Download UCSF Mission Bay Campus 10 Year Celebration

UCSF Mission Bay Campus
10 Year Celebration
Tour Guide Script & Schedule
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Begin at Genentech Hall in the Atrium at Information Hub.
UCSF’s Mission Bay Campus is the anchor of a 303-acre Mission Bay project, San Francisco’s largest
development since the building of the Golden Gate Park and one of the last remaining open parcels
of land in the city.
The area was formerly a wasteland of warehouses and old rail yards, and is being developed into an
entire new city.
UCSF broke ground for its new campus in 1999. The campus contains research buildings, a community
center, student and faculty housing, clinical facilities, and an open space quad larger than downtown San
Francisco’s Union Square. It will also be the site of the new UCSF Medical Center.
The 60 acre campus welcomed its first scientists and scholars in 2003, and we celebrate 10 years this
year. Completion of the campus is forecast for 2020, at which point the full-time campus population will
number approximately 9,000 with 20 structures.
UCSF Mission Bay is the largest biomedical university expansion in the country.
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Genentech Hall
Genentech Hall is—in design, construction, physical layout and technological capacities—a forerunner of
the interactive science of the 21st century. The building was named in honor of a $50 million contribution
from Genentech.
It was the first building to be completed at Mission Bay. Ground was broken in 1999 and the first
occupants moved in in 2003. It is the flagship building of the campus and has an outside amphitheater, an
auditorium, café, library, and bookstore.
Built to facilitate the most sophisticated basic science research, it houses the Molecular Design Institute,
Nikon Imaging Center and the Center for Advanced Technology as well as programs in structural and
chemical biology; molecular, cell and developmental biology; and advanced microscopy.
The building is 5 stories tall and offices are located in clusters called neighborhoods, with “interaction
areas” (tables, chairs, rest areas) is centered between banks of lab benches to encourage collaboration
between researchers.
Major Work of Art:
Jim Isermann lives and works in Palm Springs. For 25 years, Isermann has developed a vocabulary that
purposefully encompasses the intersection between art and design, unapologetically appropriating from
mid-century design motifs. Combining sculpture, furniture, and architecture, his bold geometries have
influenced a generation of artists who are currently exploring similar territory. Isermann’s commissioned
five-pendant chandelier is suspended at the west end of the 100-foot-tall space in the atrium of UCSF
Genentech Hall, each pendant comprising luminous spheres enclosed in an open lattice of red and
orange pentamerous shapes. Modernist furniture selected by Isermann (including chairs by Harry Bertoia
and tables by Mies van der Rohe and Charles and Ray Eames) is placed throughout the atrium, on
carpeting designed by the artist. The shape, scale, design, and colors of chandelier, furniture, and carpet
pattern relate strongly to one another.
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1:00 PM TOUR: CAT
1:00 PM TOUR: NIC
1:30 PM TOUR: CAT
1:30 PM TOUR: NIC
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Keep walking past Genentech Hall to QB3 in Byers Hall.
Next to Genentech Hall is Byers Hall, which serves as the headquarters for the California Institute for
Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3). QB3 is a partnership between UCSF, UC Berkeley and UC
Santa Cruz. It brings together scientists from these Universities to apply intensely quantitative techniques
to solve complex biological problems critical to advancing human health. This integration of mathematics,
physics, chemistry and engineering will lead to treatments for intractable diseases such as brain
disorders, cancer and diabetes.
QB3 is one of four California Institutes for Science and Innovation and the only one devoted to
Biosciences.
There are 41 principal investigators focusing on both basic and translational research. Basic scientists
work alongside teams that are designing and developing drugs and diagnosing diseases. The building
also hosts an MRI suite and a center for small molecule drug discovery.
The ultimate goal of QB3 is to get work out of the laboratory and into the hands of people who will use it
(“bench to bedside”)
Broke ground 2002; Building was occupied in 2005. Small areas of the building are also leased as
“incubator” space to start-up companies.
Jonathan Borofsky uses memories and especially dreams as the source material for all his
work. He numbers everything he creates sequentially – regardless of whether it is a scrap of paper or a
monumental sculpture. His 1984 work, titled Hammering Man at 2,908,440, is on loan to UCSF from the
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and was installed in July 2005 in the main entry to Byers Hall,
housing the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3). One of Borofsky’s bestknown images, Hammering Man expresses his respect for work and repetition. The repetitive motion of
this kinetic sculpture and its prominent identifying number echo the fusion of math and biology being
explored at QB3.
