Planed object is meant to serve not only as a science institute, but also as a place for conference and educational purpose. It is assumed to enable the full process of a technology development: establishing science and business collaboration, conceptual work in interdisciplinary teams, verification in modern laboratories, beginning of the production, presentation in the scientific community, commercialisation and finally public information in form of exhibition.
During the location choosing process, following features were particularly important: closeness of the intense urban tissue, proximity with industrial parts of the city, presence of the green spaces, and comfortable local and translocal communication. During the analysis I specified the locations, in which the City Development Strategy gives the possibility to locate the science park. One of them provided all required features. It was the area in the neighbourhood of the Warsaw Steelworks, close to the Subway station Młociny.
Basing on analysed psychology research results, I specified following features, which will have positive influence on work comfort and efficiency: opening the building on the greenery, intense natural lighting, and relationship between the activity of certain parts of brain and the celling hight in the interiors.
As the basis for the typology development I choose the monastery objects. They meet the features, about which I wrote. The different celling hight is taken from the basilica structure. Monasteries have also big amount of gardens and courtyards, basing of the medival Hortus Conclusus concept. They give a full privacy and feeling of safe separation from the loud and speeding external reality. Good natural ligting is good resolved in industry architecture. There is also a basilica type, but often with glazed celling.
In order to provide the safety and also the scientific secrets I set the access gradient which divides the building into four different access sections. In order to separate the production part from the office rooms I set the partition into loud and silent zone. Both gradations are perpendicular to each other, so there emerged a coordinate system. One axis of the system sets the level of the public access, second axis sets the level intensity of noise.
Main technical issue of the building are so called Clean Rooms, which are the rooms with controlled environmental conditions.
Main construction issue of the building are the central corridors going between the courtyards. Their construction is fully made of glass, elevations are also 100% glazed (including downspout). In result, whole central part of the building from entrance till the wall of the laboratory is completely transparent. It is metaphorical reference to the transparency of graphene.
