The new building for the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) is located in Bellinzona in the Swiss canton of Ticino.
The IRB building consists of three floors, with large and transparent glass, without external interference. The curtain wall extends to the central triple-height atrium, which is the focal point of the project. Upper floors are clad with a state-of-the-art Closed Cavity Facade (CCF) developed by Gartner, and designed as a floor-to-ceiling unitized façade system over two floors. The large glass surfaces offer optimal requirements of today's modern research workplaces while maintaining the best climatic and building physics conditions all year round. On the other hand, the façade fulfills the ideal of approx. 50 dB, and has ideal properties for future research in the laboratories.