This 44,000 sf flagship production center adapted a historic Civil War era shipbuilding warehouse in the Brooklyn Navy Yard into an advanced manufacturing facility and headquarters that houses research, design, prototyping, and fabrication under one roof. Designed to be cleaner and more efficient than traditional factories, the project’s adaptive re-use of legacy infrastructure greatly reduces the carbon footprint of New York City’s first “smart factory”.

Leaving the building’s shell largely intact, transparent “pods” are stacked on two floors to create enclosed workspaces - some of which needed to be airtight, soundproof, and/or climate controlled - without cutting up the building, impeding the flow of collaborative spaces, or compromising the beauty of the long, narrow building. Indirect LED "puck lights” are concealed on top of the structural trusses, while carefully placed and aimed LED tracklights illuminate the architecture and provide all necessary task lighting.

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