A University of Nebraska Medical Center competition for the redevelopment of a former steel castings industrial builiding into a mixed-use medical facility.  The facility is to include UNeMed which fosters innovation, advances biomedical research and engages entrepreneurs to commercialize novel technologies.   Also included is UNeTech which identifies promising start-up companies in the medical industry. 

 

Our solution included re-imagining the historic structure and re-populating a flexible program throughout the building to provide a cross-section of spaces that engage with medical technology and multiple tenant arrangements.  Modules clad in steel and glass are inserted through the plan and section of the building to compliment the industrial aesthetic of the building and reference the original steel casting program.

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or special conditions which seek to unify the users perceptual, tactile and acoustic experience with relation to the height, coverage and scale.  During different times of the day the light will penetrate spaces and create a sense of movement.  At night the spaces will be unveiled to expose the lightweight steel framing and provide identity markers for tenants and users.  The exterior experience reveals how the additive volumes will identify program with an overlapping material language which highlights the lightweight connections of the large scale masses.  The new design offers new areas that cater to multiple users while offering common areas designed to connect indoor and outdoor public spaces for sitting and collaborating.programmatic boundaries.   New volumes will create interior special conditions which seek to unify the users perceptual, tactile and acoustic experience with relation to the height, coverage and scale.  During different times of the day the light will penetrate spaces and create a sense of movement.  At night the spaces will be unveiled to expose the lightweight steel framing and provide identity markers for tenants and users.  The exterior experience reveals how the additive volumes will identify program with an overlapping material language which highlights the lightweight connections of the large scale masses.  The new design offers new areas that cater to multiple users while offering common areas designed to connect indoor and outdoor public spaces for sitting and collaborating.