Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
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External view with landscaped surroundings
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Development of a Grade II* listed estate to accommodate research facilities and an international centre for genome research and conferencing
The campus is divided into two sides. The north houses the conference facilities, with the research facilities and laboratories in the south.
The south campus is sub-divided into three modules, write-up, primary and secondary laboratory space, to allow for long-term flexibility. The L-shaped plan developed from the users desire for external elevations in the primary laboratory and write-up spaces. The main laboratory buildings are beam and slab construction.
Interaction between scientists is promoted through wide corridors allowing space to stand and talk. A hierarchy in meeting spaces has been developed through placing the tea/coffee rooms on the top floors, with bay-window seats creating meeting 'nodes'.
The north campus includes an auditorium, hall, residential and stable blocks. The restoration of the 18th-century building to house these facilities included a circular steel framed roof to the auditorium as well as structural timber for the residential blocks.
Data
- Completed: Mar 1997
- Sector: Industrial
- Procurement: JCT '87 Management & Construction contract
- Address: Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1RQ, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Sheppard Robson
- Client: The Wellcome Trust
- Project manager: Fuller Peiser
- Quantity surveyor: Wheeler Group
- Structural engineer: Oscar Faber Consulting Engineers
- Main contractor: Bovis Construction
- Landscape architect: Elizabeth Banks Associate
- M&E contractor: Oscar Faber Consulting Engineers
