Clark Nexsen 

Location: Research Triangle Park, NC

Greenhouses are the heart of ag-tech science but are often sequestered from view as utilitarian structures.  5 Laboratory Drive restores greenhouses to prominence as glowing objects in a garden. This renovation of an existing S+T building reorients the main entry bringing greenhouses into the foreground.  Selective demolition untethers the greenhouses from the building creating a campus green framed by greenhouses on one side and the new building façade on the other. The core and shell renovation re-clads existing lab buildings with zinc and curtainwall.  The result is a transformation of a singular anonymous building into a vibrant ag-tech research community.