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Entry plaza of the Biomedical Sciences and
                                     Engineering Education Facility at the
                                          Universities at Shady Grove.






































                                                                Glass façade with sail-like sunscreens.
            A Healthy Regard
            A Healthy Regard



            for Design
             for Design






            Biomedical Building at the Universities

            at Shady Grove Promotes Biophilia


            by Ronald O’Rourke
        The newly built Biomedical Sciences and Engineering (BSE)      The project’s designers were Cooper Carry, an architecture
        Education Facility at the Universities at Shady Grove (USG)   and design firm with offices in Washington, DC, New York, and
        has achieved LEED NC-2009 Platinum certification—the    Atlanta, and Lake | Flato, an architecture firm with offices in
        LEED system’s highest level of certification. But the project’s   San Antonio and Austin. The firms have collaborated on several
        environmental design chops don’t end there: The six-story,   projects over the last decade. For the BSE project, Cooper Carry
        228,000-square-foot building, consisting of two masonry-clad    was the architect of record and the interior designer, while Lake |
        wings connected by a glassy, light-filled atrium, was additionally   Flato was the associate architect and design lead, as well as
        designed to promote among its occupants a sense of wellbeing   the sustainable design lead. Key team members were Brent
        and biophilia, a term that refers to a hypothesized innate human   Amos, AIA, LEED AP, and Mark Jensen, AIA, LEED AP, both
        desire or tendency to commune with nature. Consequently,   principals at Cooper Carry, Rick Fredlund, AIA, LEED AP, a
        in addition to its sustainable-design features, the project is   project manager at Cooper Carry, and Ryan Jones, AIA, LEED
        intended to advance environmental connectivity, user health,   AP BD+C, a principal at Lake | Flato.
        and productivity through the experience of the building itself.

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