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Scales of Making – Small, Medium and Supersized Makerspaces for Undergraduate Education

June 26, 2024

Abby Klima

Over the past decade PAYETTE has designed and built multiple makerspaces for Colleges of Engineering across the country. Here we highlight three recently completed makerspace projects that range from small to super-sized. [...]

New Color Palette and Space Taxonomy

July 8, 2021

Abby Klima, Alex Zink, Andrew Ringler, Ben Garbow, Tom Simister

PAYETTE’s color palette and space taxonomy for science and research enables us to create beautiful drawings and data visualizations that communicate design ideas and space metrics to clients who rely on our buildings for critical functionality and daily inspiration. [...]

Building Suitability Tool

July 7, 2021

Abby Klima, Andrew Ringler, Tom Simister

PAYETTE’s Building Suitability Tool is an in-house technical rating system designed to assess a building’s highest and best use. [...]

Finding the Sweet Spot for Classroom Inventory

June 28, 2021

Abby Klima

Academic buildings need classrooms – but how do you know you are building the right ones when you design something new? [...]

Lab Design: The Super Flex Lab

March 16, 2021

Abby Klima

Our challenge on the design of the research labs for Wesleyan University’s New Science Building was to design a 900 SF research lab that could fully support both chemistry and biology researcher’s needs across the spectrum of lab types and requirements [...]

Building Consensus Through Interactive Tools

August 15, 2019

Abby Klima

Our Cape Cod Community College design team led several interactive sessions with the College leadership and faculty. [...]

Payette People at ABX 2018: Part I

October 1, 2018

Abby Klima, Andrea Love, Jeff Abramson, Luke Gehron, Megan van der Linde, Melanie Silver, Robert Pasersky, Tom Simister, Wes Schwartz

Attending ArchitectureBoston Expo (ABX) 2018? This year we are very excited to lead sessions on several different topics including sustainability and architectural tools. [...]

Sustainable Strategies in Undergraduate Science

April 4, 2018

Abby Klima

Long before the advent of LEED and climate change, we were aggressive advocates of finding strategies to reduce the energy use in our buildings. [...]

9 Things Every Undergraduate Planner Should Know

June 12, 2017

Abby Klima

When planning in an undergraduate setting, keep in mind these nine things. [...]

Brutal Legacy: What to do with the Aging Concrete Buildings in Boston?

September 2, 2015

Abby Klima

From the late nineteen fifties through the mid-nineteen seventies, Boston embraced concrete architecture in a mission to expand and transform the city. [...]

Abby joined Payette in 2012 as part of the Planning Group. Since joining Payette she has worked on diverse lab planning projects including renovations and new projects for Wesleyan University, Amherst College, Bryn Mawr College, Cape Cod Community College, the University of Miami as well as the Massachusetts Crime Lab. Prior to joining Payette her project work included the B-2 Police Station in Dudley Square, and a renovation to the Brown University Metcalf Research Lab Building. She also independently received a planning grant from the OSSP Foundation to plan a park renovation for the city of Malden. Abby received her B.A. in Physics and English from Wesleyan University and her M.Arch from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.

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