BioCruces Institute HQ in Barakaldo, Basque Country Commercial Building, Northern Spanish Architecture
BioCruces Institute HQ in Barakaldo, Basque Country
26 Mar 2020
BioCruces Institute HQ Barakaldo
Design: IDOM
Location: Plaza de Cruces, 48903 Barakaldo, Basque Country, Spain
BioCruces is the Medical Research Institute of the Cruces Teaching Hospital, a healthcare reference within the Basque Country, with a solid history of teaching and research. Its goals include the promotion, cohesion and support of research groups that make up the Institute in order to develop quality translational research and promote effective innovation and collaboration with other entities.

Up until the construction of the new facility, the institute carried out its activity within the general services building of the Cruces hospital, also designed by IDOM. Part of its activity will continue to run there, aside from the new building, its purpose complementary to the main operation. The New Headquarters of the BioCruces Institute is a new-build building destined to house the research areas and animal facilities. The programme is distributed over 8 floors, 3 of which are basements. Above ground level, the floorplan is divided into two blocks of laboratories (North and South blocks), separated by a block of common areas on the East elevation and the communications core which is adjacent to the West façade.
The latter is the least attractive one from a usage point of view since running parallel to ...