Tour of COTE Top Ten Award Winner MIT.nano

Additional fee, registration required.

This tour will show how MIT.nano, one of MIT's largest-ever commitments to research and a 2021 COTE Top Ten Award winner, has revitalized a central campus precinct through integration into MIT's iconic Main Group and Great Dome.

Join us to review design strategies for achieving the highest level of performance for nano research while reducing energy consumption, reusing an existing brownfield site, and planning for resiliency. Plus, experience the transparency of facades and exposed systems poetically on display—key to user safety—and discover how massing and materials were inspired by the scientific processes within.

Learning Objectives

1. Analyze the challenges of siting the building at the campus center, evaluating its integration into the adjacent historical context and the precinct's transformation.
2. Explore key strategies for creating ultra-quiet space for research.
3. Examine how the building's highly technical aspects inspired the massing and materials selection.
4. Evaluate the holistic design approach, which accounts for occupant safety in a hazardous environment, enhances future flexibility and resilience, and advances energy-efficient practices to achieve unprecedented sustainability for this building type.

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