Building Design Partnership’s Health Sciences Building serves the University of Limerick by introducing a new aesthetic and establishing an experimental tone, writes Judith Hill

The purpose of a university is to educate the next generation and foster research. The means to this end is to create a community with a readily perceivable identity to which the members will be attached and outsiders inspired to join. One way of achieving this is to build, for buildings will shelter the community and provide for its purpose, and less tangibly, but no less importantly, they can define its character