LA BIOMED MASTERPLAN
TORRENCE, CALIFORNIA

Project Type
Medical Research
Project Designer
John Lockwood Carhart
Architect of Record
ZGF Architects, Los Angeles

   The Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA Biomed) is a world-renowned non-profit scientific research organization that is dedicated to saving lives throughout the world. The institute is located on the 10 acre Harbor-UCLA medical center campus.

   The program called for a new vision for the campus that would incorporate 3 new 80,000 square foot laboratory buildings, a campus commons, formal campus entrance, and large-scale outdoor spaces.
The new buildings were required to connect functionally with several of the existing buildings that would later be torn down as part of the long-term masterplan.  John’s design organizes the new buildings strategically to form large-scale campus spaces which allow for social interaction and various recreational uses.

   Connectivity between buildings is established by an elevated passageway, or spine, which connects each building to each other and extends eastward to a future parking garage.

   John’s role on the masterplan was to initiate all design ideas and strategies and to work collaboratively with the firm’s partners, team members and consultants.