BIG LA celebrates the topping out of one of its first projects, the Claremont McKenna College Robert Day Sciences Center! 🔬🧬 Swing by our Santa Monica studio to meet the BIG LA team and explore future collaborations! The 135,000 sq ft Sciences Center will be home to the liberal arts school’s next-generation Kravis Department of Integrated Sciences - a powerful, multi-disciplinary, computational approach to advance gene, brain and climate knowledge. The structure is designed as stacks of paired volumes, or rectangular ‘blocks’ - two per floor - with each pair rotated 45 degrees from the floor below. On the interior, the volumes are expressed as stacked trusses with floor-to-ceiling glass partitions providing visibility between spaces. The rotation of each floor creates a central sky-lit atrium at the heart of the building that provides direct views into classrooms and research spaces from all levels. Roughly 9,000 sq ft of solar panels on the roof will provide 200-230 megawatt hours of energy production per year. The project is aiming for LEED Gold and is expected to complete in 2025. Congratulations to all of our collaborators on this exciting milestone! Saiful Bouquet Structural Engineers ACCO Engineered Systems Atlas Civil Design Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners Rosendin WSP in the U.S. Jacobs Arup KGM Architectural Lighting Heintges Consulting Architects & Engineers KOA Corporation Edgett Williams Consulting Group, Inc. IDS Group, Inc. Kleinfelder KPRS Construction Services, Inc. The Herrick Corporation #Salamander CCI 📷 Anibal Ortiz + Pooya Aledavood #Architecture #HigherEducation #School #ScienceCenter #California #BIGLA
I learned so much from this project and this team. It's amazing to see the building gaining life!
Many of your conceptual themes are like poetry, borrowing from those in our past- who lead us into new creations, “like music, frozen in time and volume… There is no substitute for design excellence, in execution, in cost and by realization.
Project credit: Bjarke Ingels, Leon Rost, AIA, Aran Coakley, Amir Mikhaeil, Lorenz Krisai, Janie Green, David Iseri, Ryan Duval, Alan Maedo, Joe Veliz, Pooya AleDavood, Thomas McMurtrie, AIA
Congrats! Alan Maedo
The building looks fantastic!
Great design, congratulations! 🙂
Congratulations!
Collaborating with BIG on this unique project has been a truly wonderful experience for our team. Congratulations to the College, Herrick, KPRS and all of our other collaborators on achieving this major milestone! We eagerly anticipate the completion of the science center, expected in 2025.