Dusk view of the Life Lab’s main entrance. All images: Robert Benson Photography Exterior view of The Shriram Center for Bioengineering & Chemical Engineering. Image: Jeremy Bittermann

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Nathaniel Finley, AIA, LEED AP William Riley, AIA, LEED AP Luke Voiland, AIA, LEED AP Shepley Bulfinch

The Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab is the newest addition to Harvard University’s Innovation Labs ecosystem, a unique three lab environment focused on supporting Harvard students and alumni in their quest to create ventures that improve the world. Located on Harvard’s Allston, Mass. campus, the 15,000 sf, two-story building, designed by national architecture firm Shepley Bulfinch, creates much-needed space for life sciences ventures that have a connection to the Harvard University community.

The mission of the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab is to provide students, faculty,

John O’Toole and Arjan Duyvestein Bora Architects

COMPLETING THE MASTERPLAN

The Shriram Center for Bioengineering & Chemical Engineering is the fourth and final building for the Science and Engineering Quad (SEQ) on the main campus of Stanford University, providing a new home for both the Department of Bioengineering and the Department of Chemical Engineering, which were previously dispersed among several locations on campus. Serving both graduate and undergraduate education, Shriram houses 34 custom tailored research laboratories, an undergraduate teaching floor with five teaching labs ( Biology, Chemistry, Tissue Culture, Optics and Senior Design), a small animal vivarium for rodents, fish and birds, office spaces for 450 PhD students and 34 faculty, departmental administration centers, a lecture hall, staffed core labs and a host of other