BASIS

LOCATION: SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS, USA

YEAR: 2021

AREA: 15,000 sf / 1,393 sqm INTERIOR & 1,200 sf / 111 sqm EXTERIOR 

PROGRAM: CORPORATE OPEN WORK STATIONS, MEETING ROOMS, OUTDOOR PATIOS, EV CHARGING STATIONS

STATUS: BUILT

    • commercial / office

    • living biophilic walls & landscape

    • solar array

    • adaptive reuse

  • This project is the corporate headquarters of BasisTech, a diversified provider of analytic software and services with over twenty years of experience as a vendor to the U. S. government, where its technology is used by nearly every element of the U. S. Intelligence Community serving missions in national security, law enforcement, border control, and anti-money laundering. 

    The project was envisioned as a transformation of a 50-year old structure into a fully resilient, post-COVID accelerator facility that passes necessary U. S. security clearance guidelines for its operations. 

    The full-amenity accelerator facility includes 13 meeting rooms, a high-performance media studio for live recording and broadcasts, open workstations that can seat 200 people, office bathrooms using Dyson sinks and Toto smart toilets, a fully-serviced kitchen, lounge, 3 short-term private guest rooms with private bathrooms for international guests, shared laundry and storage facilities, and a flexible event space for 40-75 person gatherings. 

    The design includes a 50 foot living biophilic wall, hospital-grade air systems with UV sterilization, and ERV-based ventilation systems, highly secured card reader access system and security camera system. 

    We performed architectural design, interior design, landscape design, project management and construction management services for this project. 

    We are currently retained as the architectural consultant, providing project management and construction management for this work. 

    • architectural design

    • permitting

    • bidding

    • construction management

    • project management

    • furniture, fixtures & equipment

    • operations management support

  • Architects Local, Sebastian Mariscal Studio, Workstudio, R. W. Sullivan Engineering, Neovirtus Engineering, Lumen Studio, Groundview Llc, Jaywalk Studio Llc, Henrybuilt, Mcnelley Electric, Kris Johnson Mechanical & Electrical, D&D, Dnet, Superior Plumbing, Page Demolition, Redthread, Crystalia, Crf Interiors (Tate), Bsbsi, Maharam, Automation Solutions, Allied Universal

  • Nina Gonzalez, Hector Castillo

Full-service commercial kitchen designed as a pavilion within the interior space

Lounge area celebrating remnants of the 50-year old structure as part of its lounge and dining space

Full-service commercial kitchen designed as a pavilion within the interior space

Lounge area celebrating remnants of the 50-year old structure as part of its lounge and dining space

Boardroom with steel-framed tempered glazing, blackened steel door entrance, acoustically performing fabric walls and ceiling, and custom-built furniture

Sunken garden with landscape design leveraging the available three-storey void space and creating pockets of outdoor workspace and dining

40’ biophilic living green wall

Conference rooms wrapped with tongue and groove natural hickory wood, with ceiling slopes of varying angles

Entrance to commercial patio through the park next door

Entrance path way from the garage driveway

Yellow portal into gender neutral bathrooms

Open workstations above a heigh adjustable raised floor access system to conceal electrical, data and hvac systems

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