The design team outfitted the renovated space with large break areas, conference and huddle rooms, flexible teaming areas, updated workstations, and private offices. Monochromatic lockers add playful and accessible storage for a mobile workforce. A geometric patterned carpet unifies the space and reinforces FMI’s angular brand aesthetic, while other subtler carpet patterns break up the scale of the space.
From Chaos to Clarity
Foundation Medicine, Inc. (FMI) is a molecular information company dedicated to transforming cancer care. The company has a full suite of comprehensive genomic profiling equipment to identify the molecular alterations in a patient's cancer and match them with relevant treatment approaches based on these insights. Through its molecular information platform, FMI aims to improve day-to-day care for patients by serving the needs of clinicians, academic researchers, and drug developers to help advance the science of molecular medicine in cancer.
Foundation Medicine commissioned SMMA to provide architectural, interior design, graphic design, and MEP engineering services to renovate their space at 150 Second Street in Cambridge. SMMA assisted the client in expanding operations, increasing workspace, and amplifying its brand identity.
FMI completed a brand identity study, and consequently committed to a full brand refresh to create more consistent messaging and to further its storytelling. After reviewing their new brand standards SMMA saw this project as a perfect opportunity to amplify the client’s mission in a new way. FMI would be able to take its space standards and elevate them using bold environmental graphics from the refreshed branding materials, aligning perfectly with “The Relentless Pursuit of Better” that the brand identity study sought.