Education / Research / Laboratories
Institute of pharmacology and structural biology, Toulouse
Toulouse
1994-1999
The institute stretches out ‘like a line at ground level’ across a site of rolling fields.
Working with the gradients of the site, our design proposes the industrial rigour of a large floorplate – a shared area of laboratories fed by a technical gallery – and a community of private, individual research offices that are moored to a central 150m long axis, like a series of small houses, that have views over the surrounding protected landscape and its ancient trees. The whole is dominated by an administrative ‘control tower’ and by the library.
Institute of pharmacology and structural biology, Toulouse Toulouse 1994-1999