The Karolinska Institute’s new laboratory building
By David Malone, Associate Editor
Biomedicum, the new laboratory building at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, unifies the institute’s research environments under one roof.
The nearly 700,000-sf, 11-story facility will feature flexible laboratory and office space meant to be a catalyst for collaboration between the various research and study environments. It comprises four connected buildings with laboratories built around an eight-story high atrium wrapped in a transparent double-shell façade.
Photo: Mark Hadden.
The building, located within the campus park, also brings the park inside its walls with a glass-covered green atrium. The atrium roof is a suspended ceiling with large dome-shaped lanterns that let in daylight. Above is a fully glazed roof that is easy to maintain and can be reached from a suspended ceiling.
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The transparent ground floor offers access to the atrium, a cafe, conference rooms, and a public exhibition space. The ground floor also forms new connections through the park to open up the Karolinska Institute towards both the city and the planned university hospital.
Biomedicum accommodates 1,600 researchers and staff and house the following departments:
– The Department of Cell and Molecular Biology
– The Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
– The Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology
– The Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics
– The Department of Neuroscience