Location S
client: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
markets : Healthcare
services : Planning, Design

This new research facility of 375,000 SF will be built on the site of a demolished 1929 clinical building at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. Location S will elude to the contextual nature of the campus architecture, but will also seek to reflect the cutting edge, world class research institution as it becomes a distinctive gateway building to the Southern end of the Children's campus.

It will include 10 research floors housing mechanical equipment and a data center. Each research floor is based on an integrated model of wet lab and dry lab research space with the focus on interaction of researchers from different disciplines. A central circulation spine links to an existing research tower and provides interaction opportunities such as meeting rooms, informal break-out space and quieter spaces of respite. All these spaces will be accessible on a wireless network allowing research work to break out of the lab. Double volume overlooks and vistas through glass curtain wall bring a sense of connection to the exterior as well as bringing in light.