The Life Sciences Institute at the University of Michigan will be a 235,000
gross square foot facility consisting of six floors and a mechanical penthouse.
It is one of a complex of buildings proposed as the Palmer Drive Development.
The facility is designed to accommodate the newly created Life Sciences
Institute, whose purpose is to enhance the education, basic research and
translational research in the life sciences at the University.
The proposed facility will consists of approximately 150,000 net square
feet of space, housing "wet" research laboratory and laboratory support
spaces, core laboratory areas, principal investigator offices, interaction
spaces, the Institute's administration offices, a combined gallery/lobby
space and a small library. Along with the research building, the institute
staff will have the ability to use complementary facilities at other buildings
on the site including: computational laboratories - "dry labs", conference
and meeting facilities, a lecture space (140 seat capacity) and food service
facilities.
The exterior of the building is to blend respect for the traditional
central campus loft style buildings of the early 20th century and the
needs of a 21st century research facility. The material palette will consist
largely of stone, including brownstone, sandstone, limestone and granite,
with painted aluminum frame windows.
