MIT Green Center for Physics
Cambridge, MA
  • Project Facts
  • Client: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Material Sciences and Engineering

As Project Planning Architects, with Payette Associates, IKM applied town planning principles to organize education, research, administrative and community spaces for the Department of Physics and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in MIT’s historic Main Group. Community spaces and other functions needing high visibility were placed along the public corridor, and displayed behind storefront walls, while laboratories and offices were rearranged for continuity.

The space renovation plans were coordinated with significant upgrades to the building’s aging infrastructure and solutions to infrastructure problems such as air entrainment.