Building complex for the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens

The Foundation is comprised of Research Centres (Basic Research, Experimental Surgery, Clinical Research, Cancer and Autoimmune Diseases, Transplantation, Preventive Medicine, and Environmental Health) and other facilities (animal house, auditorium, library, administration, recreation, garage, etc.)  with a total built area of 26,000 sq.m. 

This large complex follows – as in the case of the Akrotiri campus building - the type of a cloister with strong external barriers and an internal triangle court with arcades. The exterior wall of the complex is characterized by its sandstone surface and the small openings, as opposed to the interior, which is marked by the large arcades of white marble.

There is a series of architectural manipulations in that complex, concerned mainly with the particular identity of each main part of the building complex, that is the library, the entrance and administration tower, and the three research wings as well as with the variety of the materials used, which make it the most expressionistic of all the buildings presented here.

Project Details
A. Kotsiopoulos with  (a) N. Arvanitopoulou, D. Daki, G. Horozoglou, V. Karalazos, E. Spartsi, (b) M. Papanikolaou, I. Sakellaridou, (c) Ph. Lambrinos, A. Economidou, (d) E. Zoumboulidou, A. Panou
Consultants: D. Demiri, S. Hatzikokkoli,
Civil engineers: P. Panagiotopoulos E. Koltsakis, K. Kontoyiannis, C. Bisbos, A. Mystakidis, O. Panagouli, I. Poulios, E. Sakellariadou, P. Zervas, G. Nikolaidis, E/M engineers: K. Bouzakis, A. Stergiannis, I. Tselepidis, collaborators K. Eustathiou, I. Tsiafis
Supervision: F. Karayiannis, M. Mini, D. Loukisis – E. Karayiannopoulos – T. Voudiclaris, I. Vasiliadis, D. Iliadakis, P. Kremezis
Construction: Michaniki S.A., K. Sarantopoulos S.A., AEGEK S.A. 
Construction project of supplementary spaces: Α. Kotsiopoulos, E. Zoumboulidou, A. Panou
Collaborator: E. Halkiopoulou,
Total built area: 26.000 sm
Project: 1991-93
Completed in 2002