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Project Background
Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) is a flexible state-of-the-art office facility designed to house young technology and life sciences companies. The environment is filled with glass, natural light, and high tech finishes that create an exciting, high energy atmosphere for the inventors, innovators and scientists who have chosen to build their businesses there. CIC partnered with Commodore to expand their operation into 70,000 additional SF of space on the 3rd and 4th floors of One Broadway in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Unique Space
The renovations on the 4th floor included the conversion of a former parking garage ramp into office space. Thirty-two sky lights and two light tubes carry natural daylight from the 5th floor roof, down through the 4th floor to the 3rd floor offices.
The layout at CIC is extraordinarily dense. This density was a catalyst for creating new methods of way-finding, which include the use of vibrant colors, landmarks, and paths that wind through the neighborhoods of office pods. During the design phase, particular attention was paid to connectivity and communications. Idea Paint Walls abound. Conference room wizards assist residents in booking meeting space.
CIC offices are designed to be flexible, without feeling temporary. Ghost doors, the equivalent of a door frame with frosted glass, can go from being a window to a door in just minutes, to accommodate a new configuration for a tenant.
Phantom doors, or pre-framed doorways, exist within the drywall. If a tenant’s business grows, a door can quickly be cut out of the drywall to provide a link to bigger space. Neighborhoods of office pods expand and contract in minutes. |
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