Genoptix Medical Laboratories is a national provider of rapid cancer diagnostics and is one of Fortune Magazines 10 fastest growing companies in the United States. As they accommodate this rapid growth, Genoptix is creating a worker-centric campus by progressively renovating and repurposing aging “flex-tech” buildings in the Carlsbad Research Center by bringing 21st Century architecture to a series of older buildings. This project included a full building renovation/tenant improvement to house the company’s central diagnostics laboratories. The existing shell building, previously used as a golf club manufacture’s warehouse, was completely stripped and renovated to create a more contemporary corporate image and to provide exterior gathering areas for staff and greater connectivity to adjacent Genoptix facilities. Building on the palette established on prior Genoptix projects, the architect created a total re-imaging of the property, replacing aged glass features with more energy-responsive materials and forms. Extensive use of glass tile on the interior, softened with strategic uses of wood and a warm color palette, reinforced the sense of campus and achieved an open floor plan that encourages collaboration between physicians and laboratory technicians. Genoptix is committed to rapidly informing patients of their health status; one fundamental tool to achieve that is to through an architecture that enhances the teamwork and internal communication required for this critically important mission.

Project Information

Project Address: 

2131 Faraday Avenue, Carlsbad, CA 92008

Project Owner/ Developer: 

Genoptix Medical Laboratories

Owner Contact Name/ Email: 

Tina S. Nova, Noel Smiley, nsmiley@genoptix.com

Project Architect/ Designer: 

Ferguson Pape Baldwin Architects

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