National Laboratory of Genomics / Ten Arquitectos

Architecture: TEN Arquitectos / Enrique Norten

Location: Irapuato, Guanajuato. Mexico

Client: National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity

Design Year: 2005-2007

Year Built: 2007-2010

Photos | Gordoa

Located in the Bajio, the breadbasket of Mexico, the National Laboratory of Genomics is an extension of the Institute of Agricultural Studies. The location and geology of the site, an empty field with a deep fissure below gave rise to the metaphor that defines the shape of the building: a registration line divides the program into the middle, with laboratories and administrative side auditorium space on the other, and also delineates public areas. This fault line was built as an intimate space that connects the various civic programs.

The construction project is located on an artificial topography level especially in a new field that shows the nature of the work within the institution. The laboratories are absorbed into the site, mostly as a series of terraces that modulate the transition between interior and exterior of laboratory and field. The architecture of holes cut into the landscape create patios isolated in good light in the building. Integrated laboratories provide private and secluded spaces for research and are isolated and easily controlled test environments. By contrast, administrative spaces and an auditorium affirm the presence of technical and social.

Transparency and accuracy of the facades are the landscape towards the construction itself, toward the building, but the contrast between the structure and environment to the death is a reminder of the role of architecture, engineering and high technology in the study of genomics. The effect almost camouflaged the entire project includes the construction and site care at the same time, gives an air of intrigue to the activities inside.

With an investment of two million pesos, the Mexicans opened this laboratory Conservation Genomics of the Directorate General of Zoos and Life of the Ministry of Environment.

It has equipment and scientific expertise in molecular techniques for the development of strategies to protect various animal species.

The objective of this lab is to create cutting-edge scientific knowledge to retrieve a large number of species of wildlife that are currently considered to have some kind of status, a species is a threatened species status, the danger of extinction, is rare and these species are studied.







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