Campus

The campus is made up of five main buildings, covering a surface of roughly 30,000 square metres. We are right next to the Tree of Life and across from the area dedicated to the University of Milan campus.

Palazzo Italia: institutional headquarters hosting open space offices, meeting rooms and space for events.

Incubator labs: Human Technopole’s first experimental laboratories built in the area around the Tree of Life, next to Palazzo Italia. Of the three new buildings, two are built on two levels and are mainly dedicated to laboratory space. The third – on one level – hosts the support structure for HT’s CryoEM Unit, including two microscopes, a room for the preparation of samples and a microscope control room. Within the incubator there is space for over 130 “wet” workstations, including counter spaces for experimental researchers, support desks and laboratories, instrument rooms, cell cultures, core services (washing glassware, kitchen, warehouse, etc.) and office space.

North Pavilion: the building has undergone intense redevelopment work to transform into an adequate space for HT’s CyroEM and Light Microscopy Imaging services. It has support spaces for the preparation of samples and offices for the facilities’ managers. On the first floor it hosts an open space office setting with twenty desks for the staff of the Image Analysis services and support space for other facilities. The building has been adapted to meet the microscopes’ requirements which include reinforced floors to support the weight of the machines and stabilisation measures to ensure no tremors, vibrations or movements.

South Pavilion: it hosts experimental laboratories and other Human Technopole facilities. It also include additional office space.

South Building: the main building of the Human Technopole Campus. Once completed it will host laboratory space for up to 800 scientists, alongside offices, spaces for events, workshops and training courses. The winning project was awarded in April 2020 and the building will be completed by early 2026.

Our campus is built according to criteria of flexibility, durability, innovation and sustainability and is designed and developed in line with the spirit of openness that characterises Human Technopole.