R&D Facility Architecture

We Architect
Discovery.

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Trusted by leading research institutions

GenentechMIT Media LabStanford BioPharmaModerna FacilitiesJohns Hopkins ResearchSalk InstituteBroad InstituteNovartis CampusUC San DiegoAstraZeneca R&DCaltech BeckmanPfizer GlobalGenentechMIT Media LabStanford BioPharmaModerna FacilitiesJohns Hopkins ResearchSalk InstituteBroad InstituteNovartis CampusUC San DiegoAstraZeneca R&DCaltech BeckmanPfizer Global
01Biosafety Engineering

Airflow
is
architecture.

A negative-pressure corridor is not a compliance checkbox. It is a decision about how contamination moves, how researchers think about risk, and how a building breathes. We design from the CFD simulation outward.

CFD airflow simulation overlay on vivarium floor plan showing negative pressure corridor design

Biosafety Engineering

Overhead photograph of open-bench wet-dry lab cluster with shared write-up bay between facing benches

Open Research Environments

02Open Research Environments

Collaboration
is a floor
plan decision.

The collision between a wet-bench chemist and a computational biologist does not happen by accident. It happens because a write-up bay sits between two benches and a coffee station is thirty steps from both. Serendipity has a blueprint.

03Cleanroom Design

Every ISO
class is
a promise.

ISO Class 5 means fewer than 3,520 particles ≥0.5μm per cubic meter. It means your process is protected. It means we have engineered the air, the surfaces, the pressure differentials, and the human protocols so that nothing contaminates what you are building.

Architectural section drawing of ISO Class 5 cleanroom showing pressure differentials and material flow paths

Cleanroom Design

04Selected Work

Spaces where
science happens.

Modern biotech campus building exterior with glass facade in South San Francisco

Multi-Tenant Biotech Hub · 2024

Helix Campus

South San Francisco, CA · 220,000 sq ft

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ISO Class 5 cleanroom interior with white walls and precision lighting
ISO 5

ISO Class 5 Cleanroom · 2025

Synthesis Suite

Cambridge, MA · 18,400 sq ft

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Open-plan interdisciplinary research lab with shared collaboration zones

Interdisciplinary Research Center · 2025

Convergence Lab

San Diego, CA · 85,000 sq ft

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Biosafety Level 3 laboratory corridor with negative pressure indicators

BSL-2/3 Biosafety Suite · 2023

Vivarium Complex

Houston, TX · 42,000 sq ft

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Large-scale GMP pharmaceutical manufacturing facility interior

GMP Manufacturing Campus · 2024

Pharma Consolidation

Research Triangle, NC · 310,000 sq ft

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05Our Conviction
"We don't design buildings that happen to contain labs. We design labs that happen to be buildings."

Labspace founding principle

4.2Msq ft

Research Space Delivered

47+

Completed Lab Facilities

98%

On-Schedule Commissioning

12yrs

Average Client Relationship

06The Conclusion

The science
done here
will matter.

If you share this conviction — that the rooms where science happens shape the science itself — we should speak. Your next facility should be a statement.

BSL-1 through BSL-3

Biosafety Levels

ISO Class 3–7

Cleanroom Certification

GMP / GLP

Regulatory Compliance