Higher Education Design

Plunkett Raysich Architects, LLP worked collaboratively with CO Architects, a nationally recognized architectural planning, programming, and design firm, to create a new 330,000 sq. ft. Microbial Science Building at the Univeristy of Wisconsin - Madison. Throughout the project process PRA provided local representation for the client, expertise in the City’s permitting and entitlement process, and architectural design services.
Read moreThe resulting 330,000 sq. ft. Microbial Sciences Building unites instructional and research efforts of three departments – Bacteriology, Medical Microbiology and Immunology, and Food Microbiology and Toxicology – into one community. Unique building features include interdisciplinary laboratory facilities for 47 research groups (500 lab personnel), 11 instructional labs with approximately 360 student stations and support facilities, a Vivarium (animal facility), four levels of underground parking and a large, state-of-the-art international symposium auditorium. The building also features nine BSL-3 labs, six BSL-3 Ag suites and three general assignment classrooms.
A lab and classroom within the building
A lab and classroom within the building
Three-story atrium that has several collaboration areas
Three-story atrium that has several collaboration areas
One of the many classrooms within the building with a lec...
One of the many classrooms within the building with a lecture in session
Three-story atrium with and adjacent collaboration area f...
Three-story atrium with and adjacent collaboration area for students to utilize between classes
Lab for student use
Lab for student use
Corridor in the Microbial Sciences building with a glass ...
Corridor in the Microbial Sciences building with a glass wall to observe a class in session