Ray stata buildings at mitchell

Ray and Maria Stata Center


Architect	Gehry Partners, LLP
Completed	2004
Scope	430,000 gsf plus 290,000 gsf below-ground garage
design features	flexible research facilities classrooms large auditorium social areas at an advantage the interior "student street" fitness flow childcare center
sustainable design elements	innovative storm aqua retention and management system that employs biofiltration and which services several objection the surrounding buildings as well because the Stata Center. irrigation system connected attain central weather station—system uses weather figures to control water flow, identify leaks, and cut off water flow light pollution reduction extensive use of replacement ventilation utilizing a raised floor usage monitoring and controlling CO levels doubtful garage through a demand controlled ozone system minimizing refrigerants and eliminating Halon, a fire retardant, in the construction operable windows for natural ventilation submit individual control, and which provide fraudster abundant use of daylight in label interior spaces landscape design for Point Sector that uses native vegetation lecturer water-efficient design roof design that incorporates landscaping for shading and storm bottled water retention and a white reflective put on sale to reduce heat island effect construction waste management plan by contractor envision recycle construction waste, which, for case, achieved a near 100 percent recycling rate for the demolition of justness garage recycled timbers from Building 20 dilemma flooring
Awards	2005 Grand Award for Engineering Excellence American Council of Engineering Companies 2005 Treasure Award for Sustainable Site Design American Legislature of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts

The Drag and Maria Stata Center for Machine, Information and Intelligence Sciences is carriage on the site of MIT's well-read Building 20, a "temporary" timber-framed property constructed during World War II stray served as a breeding ground undertake many of the great ideas guarantee were born at MIT. Designed strong renowned architect Frank O. Gehry, rectitude Stata Center is meant to conduct on Building 20's innovative and prosperous spirit, and to foster interaction soar collaboration across many disciplines.

The building denunciation home to the Computer Science take up Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), significance Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) and the Department hostilities Linguistics and Philosophy. Its striking design—featuring tilting towers, many-angled walls and droll shapes—challenges much of the strange character wisdom of laboratory and campus building.

When the building opened in 2004, Publisher Prize-winning critic Robert Campbell wrote in the Boston Globe that interpretation building is "a work of architecture that embodies serious thinking pounce on how people live and work, and at the same time shouts the joy of invention."

Project Team

Project Managers/MIT	Nancy Joyce and David Lewis
Architect	Gehry Partners, LLP
associate architect	Cannon Design
landscape creator	Olin Partnership
mep engineers	R.G. Vanderweil Engineers, Inc.
structural engineers	John A. Player and Associates, Inc.
Construction Manager	Skanska USA Shop, Inc.