Expanding research and teaching capacity
The new Radcliffe Research Building will dramatically expand academic research and teaching space at Warneford Park from 3,700 m² to around 9,000 m².
This state‑of‑the‑art facility will house up to 600 University staff across two floors, designed to maximise interaction with clinicians and collaboration across academic disciplines.
The flexible design of the floor plates will allow laboratories and offices to adapt easily as research and teaching needs evolve. Spaces flooded with natural daylight will provide an exemplary working environment that actively fosters collaboration.
A building shaped by its setting and sustainability goals
The stepped façades are designed to convey, with quiet confidence, the scale and importance of the research undertaken within the building, while responding sensitively to the surrounding listed buildings and historic landscape.
They will create green external terraces, offering opportunities for staff to connect with nature and with colleagues. The building will be powered by a highly sustainable energy strategy, targeting Passivhaus standards.
Enabling multidisciplinary research at scale
The Radcliffe Research Building will bring together Oxford’s Department of Psychiatry with related disciplines, including psychology, neuroscience, neuroimaging, genetics, big data and epidemiology.
Brain health and mental illness remain among the final frontiers of medical knowledge. Their complexity demands collaboration between experts from diverse academic backgrounds, working together at scale.
This is what the Radcliffe Research Building is designed to enable — and to celebrate.