Five Institutes of the department of veterinary medicine at the Freie Universität Berlin will be moving into one combined Research Centre on the campus Düppel in Berlin-Zehlendorf. The institutions are working in the fields of virology, parasitology, tropical veterinary medicine, microbiology and animal epidemics, immunology and molecular biology as well as animal- and environmental hygiene. The centralization of the infectiology institutes into one building enables new synergetic effects at the combined use of the state-of-the-art laboratory facilities. The cooperation of research and teaching through spatial adjacencies of institutions develops joint areas of communication at the same time. Vertical timber fins create a rythm in the band of windows and the basement of the clearly structured brick facade. The building inserts itself harmonically into the suburban surrounding by conscious use of materials and its modest and compact cubage.
