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Wellcome Genome Campus

The Wellcome Genome Campus is home to some of the world's foremost institutes and organisations in genomics and computational biology committed to delivering life-changing science with the reach, scale, and imagination to solve some of humanity's greatest challenges.

Development of a masterplan with outline planning consent to expand the existing 75,000 sqm Wellcome Genome Campus at Hinxton, South Cambridgeshire with a further 150,000 sqm of research buildings and 1,500 new homes for campus workers. Working with existing landscape features, the masterplan includes a restorative landscape design with flexible plots for research and life sciences buildings around a central green. An extensive design guide has been developed to ensure key aspirations are met while retaining flexibility for future demands.

Early works include extensive landscaping and two new bridges for pedestrians and cyclists. The bridges connect both sides of the campus across the busy A1301 and use the existing topography to enable ease of movement around the campus while at the same time concealing and reducing visible car parking at the heart of the scheme. The bridges, combined with serpentine walls on either side of the main road, signal the gateway to this significant new development – a modern, state-of-the-art campus with net zero carbon sustainable design at its heart, designed to compete with the best academic campuses internationally while remaining firmly rooted in the Cambridgeshire vernacular.

A development of WilkinsonEyre’s other design work for the Wellcome Trust, the scheme will include some public outreach facilities for science education including a new primary school.

Location
South Cambridgeshire, UK & Europe
Status
Active
Experience
Life Sciences
Masterplanning
Bridges
Education
Residential
Workplace
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