The Oxagon Research and Innovation Campus (ORIC) was developed as a critical early-stage component of the NEOM future-cities masterplan along the Red Sea in Northwest Saudi Arabia. It is designed to be a central research and innovation incubator - a center of excellence for the development and scaling up of advanced clean-tech industries in the fields of manufacturing, green hydrogen, water, food, robotics AI, and construction. The campus will be a hub for technology commercialization, collaboration and co-working, ideation, knowledge diffusion and up-skilling. The project contains approximately 200,000 m2 of laboratory and workshop space in addition to sporting facilities, amenity and exhibition space. The design concept emerged from the interface between the meandering wadi coastline along the southern site edge and an urban industrial development planned to the north. Three V-shaped promontory buildings mirror the coastline, forming a visual and environmental frontage to the campus while providing channels for views and air movement into the public plazas between. These buildings contain flexible laboratory space, meeting and presentation spaces, theaters and several auxiliary amenities. Bounding the entire northern edge of the site are the tech spine buildings: a series of continuous, high-bay workspaces flanking a shaded pedestrian boulevard. The tech spine is designed as a modular repetitive system, providing maximum flexibility to accommodate both large and small-scale testing, prototyping fabrication. A series of PV-topped structures (e-trees) provide shade along the pedestrian street as part of a comprehensive passive climate strategy. The campus design was largely driven by an aggressive sustainability/carbon agenda. Through program reduction, low-carbon materials [including mass-timber framing], high efficiency building systems and various carbon reduction strategies, the design is targeted to achieve net-positive carbon by 2035. As part of Grimshaw's project leadership team, Matt's role extended from design and project/team management to carbon strategy, integration of advanced technologies, and procurement/construction methodology.