Jean Lowe created ”Books and Ideas in An Age of Anxiety” for the second floor lobby
of Byers Hall, comprising more than 90 original, painted books covering all manner of actual,
invented and subverted subjects, ranging from “The Death of Painting” to “Premature Articulation” to
“String Theory.” These straightforward and engaging painterly objects can be understood in many
different ways when compared to each other, to the group as a whole, and when considered in the
context of the work being done at Mission Bay.
A site determined, photographic installation by Ari Marcopoulos occupies the fifth floor lobby of Byers
Hall, with sweeping views to the north and south. “Untitled 5/17/2007” comprises two giant photographs
of those same views taken on that date, such that they make a permanent record of a moment in time
and define an ongoing and dynamic contrast to the ever-changing landscape development around
Mission Bay.
Vincent Fecteau has created a series of idiosyncratic, handmade relief sculptures that surround the
sterile, mass produced drinking fountains on all five floors of Byers Hall (QB3), humanizing and
foregrounding them almost as if they were found objects.
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Exit Byers Hall and walk down 4th toward city; pivot to your right
and view the construction of the UCSF Medical Center.
Located across the street from us is a 14.5-acre parcel of land that is soon to become the new UCSF
Medical Center at Mission Bay. Ground was broken 2010, and is scheduled to open in 2015.
When it is open, the hospital will be a 289-bed complex of 3 integrated hospitals:
The Benioff Children’s Hospital with 183 beds, urgent and emergency care and clinics for
pediatric primary care and specialties.
A 70-bed adult hospital for cancer patients.
A women's hospital for cancer care, specialty surgery, a 36-bed birth center and women's clinics.
It’s no coincidence that this hospital is being built adjacent to the laboratory research facilities at Mission
Bay: the goal is that this layout will provide synergistic opportunities for the discovery and
development of new treatments. Total cost of the project is approximately $1.5 billion.
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Turn left and walk up campus along 4th street to Gene Friend Way
(pedestrian path).
10. 12:15 PM TOUR: ICDC & MOCK HOSPITAL ROOMS
11. 2:30 PM TOUR: ICDC & MOCK HOSPITAL ROOMS
12. Turn right and stroll along Gene Friend Way toward the student
housing towers.
These four towers offer 430 units of residential space to 750 students, postdocs and visiting faculty.
Ground was broken in 2003 and the towers opened in 2005.
San Francisco native Richard Serra lives and works in New York City and Nova Scotia. One of the
foremost artists of his time, Serra has redefined the idea of sculpture since the 1960s, making the present
sense of site, time, and movement indispensable to aesthetic experience. For Serra, the subject is not as
much about the objects he introduces as it is about the individual encounter of the viewer through active
engagement with the whole context, as measured and defined by his massive interventions. Ballast was
installed in the campus east plaza in March 2005.
The work consists of two plates of weatherproof Cor-Ten steel, measuring 49’2” x 14’9” x 5” and weighing
70 tons each. The steel plates are located at equal distances from the ends of the space and from each
other, dividing the plaza lengthwise into three equal intervals. Each plate tilts 18” sideways in opposite
directions. The scale, weight, placement, and angle of the steel plates animate the whole space, and their
relationship to each other changes continuously as one moves, at times expanding and then collapsing
the space between them, and destabilizing one’s perception of the surrounding buildings.
Kota Ezawa’s Hotel Movies is an installation in the four lobbies of the Mission Bay Housing block. Each
lobby contains a triptych based on a scene of a film in which a hotel building plays a central role. Placed
at the entrances to the four buildings, this image series addresses architecture that functions also as a
kind of fictional character to be occupied by people.
13. Turn left and walk into courtyard between student housing, CVRI and the
Diller Building.
14. Cardiovascular Research Institute
The Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI) is on your left. CVRI has existed at UCSF for over 50
years, but the scientists that make up the institute were dispersed over a number of aging sites. This new
building is now home to over 500 researchers and clinicians. In addition to research space, the building
is also home to outpatient cardiovascular care facilities. At the same time, the hospital-based CVRI
research programs remain at Parnassus.
