Description of the building
The five-floor LERCO building will be a modern facility for the scientific research centre of the Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Science of the University of Ostrava and University Hospital Ostrava.
The building will be divided into two main parts - a laboratory area and an administrative area. These two parts will be connected by a glass neck. The entrance to the laboratory area will be through a hygiene loop that will be repeated on the each building floor.
The laboratory part will be built of a simple cubic mass with windows oriented east-west.
The masses of the individual floors of the administrative area will be glazed and mutually recessed. Thanks to this, it creates a roof over the main entrance and a walkable green roof of the terraces at the same time. The highest technological floor will be offset along its entire perimeter from the rest of the building, which brings an optical reduction in the overall height of the building. The technological floor will be sheathed with a dark metallic panel covered by the installation of photovoltaic panels.
The administrative area will consist of an all-glass facade system to create maximum interaction with the surroundings. On the ground floor, the façade will be shielded by slats of perforated metal sheet in a metallic shade, and on the other floors by perforated corten sheet.
Facility management
The building will have five floors, and each of the floor will be adapted to its specific operation.
The first floor will be providing shared operations, which must be located on the ground floor. These are the imaging, cryobanking, laboratory cleaning, and technical areas of the building.
The second floor will primarily house biochemistry, biophysics, and virology laboratories.
The third floor will house laboratories and other areas of neurosurgery and pathology including pre-PCR, PCR, and post-PCR laboratories.
The fourth floor will house biomedical facilities, both general purpose and specialized laboratories such as cell culture and flow cytometry laboratories.
The highest fifth floor will be the technological floor, where there will be air handling units, heat pumps, electric boilers, lifts, and other technologies.
The southern administrative part of the building will consist of administrative facilities for the laboratory tract in the form of offices, meeting rooms, or an auditorium.
Surroundings of the building
As part of the construction, the main entrance area to the campus of the Faculty of Medicine will be designed as a central public space like a small square. It will serve as the community section of the campus of the Faculty of Medicine. It will include extensive landscaping, new parking areas, and new transport links for both pedestrian and passenger traffic.
Energy building
The building will meet the requirements with an almost zero energy building according to the relevant European regulations. Energy savings will be achieved especially by optimizing the envelope of building and using alternative energy sources. Ground/water and air/water heat pumps will be used to heat and cool the building, drawing energy from a total of 69 geothermal boreholes. As an energy source, more than 400 photovoltaic panels will also be installed on the building, both on the roof and on designated areas of the façade.
