建筑设计：史密斯工作组
地点：美国，密歇根
面积：840平方米
年份：2011
摄影：史密斯工作组授权

创新研究所是亨利福特医疗系统和韦恩州立工程大学的合作项目。整个空间将被用作发展新的尖端医药科技的智库，比如癌症实时诊断的应用，人工肺等等。创新研究所将会是一个激发灵感和合作的空间，并将为在这里分享想法的不同背景的志同道合的专业人士提供最新科技。创新研究所位于底特律市中心亨利福特医疗系统的医学院老教学楼。由阿尔伯特于1925年设计，老教学楼包含了最初的大部分木结构，一个宏伟的大理石楼梯，复杂的花冠雕塑和一个桶形的穹顶。

这个项目的目标之一就是揭开并保护建筑的历史，同时引入五光十色的高科技环境，提供创造性思想的完善化方案，并为使用它的人们提供灵感。天花板被设想为一种现代的、好玩的雕塑的形式，对现有的条件做出反应，缓和新老之间的矛盾。总体形状是一个铰接件形成的折叠平面。自然地具有方向性，构件使得平面具有可读出的几何形状，同时引入了一种微妙的感觉。多孔结构使许多功能性策略简单化，并使得轮廓变得好玩。当你在空间中移动时，很多空间手法（有些很微妙，有些则不是）就会变得很明显。

主要的二层空间设计得非常灵活，可以使大概十个项目同时顺利进行。多样化的技术和易于重新配置的交往空间使得思想可以顺畅地得到最适宜的交流。每个项目将由五至十人组成的小组进行开发。我们采用Revit的自适应组件技术以便快速地研究设计的排列。先进技术使得很复杂的形状得以迅速实现迭代过程。

铰接件形成了看不见的几何平面。除了天花板的整体形状，我们还可以研究各部分的形状，大小和间距。基本平面几何的手法更新了所有已用的构件，简化了繁重的任务（一个接一个地构件建模）。这种方法被证明用于探索预算决策的本质是非常有用的。反过来，我们可以很快地处理构件间距和大小来理解预算的图面和空间影响。

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Architects: SmithGroupJJR
Location: Michigan, USA
Area: 840 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Courtesy of SmithGroupJJR

The Innovation Institute is a collaboration between Henry Ford Health System and Wayne State University College of Engineering. The space will be used as a think tank for developing new advances in medical technology such as applications for real time diagnosis of cancer, artificial lungs, etc. The Innovation Institute will be a space which inspires thought and collaboration and provides the latest technology for like-minded professionals from different backgrounds to share ideas.

The Innovation Institute is located in the 38,000 gsf Old Education Building on Henry Ford Health System’s main hospital campus in downtown Detroit. Designed in 1925 by Albert Kahn, the Old Education Building contains a majority of the original woodwork, a grand marble staircase, intricate crown modeling and a barrel vaulted ceiling. A goal of this project was to uncover and preserve the history of the building while introducing a dazzling, high-tech environment which supports the generation of creative ideas and serves as inspiration for those who use it.

The main second floor space was designed to be entirely flexible to facilitate the development of approximately ten projects simultaneously. A variety of technologies and interaction spaces that can be easily reconfigured are provided to facilitate optimal exchange of ideas. Each project will be developed in small groups of five to ten individuals.

The ceiling is conceived as a sculptural form, modern and playful, which reacts to existing conditions and mitigates new and old. Overall, the shape is a folded plane formed using articulated pieces. Directional in nature, the pieces allow the geometry of the plane to read, while introducing delicacy to the object. Porosity simplifies many functional strategies, most notably fire suppression, and allows for playful silhouetting of such objects. As you move through the space, a variety of spatial manipulations (some subtle, some not) become apparent.

We utilized adaptive component technologies in Revit in order to quickly study permutations of the design. Technology allows for a rapid iterative process of rather complicated shapes. Articulated elements are “hosted” to an invisible folded plane geometry. Manipulation of the base geometry (plane) updates all hosted members, which simplified a very cumbersome task (member by member modeling approach). In addition to the overall shape of the ceiling, we could parametrically study member shape, size and spacing. This approach turned out to be invaluable as a way to explore implications of budget decisions. In turn, we could quickly manipulate member spacing and size to understand graphical and spatial impacts of budget.