Project Description
Essentially a makerspace for scientists, Caltech’s Resnick Sustainability Resource Center will be a dynamic hub for critical research into the most pressing climate and sustainability challenges we face.
Designed by our Yazdani Studio, the building will unite experts from across physical sciences, life sciences, and engineering disciplines in shared spaces with access to unparalleled instrumentation to advance novel solutions that extend beyond any single discipline.
In line with the building’s sustainability mission, a soaring, timber-framed atrium houses the center’s social and collaborative spaces, and the swooping glass curtain wall flooding this multi-story space with natural light incorporates a mass timber grid shell. In the building’s core, key spaces include a biosphere…