Students were entrusted with the design of a laboratory facility for a private corporation on a site in suburban Albany near the Albany airport and Shaker heritage society. Ten distinct lab programs will be developed by students, but these will be paired to facilitate research. The labs included physics laboratories, medical laboratories, materials testing laboratories, and applied technologies laboratories.

Students were responsible for researching, expanding, and articulating their three-story programs for their specific assigned area of expertise. They also collaborated with an expert from the field to which they were each assigned in order to get a more accurate idea of the systems and spaces required.