Fumihiko Maki's MIT Media Lab
Slideshow by Matt Chaban
MIT's Media Lab recently inaugurated a new building designed by Fumihiko Maki that brings the interactivity and connectivity the lab has long promoted online into the real world.
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MIT_Maki_3Atrium
The new Media Lab is all about the cross-pollination of ideas, which is achieved through the cross-pollination of people in aerie atria around which the building's programming is centered. This is the third floor atrium.
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MIT_Maki_1Atrium
The atrium on the first floor is equally inviting, where colorful stairways encourage their use while transparent elevators add to the dynamism.
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MIT_Maki_Lab
The heart of the new building is seven cube-shaped, double-height labs staggered throughout the building.
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MIT_Maki_Aerie
The light-filled building fits together somewhat like a puzzle, with its multifarious volumes—the labs, atria, plus offices, conference rooms, and cafes—all fitting together snugly.
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MIT_Maki_Offices
The mezzanine offices overlook the labs so professor can keep a close eye on the exciting work being done within.
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MIT_Maki_conf
The building also has a close connection to its surroundings through its glassy curtain wall, which affords views of Cambridge and, just across the Charles River from this conference room, the Prudential Center and Boston's Back Bay.
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MIT_Maki_Day
The interlocking volumes that define the building's interior are also plainly visible from without, as the curtain wall delivers light while also telegraph the activity inside—almost like a giant ant farm.
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MIT_Maki_Scale
Like most of Maki's work, the building expresses a muscular clarity, at once light and imposing, solid and see-through.