Projects / Office / News / Publications / Info All / Culture / Commercial / Housing / Institutional / Planning / Exposed / Research 2013 Busan Opera / Park Taichung / 2010 Decathlon Solar / Civil Registry / MAD Prosecution / Music School / Barceló / Closure Cinema School / AZCA / Europan 05 / Europan ´03 / Kids Daycare / Biolabs / 2000 Athens / El Prado / Z1 The lot in Massachusetts included two Victorian mansions surrounded by a manicured lawn. To the client, the new laboratory should not alter the “natural environment.” Our impression, however, was one of great artificialityThe project stemmed from the idea of horticulture, like biotechnology, an example of the “natural-artificial” blur. The new cultivation areas houses underneath them the perfect volumes of the laboratories. The roofs continue the existing pedestrian landscape, forming a labyrinth of pathwaysA large cylindrical glass passageway united the two Victorian buildings, passing through the various laboratory rooms, offering visitors the experience of moving through a representative section of the building and the activity withinAside from small crops associated to the laboratories, the ground floor that extends over the roof of the building houses other activities, such as exercise loop, mini-golf, etc.