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Tina and Hamid Moghadam Building, Building 55

The Tina and Hamid Moghadam Building (Building 55) connects with and adds space and programs to the Green Building (Building 54), creating a vibrant hub for interdisciplinary environmental research and education.

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Moghadam Building (Building 55) (rendering courtesy Anmahian Winton Architects)

Tina and Hamid Moghadam Building, Building 55

21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

Status: Complete

Themes: Renovation and renewal
Sustainability
Enhancement of life and learning

Completion: 2023

The Tina and Hamid Moghadam Building (Building 55) connects with and adds space and programs to the Green Building (Building 54), creating a vibrant hub for interdisciplinary environmental research and education.

Overview

Moghadam Building (Building 55) (rendering courtesy Anmahian Winton Architects)
Moghadam Building (Building 55) at dusk (rendering courtesy Anmahian Winton Architects)
Moghadam Building (Building 55) entrance (rendering courtesy Anmahian Winton Architects)
Moghadam Building (Building 55) (rendering courtesy Anmahian Winton Architects)
Moghadam Building (Building 55), view from Bldg 14 (rendering courtesy Anmahian Winton Architects)

Status

Complete

Completion Date

2023

Themes and priorities

Renovation and renewal
Sustainability
Enhancement of life and learning

The Tina and Hamid Moghadam Building connects with and enhances the iconic Cecil and Ida Green Building (Building 54), creating new headquarters and a gateway entrance for three related departments: MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), MIT’s Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI), and the MIT-WHOI Joint Program. As part of the project, the Green Building's primary lecture hall was renovated and improved.

Just inside the doors, the building's lobby, atrium, and exhibition space showcase Earth, environmental, and climate sciences research and education. In addition to the co-located headquarters of EAPS, ESI, and the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, the Moghadam Building provides reception and office spaces, conference and study rooms, and classrooms, adding approximately 11,900 square feet of new space. A new seating area – the "Campus Living Room" – offers a welcoming, centrally located space for lingering and collaboration, and the updated Lecture Hall 54-100 has improved accessibility, seating, and teaching technologies. Outside, the exterior of the Moghadam Building is sheathed with an innovative system of wood composite panels overlaid with bracketed glass panels that reflect the surrounding trees and green space. 

Together, the Moghadam and Green Buildings provide enhanced opportunities for interdisciplinary research and the cross-pollination of ideas by bringing together EAPS (the Institute’s academic home for fundamental scientific study of the Earth, its climate system, and the origins and evolution of planets), ESI (a campus-wide effort to foster interdisciplinary education programs and innovation in the domains of climate science and earth systems, urban infrastructure, and sustainability), and the MIT-WHOI Joint Program (one of the world’s most prestigious graduate degree programs in oceanography and applied marine science and engineering). As a dynamic nexus of climate research, environmental innovation, and academic programs on campus, the complex is designed to help draw top faculty and students to MIT. 

 

Image credits

Courtesy Anmahian Winton Architects

Details

Address

21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

School or Unit

School of Science (SoS), MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) Joint Program

Use

Academic

Project Team

Architect: Anmahian Winton Architects, Cambridge, MA
Construction manager: Barr & Barr, Natick, MA
MIT Team: Megan Kefalis, Lachlan Patterson, Todd Robinson

Scope

11,900 GSF

Map

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