Johns Hopkins University, Malone Hall

There was a need to break down academic and social barriers to lead to collaboration while finding the balance between traditional and innovative planning and design. They need to address a critical need for flexibility, the project comprises a rich diversity of space types required to support teaching and research including administrative offices, workstations, support spaces, and faculty offices. In addition, the facility includes computational research clusters for scientists, technicians, post-doctorates, PhD students, and team collaboration as well as conference rooms and departmental controlled collaboration areas.

The design team led a diverse group of faculty users through a program verification process that helped them redefine teaching, research, and working environments to guide the development of a design solution that supports innovation, collaborative behaviors, and higher density. The program is comprised of the rich diversity of space types required to support the research enterprise and includes administrative offices, workstations, and support spaces; faculty offices; research clusters comprised of research scientists/technicians, post-doctorates, PhD students, and team collaboration space; conference rooms and seminar/classrooms; core facilities; departmental or institute controlled collaboration areas; and shared collaboration space.