{"id":115013,"date":"2025-04-02T09:06:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T13:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/?page_id=115013"},"modified":"2025-04-02T09:06:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T13:06:36","slug":"payettes-ragon-building-biomedical-research","status":"publish","type":"metro_project","link":"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/projects\/payettes-ragon-building-biomedical-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Payette\u2019s Ragon Building Redefines Biomedical Research Spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-sandow-article-header article-header\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-header\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 49%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1723\" src=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////metropolismag.com//wp-content//uploads//2025//04//02_Ragon-Institute_Robert-Benson-Photography-scaled.jpg/" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-115717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/02_Ragon-Institute_Robert-Benson-Photography-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/02_Ragon-Institute_Robert-Benson-Photography-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/02_Ragon-Institute_Robert-Benson-Photography-1024x689.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/02_Ragon-Institute_Robert-Benson-Photography-768x517.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/02_Ragon-Institute_Robert-Benson-Photography-1536x1034.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/02_Ragon-Institute_Robert-Benson-Photography-2048x1378.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Courtesy Robert Benson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group article-header_intro none\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><p class=\"article-date\" aria-label=\"Post Date\">April 2, 2025<\/p>\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Payette\u2019s Ragon Building Redefines Biomedical Research Spaces<\/h1><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column article-header_meta is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p class=\"summary size-regular\">A collaboration between MIT, Harvard, and Mass General Hospital, the new institute advances vaccine development\u2014including efforts toward an HIV cure. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-sandow-byline byline size-regular\"><span>By: <\/span><a href=https://metropolismag.com/"//tag//linda-just/">Linda Just<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"social-share\"><li><a 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wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column article-header_meta is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:65%\">\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap size-regular\"><strong>Of late, the endgame in aesthetic-driven architecture appears<\/strong> to be the pursuit of effortlessness. But it is a paradoxical condition: Achieving that appearance requires considerable time and resources, near-encyclopedic knowledge of the subject in question, and the confidence to land the metaphorical plane. That procedure, the deft transformation of countless assembled variables into a single, legible amalgam, is demonstrated aptly in the Ragon Institute, Payette\u2019s most recent addition to Kendall Square, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">This LEED Gold Certified and LBC Red List Free project, which was completed in fall 2024, serves as the home for its namesake institution, including the research facilities for collaborating partners from Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University. <a href=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////ragoninstitute.org///">The Ragon Institute<\/a>, founded in 2009, draws from this consortium of field leaders in its focused mission to study human immune systems and aid in the prevention and cure of infectious diseases, particularly HIV-AIDS and SARS-CoV 2.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column article-header_content is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1851\" height=\"2560\" src=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////metropolismag.com//wp-content//uploads//2025//02//03_Ragon-Institute_Robert-Benson-Photography-scaled.jpg/" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-115257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/03_Ragon-Institute_Robert-Benson-Photography-scaled.jpg 1851w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/03_Ragon-Institute_Robert-Benson-Photography-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/03_Ragon-Institute_Robert-Benson-Photography-740x1024.jpg 740w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/03_Ragon-Institute_Robert-Benson-Photography-768x1062.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/03_Ragon-Institute_Robert-Benson-Photography-1111x1536.jpg 1111w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/03_Ragon-Institute_Robert-Benson-Photography-1481x2048.jpg 1481w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1851px) 100vw, 1851px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Main Street facade has a canopy punctuated by an oculus and a landscape resembling a public front porch. Its positioning and scale establish a dialogue with a small quad across the street and offers sufficient space to host a small farmers market in warmer weather. Courtesy Robert Benson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group none\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" src=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////metropolismag.com//wp-content//uploads//2025//04//04_Ragon-Institute_Warren-Jagger-Photography.jpg/" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-115714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/04_Ragon-Institute_Warren-Jagger-Photography.