Where Ideas Become Real.
LabHabitat™ is a place to live, work, create, research, fabricate, manufacture, grow, and collaborate.
A New Kind of Place.
LabHabitat™ is more than a building. It is an ecosystem for human creativity and productive collaboration. A LabHabitat can transform underutilized commercial real estate into dynamic environments where people can live, work, research, build companies, manufacture products, grow food, and interact with one another.
Co-Living
Spaces designed for people who want to live within an active innovation community.
Co-Working
Professional environments for entrepreneurs, researchers, engineers, designers, consultants, and independent professionals.
Co-Creating
Collaborative environments where ideas become experiments, prototypes, designs, products, and businesses.
Co-Manufacturing
Shared access to fabrication, machining, digital manufacturing, electronics, robotics, and other production capabilities.
Co-Growing
Urban agriculture, vertical farming, aeroponics, aquaponics, biological research, food production, and community greenery.
Science Without Silos.
Innovation accelerates when different disciplines occupy the same ecosystem. A biologist can meet an engineer. An engineer can meet a farmer. A researcher can meet a manufacturer. A designer can meet an entrepreneur. A problem can meet someone capable of solving it.
The Tools to Build the Future.
Potential shared equipment includes 3D printers, CNC machines, laser cutters, waterjet cutters, digital fabrication systems, tools for wood, metals, polymers, composites, renewable and experimental materials, plus electronics, robotics and instrumentation.
From Prototype to Production.
Innovation should not stop at the prototype. LabHabitat™ connects research and development with the tools needed to make physical products.
Small-batch production
Designed for the LabHabitat micro-manufacturing environment.
Product development
Designed for the LabHabitat micro-manufacturing environment.
Custom manufacturing
Designed for the LabHabitat micro-manufacturing environment.
Experimental manufacturing
Designed for the LabHabitat micro-manufacturing environment.
Maker-to-market development
Designed for the LabHabitat micro-manufacturing environment.
Hardware startups
Designed for the LabHabitat micro-manufacturing environment.
Robotics
Designed for the LabHabitat micro-manufacturing environment.
Electronics
Designed for the LabHabitat micro-manufacturing environment.
Materials
Designed for the LabHabitat micro-manufacturing environment.
Consumer products
Designed for the LabHabitat micro-manufacturing environment.
Scientific instruments
Designed for the LabHabitat micro-manufacturing environment.
Agricultural systems
Designed for the LabHabitat micro-manufacturing environment.
Food technologies
Designed for the LabHabitat micro-manufacturing environment.
Grow Food Where People Live.
LabHabitat™ brings agriculture into the urban environment through vertical farming, aeroponics and aquaponics. Vertical space can grow leafy greens, herbs, vegetables, microgreens, seedlings, specialty crops and research crops.
Vertical agriculture becomes a research platform, educational environment, business opportunity, community resource, biological laboratory and urban food system.
Food Is a Technology.
Grow. Study. Process. Prepare. Experiment. Share.
Food science
Potential LabHabitat area for interdisciplinary exploration and enterprise.
Nutrition
Potential LabHabitat area for interdisciplinary exploration and enterprise.
Plant biology
Potential LabHabitat area for interdisciplinary exploration and enterprise.
Microbiology
Potential LabHabitat area for interdisciplinary exploration and enterprise.
Fermentation
Potential LabHabitat area for interdisciplinary exploration and enterprise.
Agricultural technology
Potential LabHabitat area for interdisciplinary exploration and enterprise.
Controlled-environment agriculture
Potential LabHabitat area for interdisciplinary exploration and enterprise.
Food production
Potential LabHabitat area for interdisciplinary exploration and enterprise.
Food entrepreneurship
Potential LabHabitat area for interdisciplinary exploration and enterprise.
Sustainable food systems
Potential LabHabitat area for interdisciplinary exploration and enterprise.
Research Needs a Place to Happen.
Independent researchers, entrepreneurs, companies, students, engineers, scientists, and interdisciplinary teams can work alongside one another.
Engineering Turns Possibility Into Reality.
Mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, electronics, computer engineering, software, embedded systems, robotics, automation, telecommunications, IoT, artificial intelligence, computational systems, aerospace, space technologies, environmental systems, agricultural engineering and biomedical engineering.
Build the Company Around the Idea.
LabHabitat™ is designed not only for research but for commercialization. The ecosystem can connect research → prototype → fabrication → manufacturing → market → investment → growth.
Your Environment Should Work With You.
Imagine plants growing inside the building, research down the hall, a fabrication shop nearby, a startup upstairs, a café serving locally grown food, a laboratory developing tomorrow's technology, and entrepreneurs collaborating over dinner.
Bring Your Discipline. Find Your Community.
Researchers
A place to conduct multidisciplinary work and connect with complementary expertise.
Scientists
A collaborative environment outside traditional institutional silos.
Engineers
Access to people, tools, technologies, and real-world applications.
Entrepreneurs
A place to build companies while surrounded by technical capabilities.
Makers & Fabricators
A community where fabrication is part of the innovation process.
Independent Contractors
A professional ecosystem for productive collaboration.
Students
An environment where education meets experimentation.
Sponsors & Partners
A platform for supporting emerging technologies and entrepreneurs.
One Ecosystem. Many Enterprises.
The broader ecosystem incorporates LabHabitat Holdings, LabHabitat Association, Venture Studio / Incubator, Concierge Services, Real Estate Acquisition & Management, Instruments, Tools & Equipment, FinTech, Hospitality, SmartWalls™, Intellectual Asset Management, and Research & Development.
LabHabitat Holdings
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LabHabitat Association
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Venture Studio / Incubator
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Concierge Services
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Real Estate Acquisition & Management
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Instruments, Tools & Equipment
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FinTech
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Hospitality
Tap a node. Explore the connection.
SmartWalls™
Tap a node. Explore the connection.
Intellectual Asset Management
Tap a node. Explore the connection.
Research & Development
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The Future Is Already Being Designed.
Imagine buildings that are adaptive, modular, productive, green, intelligent, interconnected, research-enabled, food-producing, and fabrication-enabled.
Buildings that do not merely contain people. Buildings that enable them.
The Boundaries Are Intentionally Open.
Core Biological Sciences
Biology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Genetics, Genomics, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Developmental Biology, Evolutionary Biology, Ecology, Marine Biology, Botany (Plant Biology), Zoology (Animal Biology), Mycology (Fungi), Virology, Bacteriology, Parasitology
Health & Medical Sciences
Medicine, Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Pharmacology, Toxicology, Immunology, Epidemiology, Public Health, Nursing Science, Dentistry, Veterinary Medicine, Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Oncology (Cancer Biology)
Applied & Interdisciplinary Fields
Biotechnology, Biomedical Engineering, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Systems Biology, Synthetic Biology, Biostatistics, Agricultural Science, Food Science, Nutrition Science, Environmental Science, Conservation Biology, Astrobiology, Robotics, Embedded Systems, IoT, Electronics, Telecommunications, Aerospace, Space
Organizational & Behavioral
Psychology, Cognitive Science, Behavioral Science, Neurobiology, Ethology (Animal Behavior), Sociobiology
Emerging Areas
Proteomics, Metabolomics, Epigenetics, Stem Cell Biology, Regenerative Medicine, Personalized Medicine, Microbiome Research, CRISPR and Gene Editing
Research and activities involving people, animals, biological agents, medical procedures, or regulated materials would operate subject to applicable laws, professional standards, biosafety requirements, ethics requirements, and facility protocols.
