Skolkovo University comprises researchers from around the world, focusing on five research areas: Biomedical, Nuclear, Energy, Space and Information Science. To promote collaboration between the research areas and enable future growth, shared programs—such as machine shops, imaging, vivarium and cleanroom—are centrally located. Cross pollination is further reinforced by the interconnected nature of the laboratory bars, which share support spaces by distinguishing between “host” and “loft” buildings.
The host building contains all necessary support spaces as if it was an independent building. The loft buildings leverage the adjacent host building’s core functions including vertical circulation and bathrooms. As a result, the core spaces within the loft buildings can be reduced in size. This reduction provides additional open laboratory space to allow for greater flexibility.
The 2025 OpenLAB Boston studio work will be exhibited at Virginia Tech Monday, March 2nd through Wednesday, March 4th.
Please join us for the following events on Monday, March 2nd:
11:00am - Lecture with Parke MacDowell
1:00pm Lobby talk with Kevin Sullivan
This year’s studio identifies seven sites along the frayed edges of Boston’s Greenway. The Greenway is a one-mile-long linear park running through the heart of the city, reconnecting downtown Boston with its waterfront. Many of the parcels along its edges remain undeveloped and present mute, blank facades to the public realm. Addressing and repairing these edges through acts of infilling, layering, grafting, framing, and placemaking is the core focus of the studio—SUTURE.