Project Details
- Project Name
- Caltech Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies
- Client/Owner
- California Institute of Technology
- Project Types
- Education
- Project Scope
- New Construction
- Size
- 3,147 sq. feet
- Year Completed
- 2017
- Team
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Andrew Labov, FAIA, LEED AP, Principal in Charge / Project Manager
Jennifer Swedell, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Laboratory Planner
Sona Aroush, Assoc, IIDA, Interior Designer
- Consultants
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Design Architect and Architect of Record: CO Architects,Electrical Engineer: Integrated Consulting Engineers,Plumbing Engineer: Integrated Consulting Engineers,Structural Engineer: John A. Martin & Associates,Audio-visual and Information Technology: Vantage Technology Consulting Group
- Project Status
- Built
- Cost
- $5
- Style
- Modern
Project Description
The Center for Autonomous Systems & Technologies (CAST) stimulates interdisciplinary research and the open exchange of ideas in the expanding area of autonomous drones, robots, and satellites for use in science, industry, and medicine. A renovation of the first floor of the 1940s-era von Kármán Building, at the heart of CAST is a 3-story tall, open-air drone testing arena and observation deck, formed by covering an existing courtyard. This dynamic space provides researchers a place to demonstrate their ideas under variable environmental conditions. Testing in the arena is supported by indoor “maker and marker-spaces”, shared by researchers, students, and industry partners.
