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The Phil and Penny Knight Campus at the University of Oregon was designed by Ennead Architects in collaboration with Bora Architecture and Interiors.\u00a0Courtesy Bruce Damonte <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Looking across busy Franklin Boulevard from the University of Oregon\u2019s historic campus in Eugene to its striking new Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact, two architectural features immediately stand out, both functional yet offering unmistakable symbolism. A double-skin facade with triangular shading panels made of fritted glass, bringing light into a well-sealed envelope, acts as a kind of contemporary quilt: a unified whole from many pieces. A sky-bridge also connects this 160,000-square-foot facility the main campus, its column-free span seeming to defy gravity.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s what this project is all about: bringing brilliant minds together to make a leap.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted this to be a different icon, that wasn\u2019t staid brick campus-oriented but sort of promised a bright future,\u201d says Todd Schliemann, a partner with New York\u2019s Ennead Architects, which designed the building with Portland\u2019s Bora Architecture & Interiors. \u201cWhich is what their mission is all about.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Courtesy Bruce Damonte <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The project was made possible thanks to a $500 million gift from athletic apparel giant Nike\u2019s co-founder, Phil Knight, who competed as a member of Oregon\u2019s track program in the 1960s and has helped underwrite several high-budget athletic-department facilities here, including nearby Matthew Knight Arena and the new Hayward Field (the latter of which will host next year\u2019s track and field world championships). Knight and his wife Penny have also devoted much of their fortune to funding the construction of new science facilities in Portland at Oregon Health & Science University.<\/p>\n

Like its name indicates, the Knight Campus is meant to accelerate the timeline between discovery and deployment of scientific innovations, all by encouraging interaction and collaboration across disciplines.<\/p>\n

First intended as a long, linear structure, the design instead evolved into two L-shaped wings facing each other, which created a courtyard in between. The architects left the ground floor open to the public, with easy access to the adjacent Mill Race, a former industrial waterway that the project helped restore and make available to the public. Above the courtyard, an overhanging roof made with an EFTE-clad canopy extends over an outdoor seating area.<\/p>\n

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Courtesy Bruce Damonte <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Upper floors in the Knight Campus\u2019s two towers are devoted to interdisciplinary research neighborhoods that bring traditional laboratory research and the burgeoning field of computational research together. Inside the labs, bays are shared rather than given private dominion to individual researchers. In these double-height spaces, overhanging mezzanines contain offices for faculty, fostering a sense that this is one combined hive of activity.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ll get a text on the second floor from someone on the fourth floor going, \u2018Hey, stay there: I need to talk to you,\u201d says Darin Dehle, director of design and construction for the University of Oregon.<\/p>\n

In addition to its labs and support spaces as well as classrooms, the Knight Campus also includes spaces where startup companies rent research space, all part of the mission of accelerating the pace at which innovative ideas get to market. \u201cThe researchers and grad students often have one foot in the real world while they\u2019re learning,\u201d Schliemann says. \u201cThe idea is it isn\u2019t an ivory castle, where you get spit out into the real world and have to intern for ten years before you can be effective.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Courtesy Bruce Damonte <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The project was designed to meet LEED Gold certification, which starts with the double-skin facade, which aids natural ventilation. \u201cThe space in between the layers creates a natural cavity for convection,\u201d says Schliemann. \u201cYou can make a glass wall without the detrimental effects.\u201d Laboratory benches are also separated from researchers\u2019 write-up desks by an interior glass wall, reducing the volume of space that needs frequent air changes.<\/p>\n

The Knight Campus is also the first laboratory buildings in the United States to be built partially with mass timber (sourced from a producer in southern Oregon, D.R. Johnson), including for administrative spaces surrounding the laboratories. \u201cIt makes a lot of sense, not only from the carbon sequestering point of view,\u201d Dehle says. \u201cWe definitely took advantage of the aesthetic. It warms the space up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ultimately inviting aesthetics and state-of-the-art science facilities\u2014form and function\u2014are part of the same goal: bringing the best minds together. \u201cThe idea of what it looked like was more than a pretty glass thing,\u201d Schliemann says. \u201cIt was fostering inspiration.\u201d<\/p>\n

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