SANGO Blood Centre

offices, laboratories, donor centre
Location

Motstraat
Mechelen
Belgium

Year
2014
Surface area
8.475m²
Status
realized
Client
Sustainable Development Mechelen
Landscape design
  • Avantgarden
BREEAM-Outstanding certificate
Nearly Zero Energy Building: excellent
Photography
Filip Dujardin
Stijn Bollaert
Matthias Vanhoutteghem

The Blood Service of the Red Cross-Flanders handles the collection, testing, and supply of blood for use in hospitals. The Red Cross wants to centralize all its services concerning the collection, processing, storage, and distribution of blood in a new building beside its headquarters in Mechelen. With the new building, the Red Cross kicked off the redevelopment of the Ragheno site, an ambitious urban regeneration project on the former workshop grounds behind the railway station.

The project was the second building in Belgium to be awarded the BREEAM sustainability rating of ‘outstanding’.