Key：Australia | chool

项目概况:

The La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science (LIMS) designed by Lyons is a major new building on La Trobe University’s Bundoora Campus. The $55m, 6 storey building will provide approximately 2700m² of learning space - both wet and dry labs - on the lower 3 levels, and 18 research labs on the upper floors. An integral part of the brief was for the project to have a ‘transformative’ effect in terms of the architecture and identity of the campus. A major stairway rises through the centre of the building, connecting the student and research levels – as a form of representation of the ‘pathway’. The cellular exterior of the building is derived from ideas about expressing the molecular research that is being undertaken within the building, and is adjusted via the materiality of the building itself. The walls are primarily precast concrete, with the cells providing a ‘lower’ and ‘upper’ window into the various spaces, aiding the penetration of daylight. The cellular concept also creates a framework for a number of distinctive spaces for students to occupy or for research staff to meet and collaborate. The lower levels of the building accommodate the undergraduate learning spaces – with large open flexible labs (accommodating teaching cohorts for 160 students) connected with ‘dry’ learning spaces. The upper three levels are research focused and based around a highly collaborative model. All laboratories are large open flexible spaces where teams are able to work together, located immediately adjacent to write-up spaces, allowing a very direct physical and visual connection between all research work areas.