About Radlab Product Design company in Somerville, United States
During its ten year life Radlab occupied four distinct offices each marrying design and fabrication in progressively more succinct productive safe and interconnected ways. It began in a 400sf windowless 2nd floor room above a mechanic shop near Inman Square in Somerville MA. This small singular design space was organized and retrofitted to accommodate 3d printing and laser cutting. Thanks to the Great Recession at the close of 2008 Radlab was able to move into an industrial loft in the Seaport District. This second location priced very similarly to the first came with panoramic views of Boston Harbor dedicated rooms for specific kinds of machining and a generous open design studio. This was where Radlab first began to explore robotic arm fabrication and hosted courses for the Boston Architectural College and Wentworth Institute of Technology. When the buildings management was taken over by Millennium Partners Radlabs rent more than doubled and the firm was forced to move. The third location was much like the second. It was in the same building just closer to the ground floor and without sweeping views of the ocean. However the space was larger at around 2500sf and offered easier access to move materials and work in and out of the building. It was at this time that Radlab began to take on relatively large commissions and a wider range of product to building scale projects. Radlab continued to grow and within a couple of years began looking for a new home once again. In 2012 Radlab made its final move into Charlestown north of the Charles River. It was a grand space of about 3000sf a factory once owned by Priscilla of Boston an upscale wing of Davids Bridal. As part of a small collection of industrial buildings on Spice Street it was affectionately referred to by its address Two Spice.
Radlab remained a small privately owned design firm for the duration of its existence. It subscribed to the notion that its largely the care pleasure integrity and camaraderie embedded in the making of the work that propels designers closer to compelling built solutions. The work Radlab produced was ultimately intended to be experienced and enjoyed by people across a wide spectrum of cultures languages and traditions. Through its work the team at Radlab sought to embrace discover and elucidate a small part of the spectacular wonder of humanity. More than anything what made Radlab possible was the incredible people that participated in its inception growth and development.
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