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/04_Ragon-Institute_Warren-Jagger-Photography-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/04_Ragon-Institute_Warren-Jagger-Photography-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/04_Ragon-Institute_Warren-Jagger-Photography-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/04_Ragon-Institute_Warren-Jagger-Photography-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Courtesy Robert Benson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Facades that Balance Aesthetics with Functionality<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Though the fluted <a href=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////metropolismag.com//viewpoints//facade-design-innovation-2018///">facade<\/a> detailing of its headquarters nods to the neoclassical vernacular of other notable medical buildings of its institutional partners, Ragon does not feel overly monumental. The V-shaped primary volume occupies its tricky corner lot comfortably, with a triptych of orthogonal elevations designed to match the heights of directly adjacent neighbors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">The fluting is achieved with 12 aluminum profile modules arranged variously over a triple-glazed curtain wall. The flutes are also not merely decorative; their patterning is a product of comprehensive solar studies, and the gradation patterns are both informed and related to the spatial arrangement of each floor plate. They also integrate ventilating grilles for the substantial mechanical systems where the air handlers are concealed within a roof-level well. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1908\" src=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////metropolismag.com//wp-content//uploads//2025//02//18200_00_N112.jpg/" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-115259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/18200_00_N112.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/18200_00_N112-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/18200_00_N112-1024x977.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/18200_00_N112-768x733.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/18200_00_N112-1536x1465.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The building&#8217;s crenulated exterior veil features a continuous vertical arrangement of scalloped aluminum sunshades that envelop its high-performance facade. These sunshades dynamically adjust their openings, tapering in response to the program use and shifts in climatic orientation. Image Courtesy Robert Benson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Incorporating Human-Centred Technological Innovations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Kevin Sullivan, Payette\u2019s president and CEO, notes that \u201cwhen we first started having building science as part of our day-to-day design strategies\u2014in terms of considering glazing ratios, for example, which would have been seen as an encumbrance on design\u2014we began to recognize beauty differently. You\u2019re no longer seeing solar mitigation on a south-facing wall as a troublesome issue to resolve, but instead as a beautiful, integral feature.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">The complete effect of this draped volume maintains a dynamic, weightless quality, held aloft on a plinth of Vals quartzite coursework, copper screens, and curtain wall that steps back from the sidewalk.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">The building features sophisticated and compartmentalized mechanical systems for high degrees of air exchange; heroic structural engineering to minimize vibration that would disturb the calibration of sensitive lab instruments; and hygienic material selections. But it is the human-centered, social inflections that shine most brightly as innovation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1061\" height=\"1516\" src=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////metropolismag.com//wp-content//uploads//2025//02//06_Ragon-Institute_Warren-Jagger-Photography.jpg/" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-115265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/06_Ragon-Institute_Warren-Jagger-Photography.jpg 1061w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/06_Ragon-Institute_Warren-Jagger-Photography-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/06_Ragon-Institute_Warren-Jagger-Photography-717x1024.jpg 717w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/06_Ragon-Institute_Warren-Jagger-Photography-768x1097.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1061px) 100vw, 1061px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The building\u2019s sectional design acts as its own filter, as spaces above the first floor become more private\u2014a logical decision, as infectious disease work must be contained and secure. Courtesy Warren Jagger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1061\" height=\"1516\" src=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////metropolismag.com//wp-content//uploads//2025//02//18200_00_N130.jpg/" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-115266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/18200_00_N130.jpg 1061w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/18200_00_N130-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/18200_00_N130-717x1024.jpg 717w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/18200_00_N130-768x1097.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1061px) 100vw, 1061px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Courtesy Robert Benson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group none\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Led and Occupant Informed Design<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Since Payette is a prominent forerunner in the design sectors of biomedicine and laboratory research\u2014known for its integrated practice methodologies and technically performative, detail-oriented design across scales\u2014it was approached to assist in the preliminary stages of the project\u2019s program, tailoring it from a synthesis of extensive postoccupancy feedback archives and observations of Ragon\u2019s researcher habits.