the first four floors of this 10-story 476,000 square feet vertical campus, house the gates vascular institute, with the clinical and translational research center occupying the top half of the building. the facility’s structure and its engineering systems are based on the "universal grid," a minimally invasive approach to future modifications built into the building fabric intended to accommodate future changes. by adopting the universal grid approach, different spaces throughout the facility become capable of supporting a variety of functions.