Brock University / Payette - ArchitectsAlliance

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Text description provided by the architects. This is a new 174,000 square foot Biosciences research facility at Brock University, also known as the Cairns Family Health and Bioscience Complex (CFHBC). The new building will provide state-of-the art research space for advancement in areas such as Cancer research, infectious diseases, biotechnology and green chemistry. The facility will also house much needed health science teaching space, expansion space for Child and Youth Studies, as well as a business incubator to foster collaboration between researchers and entrepreneurs. The lower level of the building will contain a Vivarium, an NMR suite, Photophysical Labs, and a mechanical utilities plant for serving this building, as well as future campus buildings. The top floor of the building houses a Bio-containment Level 3 Lab, as well as a greenhouse. In addition to this highly anticipated new program space for Brock, a satellite facility for McMaster University’s Medical School will be located on the ground floor of the new building. Such varied and unique programs, coupled with a large expanse of repetitive research lab space led to the massing concept of a rigorous “Lab Bar” floating over a series of sculptural programmatic “Objects.”