海角视频

585 Kendall

Cambridge, MA, USA

海角视频 is supporting a landmark project to develop an innovative and highly sustainable new building that brings science and the arts together under one roof.

Located within Kendall Square, the premier innovation district for Cambridge, Massachusetts, 585 Kendall (previously known as 585 Third Street) is a 16-story mixed-use tower that will feature spaces for the performing and cultural arts, offices and laboratories.

With a building program that includes a performing arts theater and new public green space, the design strategy reflects the client鈥檚 commitment to arts, culture and public wellbeing. 海角视频 partnered with subconsultant enviENERGY to deliver LEED and WELL administration. We are providing consulting and external thermal comfort services for the building鈥檚 resilient design features, which will include a high-performance envelope and advanced building systems.

Challenge

The vision is for a building that brings nature, performance, music, community, and life sciences together in the heart of Kendall Square. The first three levels will feature multiple public functions: a 380-seat theater, 10,000ft虏 interior garden known as the 鈥渨inter garden鈥�, retail units, multi-function spaces and lounges.

Upper levels will house 500,000ft虏 of lab/office space, creating a new, community-focused design paradigm for next-generation science buildings. Takeda Pharmaceuticals will serve as the anchor tenant. The arts functions will be operated by Global Arts Live, with a vision to make the performing arts spaces and winter garden a 鈥渓iving room for the neighborhood鈥�.

We worked closely with CBT architects and the wider design team from the pre-concept stage to ensure the building is a highly optimized and sustainable space, designed for zero on-site fossil fuel combustion.

Solution

At the pre-concept stage, we delivered detailed public realm analysis, to create a benchmark and full understanding of what the new facilities could bring to the community.

The building is designed as a highly-visible cultural landmark. The project represents the confluence of nature and the built environment, intended to attract a diverse public. The ground level, a one-acre, all-season indoor/outdoor park, will welcome all 鈥� with the building appearing to 鈥渇loat鈥� above it. Outdoor spaces will feature large, sweeping groves of trees, cooling the area in summer and shielding it from the wind. It will be a comfortable place for gathering, food trucks, and free, small-scale arts-based events.

This landscaped area will flow into the building, with the entire eastern end a winter garden designed for year-round events and performances. Curved facades will minimize shadow, leverage sunlight, mitigate wind, and provide aesthetic variation. Strategic massing minimizes facade materiality, reduces solar gain, and unlocks open space for public use.

Prioritizing sustainability as a key focus throughout, the design team created a sustainability framework which prioritized three major components: (1) experience and comfort (creating spaces where people are healthier, happier, and more productive); (2) resiliency and efficiency (maximizing the resource efficiency of the building, including reduction of water and energy consumption); and (3) community and arts (building a community where science meets art).

Pursuing LEED certification, the design considers quantitative and qualitative metrics in the reduction of operational and embodied carbon, water consumption, the useful life of building systems and infrastructure, and the building鈥檚 greater environmental and community impact. Our building physics experts delivered detailed CFD (computational fluid dynamics) studies on the thermal comfort of the ground floor plaza. This included both wind and solar/shade analysis to ensure the indoor-outdoor space would be functional and comfortable.

We also delivered a full Life Cycle Assessment to build a detailed understanding of the embodied carbon of the project, as well as working with the wider design team on the City of Cambridge Green Building Submission for Permitting (Article 22).

A 30,000ft虏 arts and culture center on the second and third floors, fully equipped with seating, stage, sound, and lighting technology, will provide much-needed rehearsal, performance and gathering spaces for artists and community members. The space will enliven the neighborhood with vibrant new cultural programming, committing to hosting live events at least 100 nights per year.

The building鈥檚 upper levels are clad with a high-performance unitized curtain wall system which integrates a custom color palette and intricately detailed opaque panels to project a vibrant and dynamic aesthetic. The ground-level facade incorporates as much glass into the design as possible to highlight performing art components and public space. Raising the curtain-like facade at the ground level allows for visibility across the building and encourages pedestrian movement between indoor and outdoor components, as well as connectivity to open spaces around the site that were previously isolated.

Value

In a neighborhood seeking to close the divide between the life sciences and the arts communities, 585 Kendall will provide a welcoming and accessible environment for all. Our detailed advisory work around sustainability and building physics ensures that the project will deliver a resilient and comfortable building that boasts low embodied carbon and zero on-site fossil fuel combustion.

We had a key collaborator role working closely with all the different design consultants engaged in the project to shepherd them successfully through the sustainability aspects of the development.