Connection, collaboration, and creative collisions abound at University of Cincinnati's Digital Futures. 

Born out of a partnerhsip between University of Cincinnati (UC), Terrex Development & Construction, and Messer Construction, UC's Digital Futures recognizes the best research is a result of collective effort. Bringing some of the university's most future-forward research teams together with industry partners, Digita Futures overcomes insitutional boundaries and facilitates intellectual cross-fertilization by displaying research in action.

With exposed floors, ceilings, and expansive glass walls, the design creates a raw yet refined industrial backdrop--punctuated by vibrant insertions of color, art, graphics, adn finishes that express a digital language in teh material environment--to inspire the creativity of the building's inhabitants.

Acting as a central hub for researchers, students, and members of hte surrounding community, the ground floor is outfitted with a cafe where visitors can sip coffee while watching the activities of a neighboring high bay drone research space and a gallery to display ongoing research. It also contains classrooms, an auditorium, community meeting spaces, and co-working spaces to allow researchers and community members to connect, share ideas, and work ina variety of postures away from their desks.

Upper floors also offer researchers spaces to support varied work modes while encouraging the kind of connection that will enrich disparate research projects. Grouped together in conceptual neighborhoods, research initiatives find their homes in labs that are arrayed along the building's perimeter, but the building's core draws people together again to share resources--VR studios, computer labs, workspaces, social spaces, and ideas.

While enabling research teams to flex into shared spaces, the labs themselves are highly adaptable to meet the changing needs of regularly rotating research initiatives. 

Digital Futures was designed by GBBN (interior fit-out design lead) in collaboration with Kieran Timberlake (exterior design lead).