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Each office floor\u2019s layout reflects a deliberate and expert interpretation: Based on Payette\u2019s prior user surveys, growing institutional understandings of different effective working modalities, and inclusive perspectives on focus, the building occupants have options for group and individual work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1758\" height=\"1139\" src=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////metropolismag.com//wp-content//uploads//2025//02//10_Ragon-Institute_Robert-Benson-Photography.jpg/" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-115268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/10_Ragon-Institute_Robert-Benson-Photography.jpg 1758w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/10_Ragon-Institute_Robert-Benson-Photography-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/10_Ragon-Institute_Robert-Benson-Photography-1024x663.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/10_Ragon-Institute_Robert-Benson-Photography-768x498.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/10_Ragon-Institute_Robert-Benson-Photography-1536x995.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1758px) 100vw, 1758px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A system of public spaces creates a climate-resilient landscape, covering the roof and underground garage to form a type of urban forest. Key features include a public park, the oculus garden, a daycare garden, and the Cantilever Terrace, facing Technology Square. Courtesy Robert Benson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group none\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Curated Spaces for Collaboration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Thoughtful spatial curation is also evident in the labs, which are the most active programmatic elements of the project. Within Ragon, three discrete but related activities occur at any given point in the day: writing, benchwork, and tissue culture work. Each activity has its own associated equipment, furniture, spatial parameters, and utility requirements. During their observation exercises, designers at Payette noticed that tissue culture lab work\u2014typically relegated to insular, contained spaces\u2014was surprisingly social and collaborative, despite its attention-focused nature.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Recognizing the well-documented,<a href=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////metropolismag.com//viewpoints//biophilia-design-powered-by-nature///"> biophilic benefits<\/a> of daylight and external views on concentration and alertness, Payette proposed locating the Tissue Culture Labs along the building\u2019s exterior wall. The facade\u2019s triple-paned glazing and solar shades ensure this area is still fully climate-controlled, but they offer the benefit of direct access to view and daylight for user well-being in the space the lab team most commonly uses.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">That public-facing character extends from the landscape into the first floor of the building, with seminar rooms of varying sizes, reception area, and childcare facilities\u2014in addition to loading and trial patient intake, which are adjacent but accessed by separate entrances. These auxiliary spaces support the institution\u2019s staff (on-site childcare in particular makes a life-changing impact for scientist-parents grappling with the profession\u2019s unpredictable extended hours in the lab), but they also host community functions and public events during off-hours. The daycare also maintains open spots for neighborhood families to enroll. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" src=https://metropolismag.com/"https:////metropolismag.com//wp-content//uploads//2025//04//08_Ragon-Institute_Robert-Benson-Photography-scaled.jpg/" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-115715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/08_Ragon-Institute_Robert-Benson-Photography-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/08_Ragon-Institute_Robert-Benson-Photography-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/08_Ragon-Institute_Robert-Benson-Photography-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/08_Ragon-Institute_Robert-Benson-Photography-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/08_Ragon-Institute_Robert-Benson-Photography-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/08_Ragon-Institute_Robert-Benson-Photography-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Courtesy Robert Benson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group none\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biophilic Design Principles to Foster Community<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Even so, a strong sense of culture and community is a benefit inside an organization, as it is beyond the institutional walls. With both the executive conference room and canteen, the Ragon Institute\u2019s leadership wanted to provide spaces for collective debriefing and to stimulate and support collegial exchange. These are further enhanced by access to outdoor terraces that bring in nature but also remind the institution\u2019s faculty to reflect on their broader social connection to the neighborhood seen below and in the distance.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">\u201cIt\u2019s become part of the commonplace rigor of doing architecture. I think Ragon is a particular example of the building functioning as a singular organism, inside and out. There\u2019s this dynamic relationship between the skin and the floor plate\u2014it\u2019s telling a story that unfolds as you navigate the site: of the shape and social geometry of the building and the purposeful position it holds in the community regarding what it\u2019s making,\u201d adds Sullivan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Such instances, though seemingly mundane and intangible, reaffirm faith in the impact and importance of thoughtful design gestures at any scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"comment size-regular\">Would you like to comment on this article? 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