Building 220 Biotech high-rise Building 220 is a new interpretation of the ‘DTU longhouse’, combining a highly specialized research centre with DTU’s university environment. Building 220 will house world-leading biosustainability research, and will be the new home for DTU Biosustain—Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability. The six-storey building, which boasts an area of 12,300 m2, will be the highest at DTU Lyngby Campus. The research centre will be centrally located next to the key Life Science and Bioengineering complex, and will include state-of-the art research laboratories for biotechnological research in addition to meeting and office facilities as well as common areas for DTU. Future-proof laboratories Building 220 is a specialized research building and a new interpretation of DTU's longhouses. The result is a six-storey splitlevel ‘longhouse’ with an open main thoroughfare, high open atriums, and secure GMO-class laboratories. Doors and hallways have been made extra wide to accommodate new research equipment that will keep the centre updated with the latest technology. When DTU designs highly specialized laboratory buildings, one of the challenges is to foresee researchers’ future needs in terms of research facilities. The building is therefore designed to be as flexible as possible, so that the furniture and layout can be easily changed and adapted to meet future research needs. Visibility and coherence In a larger context, the building is intended to serve as a framework and boost research for the centre’s more than 200 employees and partners. But as it is located in a densely built part of Quadrant 2, it will also become an integrated part of DTU’s common areas. The lower floor will function as an open interior thoroughfare connecting Kemitorvet and Søltoft Plads which can be used by students and staff. This is where the canteen and common areas are located, and as the building spans a landscape level change, it offers an interesting sense of space in the inner pedestrian thoroughfare. The administration and research facilities for DTU Biosustain—Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability are positioned on the upper floors. On arriving at the building from Kemitorvet, you step into the inner pedestrian thoroughfare and make visual contact with DTU Biosustain— Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability. Further along, you are led down a wide staircase which follows the landscape level and into the canteen. At the foot of the stairs, the building opens up to present a distinctive room with doubleheight floors and views of the research environment. About DTU Biosustain—Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability DTU Biosustain—Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability— is the world's first interdisciplinary research centre within biosustainability. With funding of DKK 1.1 billion for research donated by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, over the next ten years the centre will examine whether it is possible to transform chemical production from a petrochemical industry to a bio-based industry, and thus reduce man’s dependence on oil. FACTS Area: 12.300 m2 Budget: DKK 315 million Construction period: 2015-2016 Architects: Vilhelm Lauritzen Arkitekter Engineer: MOE Rådgivende Ingeniører Landscape: GHB Landskab Primary contractor: BAM Danmark 09/2015 Campus Development Transforming DTU 14
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