The ADORE Research & Diagnostic Centre (RDC ADORE) is part of Amsterdam UMC and will consist of offices and laboratories. This six-storey high-tech building will also contain a cleanroom: a conditioned, ultraclean environment with very high quality requirements which will be used for research into cancer and neurological disorders.
Meeting place
The building will invite users to exchange experiences and knowledge, with equipment and spaces being shared by oncological and neurological researchers. Patients, doctors and researchers will all be able to meet in the Atrium. These locations will provide a setting for cross-pollination, making it possible to look beyond the boundaries of individual disorders, roles and specialisms.
The building will be located in Zuidas, behind the academic hospital. The Atrium will connect RDC ADORE with the adjacent Imaging Centre, which was voted care building of the year in 2020.
Cross-pollination
RDC ADORE is designed around the concept that oncologists and neurologists will look beyond their own discipline and work together on new treatments against cancer and brain diseases. They will do this by teaming up with SMEs, the pharmaceutical sector and knowledge institutions such as Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the University of Amsterdam. This will be a bold new way of conducting medical scientific research. By bundling research involving cancer and brain diseases, and taking advantage of the similarities between these disciplines, it should be possible to make research breakthroughs more quickly. Cross-pollination between cancer researchers and neuroscientists should lead to new diagnostics and therapies that will be invaluable for those battling cancer or brain diseases. RDC ADORE will become a place where leading researchers feel at home and where collaboration is second nature.
Schedule
Preparatory work for construction was carried out in the spring of 2022. Construction work began in September 2022 and is expected to be completed at the end of 2024.
After the completion of RDC ADORE, researchers from the Amsterdam Cancer Centre will move into this building next to the A10, where the blue-red block will be demolished.
Realisation
Architect: Atelier PRO (ADORE Research & Diagnostic Centre) and Studio Hartzema (Atrium)
Contractor: Construction consortium MedicomZes-Kuijpers