboratory and office facilities. Both buildings provide flexible floor plans to enable tenants to adapt to their own needs and workspace configurations.
Jason O'Rear
Jason O'Rear
Design thinking
Vantage's architectural language is def... More
News • News • 19 Jul 2022
Madrid's Casa Rotonda finds inspiration in the works of Mies van der Rohe and Palladio
Inspired by Mies van der Rohe’s 50 x 50 house and the hilltop villas of Palladio, Casa Rotonda in Madrid by Alberto Campo Baeza features a highly flexible floor plan based around a 12 x 12 m square ground plan divided into nine equal 4 x 4 m quadrants.
Javier Callejas Sevilla
With service areas in the semi-basement, the ground floor features the kitchen and dining room as well as a more intimate living room. The main bedroom and children’s bedrooms are on the first floor, while the top floor is dedicated to a glazed belvedere style space that opens up to an expansive covered deck.
Javier Callejas Sevilla
The exterior form and mass of the house can be described as a heavier, podium of stone that forms a ba... More
News • News • 10 Nov 2021
Foster + Partners completes state-of-the-art inpatient facility for Penn Medicine
The PennFIRST integrated project delivery team, consisting of Foster + Partners, HDR, engineers BR+A, LF Driscoll, Balfour Beatty and Penn Medicine, set out to realize the ‘hospital of the future’. To rethink patient care with the wellbeing of staff and patients at the heart of their approach.
Penn Medicine
The 504 inpatient rooms are user-centered. Patients can use controls that allow for individual comfort and customization. Movement is minimized by creating rooms that are fitted for direct treatments as much as possible.
Dan Schwalm, courtesy of PennFIRST
Patient rooms are fitted with an interactive footwall to integrate entertainment, room controls, communications, and medical record information. The screen and s... More
News • News • 29 Jun 2021
Beautifully efficient Iwakura House by Alts Design Office
In a quiet residential neighbourhood of Kyoto, Iwakura House replaces a three-storey existing building. With mountain views on both the northern and southern sides and a low-rise residential neighbourhood surrounding, the client wanted the house to take maximum advantage of the view. Alts Design Office thus proposed to place the house’s living room on the third floor.
Alts Design Office
Windows were carefully designed to frame views. A bay window on the northern side is a particular feature that functions as part of the kitchen space. Parts of the kitchen and living room furthermore have a connection with the outside, resulting in a fluid and comfortable space.
Alts Design Office
Strengthening connections to the ex... More