HOK completes Glasgow University research centre

HOK has completed a 16,000sq m research facility at the University of Glasgow’s Gilmore Hill campus.

The Advanced Research Centre (ARC), which will eventually house around 500 academic and student researchers, is intended to be the centrepiece of the university’s grounds.

It comes as thegovernment’s levelling up white paperpromised to increase public investment in R&D outside the south east by at least 40% in the next eight years.

The white paper also announced the Glasgow-City Region will be the focus of one three new innovation accelerators that will see local businesses and researchers backed by £100m of new government funding to turbo-charge local growth, learning from the MIT-Greater Boston and Stanford-Silicon Valley models in the US. The others will be in in Greater Manchester and the West Midlands.

HOK said inspiration for the ARC building was drawn from the existing campus, the Gilmore Hill campus masterplan and surrounding historic buildings. It features a civic-scale frontage with varied terracotta panels and fins set within a cast stone frame.

研究人员、技术人员和研究生已经开始搬进来。他们将来自所有四个大学学院:社会科学、艺术、科学和工程、医学/兽医和生命科学。

This is the first time the university has attempted to co-locate such a diverse mix of interdisciplinary researchers in one facility, it said.

HOK科技地区负责人加里·克拉克(Gary Clark)说:“为了解决当今最大的挑战，大学必须融入当地社区，培养与工业界的联系以促进研究和创新，并鼓励来自不同背景的学生和教师之间的跨学科合作。”

“The Advanced Research Centre accomplishes these goals by combining informed design with the latest insights into problem-solving and teamwork.”

Andrew Tobin, University of Glasgow professor and director of the ARC, said: “Through the ARC we are attempting something disruptive and hugely exciting - an evolution in how we operate as a research-intensive university. The building has been specifically designed to support this ambition.”