IMSA Laboratory Renovation
Project Summary
The newly renovated B-Wing provides IMSA the facilities they need to support their student and faculty with a contemporary space for students to learn and perform research, as well as provide opportunities to entice prospective students, faculty and researchers.
Each of the labs are used as teaching labs and for student research. The labs are equipped with workstations, lab fume hoods and utility connections. Substantial storage systems provide space for laboratory equipment, cleaning supplies and tools. The support spaces house cabinets, sinks, sanitizing equipment and utilities.
client
Capital Development Board
Illinois Math & Science Academy
location
Aurora, Illinois
size
5,492 sf
cost
$1.1 million
Services
Specialties
client
Capital Development Board
Illinois Math & Science Academy
location
Aurora, Illinois
size
5,492 sf
cost
$1.1 million
Services
Specialties
The mission of the Illinois Math and Science Academy (IMSA) is to ignite and nurture creative, ethical, scientific minds that advance the human condition: a mission possible only if its laboratories and classrooms match its reputation as one of the world’s leading teaching and learning laboratories for imagination and inquiry. The existing laboratories and classrooms in IMSA’s B-Wing, originally designed in 1978, needed to be updated to support the mission of IMSA and provide state-of-the-art laboratories for comprehensive learning.
The renovation consisted of science laboratories, lab support spaces and classrooms with full architecture and MEP services. In the classrooms, movable furniture allows for flexibility with ample lecture space and white boards. Tiered tables increase visibility to the teaching professor and white boards. Pops of blue in the classrooms and labs create a cohesive feel. We designed sound baffles to improve acoustics and provide a visual enclosure to the classrooms.
Molecular Inspiration
Geometric tables come together to create group setting that echo the shape of molecular structures.