September 12, 2005—The national architecture, engineering, interior design and planning firm of EwingCole has begun design work on the new Exploration Sciences Building at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, Maryland.
The multi-million dollar facility, which will achieve LEED compliance as an environmentally responsible structure, is the first part of GSFC’s Master Plan and will serve as a “launching pad” for NASA-driven research over the next 50 years, the company says.
The Exploration Sciences Building (ESB) will enable cutting-edge research and promote greater internal collaboration among scientists at Goddard. It is the first project in a campus-wide master plan, and is planned as the centerpiece of a unified campus that will help meet a goal of consolidating related research initiatives. The EwingCole team’s new design, developed in collaboration with San Francisco-based M+W Zander, implements elements of the GSFC master plan that will unite the campus, currently located across two separate areas.
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