The exterior façade of the building is really interesting. It is made up “of different materials and systems
procured from many different sources around the world, such as travertine stone from Italy; terracotta tile
and baguette’s from Germany; metal panels from Colorado and Pennsylvania; a polycarbonate wall
system and mechanical roof screens from Pennsylvania; aluminum curtain-wall system and a utilized
curtain-wall system from Fremont, Calif.; glass glazing from Minnesota; glass from China; and aluminum
sunshades from Texas.”
Miroslaw Balka was born in 1958 in Otwock, Poland, near Warsaw, and continues to live and work in his
childhood village where he turned his family home into a studio. Much of his work deals with personal and
collective memory. Seemingly bare and austere, with a sense of absence and empty space, it is defined
by the human presence that experiences and completes it. One becomes aware of the empty spaces
between and under Balka’s things; his often elegiac sculptures call out for the human body. Originally
conceived in 2004, HEAL is a stainless steel structure in the form of a word. It stands at an angle, on a
large concrete square that is aligned but not quite in sync with the adjacent paving. Looking up at the
austere structure, the word is in reverse and unintelligible, but looking down, the shadow of the word is
projected on the pavement below, moving and changing throughout the day with the path of the sun. The
construction is precisely fabricated, hard and impersonal, but on one of its supports is a small, uniquely
formed sculptural basin where a valve can be pushed and a small spout of water provides a cool drink.
The intimacy and sustenance of this act of drinking seems to make a stark contrast with the surroundings,
and it may be like the contrast one feels when walking among the massive buildings at Mission Bay, all of
which are devoted in one way or another to the goal of healing the human body.
15. 2 PM TOUR: Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Construction of this building began in 2006 and the building opened in 2009. This building was named to
honor a $35 million gift from the Diller Family, which at the time was the largest gift from an individual to
UCSF.
The Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer center doubles and consolidates the existing space and
programs dedicated to cancer research at UCSF. It expands programs focused on cancers of the
prostate, kidney and brain.
The Diller Cancer Center is the only cancer center in Northern California to hold the National Cancer
Institute's (NCI) prestigious "comprehensive" designation.
To be designated “comprehensive” a center must have:
Laboratory research into the causes and events of cancer's progression;
Clinical research to translate new knowledge into viable treatments;
Sensitive, state-of-the-art patient care;
Population research that can lead to prevention, early detection, and quality-of-life improvement
for those living with cancer
16. Turn around and walk back down 4th street to Gene Friend Way.
Turn right on Gene Friend Way and walk past and view Arthur
and Toni Rembe Rock Hall (northwest corner of 4th and Gene
Friend).
Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Hall houses the Center for Brain Development as well as several
laboratories for programs in genetics and the behavioral and developmental sciences.
Investigators here conduct research to provide fundamental insights into biology and disease, organism
development and the organization of nerve cells. Their findings will revolutionize the understanding and
treatment of psychological disorders, neurodegenerative diseases, human growth disorders and many
other currently incurable illnesses.
Like Genentech Hall, this building has an open design to foster interaction and collaboration between the
nearly 400 scientists, graduate students, and post-docs. The building contains 32 laboratories and a
vivarium (animal care facility…mostly fruit flies and fish).
Broke ground in 2001. Occupancy in 2004. Cost: $89 million.
17. Next door to Rock Hall is Neurosciences Research Building (just
completed).
Newly completed is the Neurosciences Laboratory and Clinical Research Building. Ground was broken in
2010 and houses the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, the UCSF Department of Neurology and
the W.M. Keck Foundation Center for Integrative Neuroscience at UCSF.
The first floor of the building will be occupied by clinicians and clinical researchers of the UCSF Memory
and Aging Center, which is part of the Department of Neurology. Laboratories on the other four floors will
bring together clinicians, clinician-researchers and basic scientists to accelerate advances against such
disorders as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, stroke, migraine, epilepsy,
autism, mental retardation and cerebral palsy.
