CIBEK
[Centro de Investigación Biomédica Esther Koplowitz]
The building
The CIBEK will become a new icon in the biomedical community in Barcelona. Its facade will convey modernity and vitality. Its inner structure will enable a constant adaptation to the changing priorities of biomedical research. The distribution of laboratories will be open plan to ease the communication between groups.
The center is being built in a plot of 3.000 square meters located in Roselló street (between Urgell and Villarroel streets). It will have 41 meters of facade and a building depth of 25 meters. The 2.000 square meters not occupied by the building have been transferred to the Ajuntament de Barcelona for its public use and will accommodate an urban park. The building will have a ground floor, a mezzanine and five floors for a total surface of 6.940 square meters, and three underground floors of 2.485 square meters each.
Distribution of spaces
The ground floor and the mezzanine will accommodate common spaces (cafeteria, lecture hall, security, concierge’s office, reception, management of CIBEK, IDIBAPS and Fundació Clínic, administrative support structures for the researchers, visitor’s reception, cloakroom, seminar rooms…). The undergound floor and the five floors will house research laboratories, laboratories for technological innovation and research support platforms (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, bioinformatics, cytometrics, cryopreservation). The basement floors 1 and 2 will accommodate a storage area and a car park.
