Research Building Planning and Design

Research building is a very comprehensive architectural structure, andit must meet requirements on aspects of functional area, technicalequipment, economic cost and law, etc. They represent innovativemeans of production ż that is why the design of research building isalways changing.According to the recent changes in the field of scientific research,the challenges faced by research architecture are how to makethe high-tech equipments merged into the environment of bettercommunication and how to integrate the institution itself into theatmosphere of communication and interaction through design. Theformer strictly functional organisation is bound to be replaced by thebeneficial communication cycle.The book presents to us that technical improvements are notnecessarily the key point to the design of great research buildings. Thebest research buildings position the researchers as the most creativeagents in the process of scientific experiments. The building is not amachine which the scientists manipulate but a tool at the macroscopiclevel. Meanwhile it is also a cultural construction with collaborativecohesion and imaginative creation.