BIOMEDICUM, KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE

The departments in Biomedicum are:

· The Department of Cell and Molecular Biology
· The Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
· The Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology
· The Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics
· The Department of Neuroscience.
Biomedicum includes a Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3)
laboratory is platform to develop research work
within the HIV field. It has been built for work with
microorganisms classified BSL-3, with potential
possibility of conversion to a BSL-4 unit.
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Boston Medical Center (BMC) is a 514-
bed academic medical center located in
Boston's historic South End, providing
medical care for infants, children, teens
and adults.
Project Description:
BioSquare II PDA No, 41A: Parcel F: a
research building containing
approximately 195,000 square feet known
as the National Emerging Infectious
Diseases Laboratories.
The National Biocontainment Laboratory
(NBL)
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Richards Medical Research Laboratory
–Louis I Khan
Richards Medical Research
Laboratory:

• Location - University Of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania.
• Built on-1965.
• Built by- Architect Louis I Khan.
• Architectural Style-Modern.
• Date-1957 To 1961.
• Building Type – Laboratories and Office
• Climate-Temprate.
• Context-Urban Campus.
 Richards Medical Research
Laboratory:
Introduction to the Building:

• The building is configured as a group of laboratory towers

with a central service tower.
• Brick Shafts hold the stairwells and air ducts. The building is
supported by the hidden steel frame.
• The building has the structure of the reinforced concrete as
the building is bearing the weight.
• The whole building is built with the techniques used in its
construction is the state of the art for reinforced concrete.
• The building helped to set new directions for modern
architecture.
• It was named the Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research
Laboratories Building in honor of a noted researcher and
former chairman of the Department of Pharmacology.
Richards Medical Research
Laboratory:
Aerial View of the Site:
Richards Medical Research
Laboratory:
Site Plan-
 Richards Medical Research
Laboratory:
Lower Floor Plan and Upper Floor
Plan :

Lower Floor Plan

Upper Floor Plan

Richards Medical Research
Laboratory:
Shafts:

Explanation of Shafts With

Respect to the Plan

Section of the Building

Richards Medical Research
Laboratory:

Elevation Drawing Section Drawing

Sketch of Section by Louis I Khan

Richards Medical Research
Laboratory:
Details of Towers:
1)Stair Towers

2)Service Towers

3)Air Intake

4)Central Service Block

5)Laboratory Towers
Construction Technique of
Richards Medical Research
Laboratory:

Basement Construction using Precast Concrete

Blocks

Joinery Details
Richards Medical Research
Laboratory:

Entry To The Building Concrete porch at the

Entrance
Richards Medical Research
Laboratory:

Natural Light provided Precast Concrete Slabs

inside the Stairwells
Richards Medical Research
Laboratory:
• Each laboratory tower has eight floors, each оf which іs а 45 foot square
that іs entirely free оf stairs, elevators and internal support columns.
• Each tower so supported by eight external columns that are attached tо
the four edges оf each floor at "third-point" locations, the two points on
each side that divide it іntо three equal parts.
• That placement resulted іn four column-free cantilevered corners оn each
floor, which Kahn filled with windows.
• The structure оf the Richards building іs composed оf 1019 prestressed
concrete columns, beams, trusses

CAR PARKING
MODEL
Richards Medical Research
Laboratory:
ARCHITECT LOUIS I KHAN
PHILOSOPIES:

• "Form is the realization of inseparable characteristics

• Form has no existence in material, shape or dimension
• To begin is the time of belief in Form
• When the work is completed the beginning must be felt
• A design is but a single spark out of Form
It is of material and has shape and dimension
• The form 'symphony' does not belong to the composer
His design, his composition does.“
• A building is like a human, an architect has the opportunity
of creating life. The way the knuckles and joints come
together make each hand interesting and beautiful. In a
building these details should not be put in a mitten and
hidden. Space is architectural when the evidence of how it is
made is seen and comprehended."