COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE
At the Djavad Mowafaghian Center for Brain Health at the University of British Columbia campus in Vancouver, an in-lab collaboration zone was incorporated into the design.
treatment. Meanwhile, researchers are more engaged with patients and their clinical practitioner colleagues, enabling increased focus on the patient, their condition and their responses to treatment. Consequently, tailored therapies and precision medicine that is literally tailored to the genetic make up of a specific patient become more viable, with co-location supporting both the research needed to develop the treatment and the monitoring required to assess its success. Translational research facilities like
this must provide an environment that enhances integration and collaboration on three levels. Firstly they must be part of a wider strategy of campus cohesion that co-locates disciplines and enables the principles of translational research to thrive within the building and in the wider community. Secondly, they must provide an environment where creativity can flourish, allowing caring and curing to converge and intertwine, thereby delivering mutually informative insights focused on accelerated and improved patient outcomes. Finally, they must remove gaps and barriers for patients and their families, enabling practitioners to inspire and motivate patients through the direct and visible connection between their journey and the development of future treatments and improved outcomes. There is often an organic element of
co-location between universities and hospitals, but a successful translational research facility requires a much more deliberate and extensive approach. It also relies on an acceptance that there is a commercial element to developing new therapies, treatments, drugs and diagnostic tools. Therefore, there must be a development opportunity for medical, educational and commercial partners within a single location, connected by a public realm environment that enables both active (deliberate) and passive
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An active frontage enables the principles of translational research to thrive within the building and in the wider vicinity.
(incidental) opportunities for interaction. Consequently, master planning is
critical to the success of both the campus and individual facilities because it enables co-location and collaboration in both a macro and a granular sense. The development of large scale bio campuses in the UK is a clear demonstration that there is broad acceptance of the notion that combining disciplines, experience and public, private and third sector interests in a single location is of benefit to all.
Master planning Master planning major schemes provides an opportunity to consider the practicalities of co-ordinating different facilities as part of a whole and ensuring accessibility for both staff and patients. In
this way, support facilities, such as testing labs, can be built into the wider plan, along with elements such as cafés, retail outlets and gyms, where clinical and research partners can interact. It also enables the integration of education, research and treatment with facilities that help patients and their families learn about treatment pathways and the pivotal role of research to drive engagement and participation, along with STEM-based learning for future research and clinical practitioners. Enabling translational research
developments to become environments where creativity can flourish and genuine collaboration can take place is always a challenge, not least because it is no more possible to care for a patient in a lab than it is to carry out scientific research at the patient bedside. Therefore we must design buildings with a creative approach to the use of space and the circulation routes used to access those spaces. There must also be an
acknowledgement that not every element of the building can be translational; there are many activities that take place during the working day of the researcher and the clinical practitioner that are task- oriented and need to be in a task-specific location. However, by considering how those task-oriented environments are located and connected, we can encourage interaction on both a formal and an informal basis. Furthermore, careful consideration of the materiality of these environments can enable visual and ideological connections between spaces - and practitioners - even when practical considerations negate a physical connection. This leaves us with two major areas
Transparency of the building envelope connects research functions with other disciplines on campus.
of translational influence: the non- addressable spaces that are not allocated to task-specific activities and the circulation areas used to connect both addressable and non-addressable locations.
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