Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital
Prominent in views from Flemington Rd and Royal Park, the new RCH/MCRI Research Facility is a public affirmation of the Royal Children’s Hospital’s commitment to research of childhood diseases.
Completed in 2006, the additional eight stories over an existing two-storey wing of the hospital provides a flexible-use facility for research and development of Biotechnology initiatives arising from basic research programmes of the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, and facilities for the Australian Paediatric Clinical Trials Unit (APPRU). The building also houses a Cell Therapeutics Laboratory – laboratories designed to strict TGA/FDA standards for the preparation of clinical cell therapeutics. The top four levels house a Children’s Heart Centre, including research laboratories, and a Research Space for International Health and Public Health. The façade design allows flexibility of the internal fit-out. The window intervals allow varying modules of partitions without difficult junctions with glass. External sun-shading on the Flemington Road façade also provide for future flexibility for the installation of new lab spaces that must exclude direct sunlight from work surfaces.