The total project cost $200 million. The development structure for this building is quite different and
unique from the other buildings we’ve visited. UCSF owns the land, but the building itself is owned by a
private developer. UCSF is leasing the land to the developer and, once the construction is complete, will
enter into a space lease for the building for a period of between 32-40 years. At the end of the lease
period, ownership of the building, paid in full, will revert to UCSF. This model is intended to provide an
alternative delivery structure for UC projects.
18. Koret Quad
The Koret Quad is a 3.2-acre space: informal, landscaped gathering place for the public as well as
faculty, staff and students. It’s roughly the size of Union Square in downtown.
The chairs, benches and other furniture (like filing cabinets) that you can see around the quad are part of
an untitled art collection by artist Roy McMakin. Roy McMakin’s work addresses the design and use of
domestic environments, finding in them unexpected and hidden associations. Subtle and highly crafted,
his furniture and his art explore the nature of function, ornamentation, decoration, and celebration in both
public and private life. His untitled collection of furniture was installed in the Koret Quad in July 2004.
McMakin’s materials include concrete, fiberglass, wood, bronze, enamel, steel, and stone. The
commissioned work features double-sided concrete benches, which are arranged in a regular pattern
around the perimeter of Mission Bay’s primary outdoor space.The furniture is sliced, transformed, and
rearranged in various ways. The work includes a wide variety of objects — all functional as seating,
including enamel laboratory refrigerators and banker’s boxes, and typical office and patio chairs cast in
bronze. There are also natural boulders, bronze tree stumps, and planks.
19. The large orange building is the William J. Rutter Center – the
first building erected in 2003.
20. 2:30 PM TOUR: BAKAR FITNESS & RECREATION CENTER
The building is named after William J. Rutter, who was a member of the UCSF faculty and was a pioneer
in the formation of the modern biotechnology industry. In 1981 Rutter co-founded Chiron, which was
pivotal to the growth of the field of biotechnology in its early years
The center broke ground November 2002; opened October 2005. It is a public building, open to the
community. It features a landmark tower and an 80-foot, light-filled atrium.
The community center itself was designed to foster industry interactions with the campus and serves as
the social hub of UCSF Mission Bay…a place where leading scientists and clinicians interact with
students, business leaders and community members in a lively and welcoming gathering area.
The building is essentially divided into two facilities: Bakar Fitness & Recreation Center and the
Conference Center. The fitness center includes an indoor and a roof top swimming pool, volleyball and
basketball courts, rock climbing wall,
Other amenities include conference facility, student services offices, a child day care center,
restaurant/pub, library and game room.
Most Significant Art Piece:
Stephan Balkenhol lives and works in Karlsruhe, Germany, and Meisenthal, France. His work in
roughhewn painted wood and cast metal has contributed to a rediscovery of the figure, especially as it
relates to architecture. Balkenhol frequently works with scale and context in unexpected ways,
representing people, animals, and sometimes combinations of the two. For his commissioned work,
installed in the light-filled atrium of the campus community center in October 2005, Balkenhol carved four
standing figures out of the trunk of a single tree. Each quarter section of the tree is carved into a figure,
integral with its base. The figures, elevated and outsized, facing in different directions, mediate between
human scale and the scale of the 80-foot-tall atrium space. They express its function as a place where
different people cross paths.
21. Keep walking along Gene Friend Way to Owens Street. Turn right,
cross the street, and enter 1500 Owens Street.
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2:00 PM: ROBOTIC PHARMACY TOUR
2:30 PM: ROBOTIC PHARMACY TOUR
3:00 PM: ROBOTIC PHARMACY TOUR
3:30 PM: ROBOTIC PHARMACY TOUR
3:00 PM: PHYSICAL THERAPY FACILITIES TOUR
The building at 1500 Owens Street houses a few different facilities, including the UCSF Medical Center’s
pharmacy, and the Physical Therapy Clinic, which you will soon get to see. The most visible and biggest
occupant of this building is the Orthopedic Institute.
The Institute encompasses many state-of-the-art programs and advanced patient services, including:
Human Performance Center
Dance Medicine Center
Pain Management Center
Patient and Family Education Area
Specialty Clinics in hand and upper extremity, sports medicine and foot and ankle
Surgery Center comprised of 4 operating suites, and 2 procedure rooms
Cartilage Regeneration Center
Orthotics and Prosthetics Center
Imaging Services