Elaine W. Becherer Special to the Arizona Daily Star This is a story about telescopes, mirrors and innovation, but also about the overlooked buildings within our built environment that support and house the state-of-art technology that is transforming our community and changing the world.
People are also reading… Let’s pause to highlight a hidden gem within our city — the Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab — and see it through a new lens. In 1990, the lab’s rotating furnace was expanded to its current size, and a new wing was added to the facility to house two mirror polishing stations and a test tower. The new furnace was large enough to cast mirrors up to 8.4 meters in diameter, which also just happens to fit between the existing concrete structure of the stadium columns.
Adaptive reuse is sustainable designMaybe a creative use of the term in the real-estate world, but between the football stadium, lab, athletic training facility, and restaurant/club, this is truly a “mixed use” site. The Mirror Lab made the decision to leverage underutilized space on campus and build the lab within an existing structure which created project budget savings.
Thank you to Roger Angel, the lab’s founder and scientific director whose pioneering work continues to be done at the Mirror Lab today. From the beginning, he had a vision, and it has been consistently implemented, applied and supported to ultimately develop a key industry of our local economy. Curiosity is never-ending and I do not take for granted that I live next to our land grant university that is a campus of research, education and wonder, which happens daily for me when I stroll through campus.
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