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Thurston-Bowles Buildings

Barry Parks authored the building design and led a team of architects, engineers, and interior designers at this 161,500 sf research facility for the School of Medicine at UNC – Chapel Hill. It completed in 1994 at a cost of approximately $26 million. With two significant donor families, the goal was to design a single lab building with two distinct entries.
The seven story building provides five floors of modular dedicated research laboratory space supporting three distinct research programs. The lower floor houses administrative offices for one of those programs as well as the animal holding facility and a loading dock to service the building. The second floor is given over to mechanical support and a student cafeteria. The third floor holds a mix of laboratories and offices in one portion of the building and administrative offices in the other half.
The upper four floors feature offices, research laboratories, shared laboratory support units in a modular arrangement, and mechanical chases. A cross-campus circulation route was incorporated into the design and the below grade animal holding area is decked with an exterior patio.

Exterior
Exterior
Front Elevations
Front Elevations
Rear elevation
Rear elevation
Rear Plaza
Rear Plaza
Loading Dock Elevation
Loading Dock Elevation
Loading Dock
Loading Dock
Elevation Study
Elevation Study
Axinometric view
Axinometric view
Rendering of Proposed Building
Rendering of Proposed Building
Monumental Exterior Stair
Monumental Exterior Stair
Railing Detail
Railing Detail
Drawing of Stair
Drawing of Stair
First Floor Elevator Lobby
First Floor Elevator Lobby
Elevator Lobby
Elevator Lobby
Elevator Lobby Alcove
Elevator Lobby Alcove
Research Lab
Research Lab
Custom Lab Wall
Custom Lab Wall
Custom Wall Drawing
Custom Wall Drawing
Cafe
Cafe
Cafe (Current)
Cafe (Current)
Site Plan
Site Plan
Role:  Schematic through construction at RS&H
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