Vanderbilt University Medical Center Jacobson Research Building
Tennessee, USA
Upon completion of a Master Plan for the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Davis Brody Bond Aedas designed the medical research facility, known as the Jacobson Research Building. The new facility was built over two existing occupied buildings. Phase I consists of a 4-story vertical expansion of an older laboratory.
Phase II consists of a research tower that spans over an existing auditorium building. Both of these buildings remained in use during the construction of the Research Building. This solution provides 400,000 gross square feet of new, state-of-the-art biomedical research laboratories without the need to expand the Medical Center’s campus, and without any major impact to the campus’ site plan and functional layout. Other benefits include optimal adjacencies for various interdisciplinary research programs, improved MEP infrastructure, and improved planning and overall building efficiencies for all three buildings.
Davis Brody Bond Aedas has worked on the Vanderbilt Campus in previous years, designing the Eskind Biomedical Library, which is adjacent to the Jacobson Research Building. Our understanding of the Vanderbilt campus has helped the University to achieve the aesthetically cohesive environment they desire as they move towards the future.
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