National brain research centre, manesar, delhi
1999
Can our architecture contribute to a better research environment ?
Our vision was to create a functional research institute with an internationally unique image and an efficient and wonderful work environment.
As the research carried out here is on a biological organ, the organic form of the building avoids artificial sharp rectilinear corners. It is an effort to temper science with art. It is also an attempt at creating a symbiotic relationship between the man made and the natural.
The basic master plan has a linear movement pattern with a spinal road terminating at the focal most important laboratory complex. A huge symbolic sculpture of a brain comes as a pleasant surprise in the arrival plaza.
Even the ordinary passages in the building are made interesting and rewarding with the different framed views, planters and interaction space. The service nodes, vertical communication nodes, research labs and centrally common activities find appropriate places in the plan.