Barcelona Biomedical Research Park by Manel Brullet and Albert de Pineda
December 10th, 2008 - Posted in Architecture Building, Architecture Design
Architects: Manel Brullet & Albert de Pineda
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Project year: 2006
Client: Grup Agrupació Mutua, Ajuntament de Barcelona y el Consorci (Zona Franca de Barcelona)
Structural Engineer: Manuel Arguijo, Arq.
Artists: $42,35M Euro (US $54M)
Constructed Area: 55,000 sqm
On the 15th of May, twenty years after the inception of the project and five since building work began, the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (known as the PRBB in Spanish) was officially opened. It is a joint initiative undertaken by the Catalan government, Barcelona city council and Pompeu Fabra University. The new complex will be a campus dedicated to the intensive production of knowledge in biomedicine and health sciences as well as the transference of knowledge to industry in these sectors.
At midday around 900 guests, including research and administrative personnel from the five centres which make up the PRBB, followed the official celebrations in the PRBB auditorium which were also relayed to a giant screen located in the central patio of the new building.
PRBB building has a total surface of more than 55.000 m2 and is located at a 9000 m2 site at Barcelona’s seafront by the Barceloneta beach, between Hospital del Mar and Arts hotel in the Olympic Village. It is a 117×74 meters building of 9 floors above and 3 floors under ground with elliptical shape and a high level of functional polyvalence. The building project has been carried out by a team of two prestigious architects: Manel Brullet and Albert de Pineda, to create a building that adopts the specific objectives of PRBB.
For the internal arrangement, the space needs and scientific synergy opportunities have been taken into account. For example, GRIB (IMIM-UPF) and CEGEN (UPF-CRG) have their own space although by different institutions. Furthermore, the building is equipped with a computing infrastructure and advanced information technology facilities, has common and relational spaces, a modern auditorium and one of the most advanced animal facility from a technological viewpoint.
