los angeles CALIFORNIA

The Center for Fulfillment, Knowledge, and Innovation is a reimagination of the historic Detroit Packard Plant. The new complex combines a transport hub, industrial park, factory, and university, to transform the Packard Plant in response to accelerated innovation in robotic manufacturing, autonomous transportation, and online retail. The architecture of the new complex prioritizes flow, movement, and processing—an interconnected network of products, people, robots, and ideas. . . .

The design evolved through the use of the Microsoft HoloLens and the visualization work of Framestore.

The historic buildings’ first two floors house inventory including an online retail fulfillment center, a food port, an autonomous livery-car depot, and an aerial-drone port. The upper level consists of four corporate research centers and an auditorium/convention center. The entire complex is anchored by two five-story university satellite buildings, connected on the fourth level by a walkway that supports four reconfigurable collaboration spaces that can be moved and docked adjacent to research and conference centers seasonally. Below the research park and above the fulfillment center a 1.7-mile-long logistics-drone superhighway links between the 25 existing elevator cores on the site creates an efficient thoroughfare for the intelligent movement of goods, equipment, and materials.

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Greg Lynn FORM
Melissa Shin
Sean Boyd
Jasper Lynn
May Wang

UCLA IDEAS Robotics Lab
Peter Vikar

UCLA A+UD PhD Research Assistants
Iman Ansari
Jia Gu
Alexander Maymind

Trimble & Microsoft HoloLens
Aviad Almagor
Darren Thomson
Darrin Hurd
Jordan Lawver

Framestore
Ben West, Creative Director
Chris Eckardt, CG Supervisor
Anthony Gibbs, Design Lead
Duncan Elms, Design
John Cook, CG Lead
Sean Dollins, CG Artist
James Healy, CG Artist
Caleb Ollivant, CG Artist
Pedram Torbati, Editor
Humberto Reyanga, VFX Editor
Jonah Braun, Colorist
Beau Leon, Color Supervisor
Stephanie Espinetti, Production Coordinator

Drone Footage
Keith Muratori

Photographs By
Mike Boening
Jon W

Piaggio Fast Forward
Jamar Bromley

Thanks to the Canadian Centre for Architecture.