Our recent interior renovation at the Harvard Science Center is featured in The Architect’s Newspaper September issue.

As a continuation to Leers Weinzapfel Associates’ interventions at Harvard Science Center over a period of 20 years, this project has two distinct goals: 1) to create an inviting, comfortable, and engaging entry and public experience of the building and 2) to reflect current pedagogy in flexible lab design and student life, emphasizing the social nature of learning with diverse individual and group spaces outside of classrooms and labs. The 44,600 SF renovation peels away the original solid walls and celebrates science on display with newly configurated labs, offices, and classrooms. It transforms the original corridors of the modern landmark building designed by Josep Luis Sert in 1973 from passageways to welcoming places with new lounges, study nodes, and touch-down meeting areas.

“We were interested in putting science on display, In terms of materiality, we searched for minor but impactful insertions we could make.” – Zhanina Boyadzhieva, as quoted in The Architect Newspaper

Check out the feature here