JOHN CURTIN SCHOOL of MEDICAL RESEARCH, Australia

John Curtin School of Medical Research di The Australian National University adalah sebuah pusat penelitian utama biomedis di Australia, berbasis di Australian National University, Canberra. Sekolah ini didirikan pada tahun 1948, sebagai pengemban visi hadiah Nobel Australia Sir Howard Florey dan Perdana Menteri John Curtin. Gedung ini dirancang bertingkat rendah, bangunan interaktif bertujuan sebagai sarana penelitian gabungan. Ruang internal saling terhubung dengan tangga, atrium dan taman. Ruang berfungsi untuk meningkatkan interaksi sosial dan sirkulasi.

Keinginan untuk menafsirkan kaya variatif hasil arsitektur kontemporer melalui identifikasi tren khalayak, tema dan kecenderungan telah memberikan nilai untuk beberapa ketentuan yang agak sederhana tentang arsitektur di luar kota Australia tentunya. Tidak ada yang lebih beragam dibandingkan warna-warni yang menggambarkan dari pembagiani antara Sydney dan Melbourne dan konsekuensi aneh serta tangguh yang menggambarkan Sydney sebagai arsitek modern - kejam, diperbudak oleh empirisme dan ketertiban, dan rekan-rekan warga Melburne sebagai artis yang sengaja menghindari halus dan rasionalitas dalam mengejar pengaruh bentuk dan permukaan.Bangunan ini menyediakan ruang laboratorium yang dirancang secara fleksibel memungkinkan penelitian yang dilakukan dalam kelompok kecil atau tim gabungan besar. Kantor daerah untuk peneliti dan staf pendukung yang berdekatan dengan laboratorium memberikan kemudahan tempat kerja yang terpadu dan tinggi. Halaman depan ruang masuk dan ruang tunggu telah dipahami sebagai ruang publik baru untuk Universitas dan sebagai ruang pameran interaktif untuk Sekolah, mengingatkan dan mengungkapkan dunia sebagai pelopor yang memimpin penelitian.

Eksterior, panel kaca dan sirip logam tertutup dari serambi dilihat dua ruang tinggi menampilkan bingkai ke serambi dan menghubungkan ruang kerja dengan area publik. Panel beton digital yang diberikan pada eksterior bangunan mengekspresikan karya penelitian Sekolah di berbagai skala - dari skala manusia, dengan skala molekul ke representasi dikodifikasikan untai DNA. The John Curtin School of Medical Research at The Australian National University is a major biomedical research centre in Australia, based at the Australian National University, Canberra. The school was founded in 1948, as a result of the vision of Australian Nobel Laureate Sir Howard Florey and Prime Minister John Curtin. The Building is designed as a low-rise, interactive building for collaborative research. The internal spaces are interconnected with stairs, atria and landscaped spaces to promote social interaction and exchange.

A desire to interpret the rich miscellany of contemporary architectural production through the identification of common trends, themes and tendencies has given currency to some rather simplistic generalizations concerning the architectural output of particular Australian cities. None has been more colourfully portrayed than the alleged divide between Sydney and Melbourne and the curiously resilient corollary that depicts Sydney architects as pitiless modernists, enslaved by empiricism and order, and their Melburnian counterparts as wilful artistes who eschew subtlety and rationality in an indulgent pursuit of form and surface.

The building provides flexibly designed laboratory spaces allowing research to be undertaken in small groups or in large collaborative teams. Office areas for researchers and support staff are adjacent to the laboratories delivering a fully integrated and high amenity workplace. The entry forecourt and foyer space has been conceived as a new public space for the University and as an interactive exhibition space for the School, celebrating and revealing its world leading research work.

Externally, the glazed panels and metal clad fins of the double height foyer space frame views into the foyer displays and connect the workings of the School with the public realm.
Digitally rendered concrete panels on the building’s exterior express the research work of the School at various scales – from the scale of humankind, to the scale of the molecule to the codified representations of the DNA strand.

The building is reflective of new aspirations in the workplace – delivering an integrated, interactive building which allows researchers, students and visitors to interact in a range of formal and informal settings and fosters collaborative, team-based research.

The Nobel Prize-winning Peter Doherty conducted his award-winning research here, discovering the way T cells interact with the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) in antigen recognition.

Movie star Jackie Chan has made donations to the School, with the Director in 2006 announcing the Jackie Chan Science Centre will be named after him.
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