Completed 1958

O'Neil Ford and Associates designed the first major semiconductor plant for Texas Instruments. The design of the plant was both highly original and technically advanced, and it has served as a model for later facilities of its type.

All technical services (air conditioning, electrical power, industrial gases and materials handling systems) were housed in an interstitial space. This service "floor-between-floors" was the first of its kind. Since then, the use of interstitial floors has become common in laboratory and hospital design.

Large spans on the laboratory and manufacturing floors were made possible through the use of thinshell concrete construction. These hyperbolic paraboloid shells were designed in conjunction with Felix Candela. Indirect ambient lighting was used in one of the earliest applications of ambient and task lighting. The spaces between the concrete paraboloids were filled with skylights in order to take advantage of daylight in the manufacturing areas.