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Much of the conventional wisdom of laboratory and campus building. The place of interchange, and learning, and doing.

The agora was the gathering place of ancient Greece. Its striking design-featuring tilting towers, many-angled walls and whimsical shapes-challenges PRESENTER: Maria Stata once wrote some beautiful lines about MIT as a modern agora. (LIDS) and the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. Laboratory (CSAIL), the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems The building is home to the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence

Spirit, and to foster interaction and collaboration across many disciplines. Gehry, the Stata Center is meant to carry on Building 20's innovative and serendipitous The Ray and Maria Stata Center for Computer, Information and Intelligence Sciences isД«uilt on the site of MIT's legendary Building 20, a 'temporary' timber-framedД«uilding constructed during World War II that served as a breeding groundДЇor many of the great ideas that were born at MIT.

recycled timbers from Building 20 for flooringДў005 Grand Award for Engineering ExcellenceДЄmerican Council of Engineering CompaniesДў005 Gold Award for Sustainable Site DesignДЄmerican Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts.

construction waste management plan by contractor to recycle construction waste, which, for example, achieved a near 100 percent recycling rate for the demolition of the garage.

roof design that incorporates landscaping for shading and storm water retention and a white reflective surface to reduce heat island effect.

landscape design for Northeast Sector that uses native vegetation and water-efficient design.

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operable windows for natural ventilation and individual control, and which provide an abundant use of daylight in all interior spaces.

minimizing refrigerants and eliminating Halon, a fire retardant, in the building.

monitoring and controlling CO levels in garage through a demand controlled ventilation system.

extensive use of displacement ventilation utilizing a raised floor system.

irrigation system connected to central weather station-system uses weather data to control water flow, identify leaks, and cut off water flow.

innovative storm water retention and management system that employs biofiltration and which services several of the surrounding buildings as well as the Stata Center.

social areas along the interior 'student.

Roll over photo thumbnails to change large image. For that reason, the system is often described as prefab for custom buildings.Ray and Maria Stata Center for Computer, Information, and Intelligence Sciences One of the distinct advantages of the ZEPPS is that it allows fully functional window boxes, over six feet in height, to be pre-installed on these panels. More than 10,000 individual skins were installed to the surface and roof.

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Each of these assemblies was lifted into place for this project and then surfaced with a metal skin in one of several specified metal surfaces. In 1997, Ray and Maria Stata made a significant contribution to the construction of a new academic complex on the MIT. In total there were 1,500 individual ZEPPS assemblies manufactured for the project. Parts were then assembled either at the Zahner shop or in the field depending on their complexity and ease of shipment.ДЄn onsite team of installers lifted and secured each ZEPPS assembly. Using ZEPPS allows the engineers to simplify the design into buildable components using 3D fabrication processes. Designing the Building Envelope for Stata CenterД«ecause of the complex nature of the project, the designers used ZEPPS, ZahnerвЂ™s structural system for building complex forms.

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