One of the most exciting projects happening at Rogers Partners is the collaboration with Nanotronics to reimagine a historic building in the Brooklyn Navy Yard as a fully integrated advanced manufacturing facility and headquarters.
Nanotronics has a vision for reinventing the high-tech production process as a seamless workspace, from idea to design to engineering to sales. This requires a complete rethinking not only of this historic building, but also how to design for a cutting edge production process in the urban context. The shared goal is nothing short of bringing advanced manufacturing back to the urban core.
From Fast Company: “’I used to say that it’s not the next great social network that should be invented in a dorm room, it’s the next factory,’ said [Nanotronics CEO Matthew] Putman.”
From Architects Newspaper: “Rogers Partners worked around the spatial constraints of the long, narrow industrial building by clustering pod spaces around the boundary walls, leaving the center of the building open. A two-story public gathering space will run the length of the building and leave the jumble of historic beams and trusses exposed, while a figure-eight of second-story catwalks will crisscross the gap. At 300 feet long and only 88 feet wide, the design team kept the center of the ground-floor clear to leave as much space for circulation as possible.”