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Bakar BioEnginuity Team
Project Lead – Ken Lidicker, MBH Architects
Client/Owner – Ken Defiebre, Principal
Architect/Designer – John McNulty, MBH Architects
Architect/Designer – Andres Grechi, MBH Architects
Architect/Designer – Ken Lidicker, MBH Architects
Architect/Designer – Kevin Koblik, MBH Architects
Architect/Designer – Marlene Hurtado, MBH Architects
Structural Engineer – Allen Nudel, Forell | Elsesser
Structural Engineer – Masume Dana, Forell | Elsesser
Structural Engineer – Andrew Salber, Forell | Elsesser
MEP – Marco Alves, PAE
MEP – Alan Shepherd, PAE
MEP – Debbie Grieves, PAE
Historic Preservation – Jay Turnbull, FAIA, Page & Turnbull
Historic Preservation – Sarah Brummet, Page & Turnbull
Historic Preservation – Carolyn Kiernat, AIA, Page & Turnbull
Historic Preservation – Todd Smith, Page & Turnbull
Acoustics Consultant – Alexander Salter, Salter
Acoustics Consultant – Dennis Mill, Salter
LVT Consultant – Davis Keith, Salter
LVT Consultant – Hester Ng, Salter
LVT Consultant – Rob Hammond, Salter
Lab Consultant – Richard Kalish, ZGF Architects
Lab Consultant – Jorge Gallegos, ZGF Architects
Civil Engineer – Jackie Luk, Luk & Associates
Landscape Architect – Bruce Jett, JETT Landscape Architecture + Design
Landscape Architect – Lia Farley, JETT Landscape Architecture + Design
Vertical Transportation –Syska Hennessy
Photographer – Bruce Damonte, Bruce Damonte Photography
General Contractor – Brian Main, Plant Construction Company LP
General Contractor – Hunter Browne, Plant Construction Company LP
General Contractor – Justin Heinrich, Plant Construction Company LP
General Contractor – Valerie Jord, Plant Construction Company LP
General Contractor – Ryan Chilton, Plant Construction Company LP
General Contractor – Jose Lopez, Plant Construction Company LP
General Contractor – Micah Millard, Plant Construction Company LP
General Contractor – Justin Graham, Plant Construction Company LP
Bakar BioEnginuity Hub
The Bakar BioEnginuity Hub of Berkeley is a winner for the 2022 Preservation Design Award for Rehabilitation. Award recipients are selected by a jury of top professionals in the fields of architecture, engineering, planning, and history, as well as renowned architecture critics and journalists. Tickets and sponsorship options are available at californiapreservation.org/awards.
About the Bakar BioEnginuity Hub Project
Bakar BioEnginuity Hub transforms the former Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive on the University of California, Berkeley campus from a structurally-deficient inoperable space into a coworking life science lab facility designed to LEED Gold standards. The design, which includes a contrasting glass-fronted addition and two new public plazas, modernizes the historically-significant building designed by Mario Ciampi to today’s standards while honoring the building’s original brutalist design. Issues such as seismic and acoustic performance and water intrusion were addressed while bringing the building up to code and overhauling mechanical systems.
Working within the confines of highly unusual geometry, MBH Architects converted the former museum’s upper-level galleries into glass-fronted labs that overlook dramatic cantilevered ramps hanging within a sky-lit double height space. Now a lively hub for scientific innovation, this board-formed concrete icon is reborn with new purpose.