Hardo Braun Livres

The significance of research and technology in today’s economies is undisputed and continues to grow. Designing buildings to accommodate a range of functions, from laboratory experiments through prototype development to presentation and marketing is an architectural field of great potential. Commissioned by universities, public institutes and private companies, the challenge is to reconcile security and accessibility, laboratories equipped with sensitive, state-ofthe-art instruments and facilities for theoretical research. Zoning, circulation and functional requirements, as well as the historical development and contemporary context of research building, are covered in the opening systematic chapters of this Design Manual. Following this some 70 built projects, largely from Europe, the USA and Asia, are analysed according to a variety of aspects such as urban integration and communications infrastructure. The authors, both from the internationally renowned Max Planck Society, and contributors draw on their own substantial practical expe rience of planning and building research facilities.

Planning, designing and realising buildings for new research assignments has been one of the undertakings of the Max Planck Society for decades. This volume explores current solutions by presenting more than 30 new buildings and projects. Construction projects include laboratories such as the synchrotron radiation source Bessy II in Berlin, international conference centres and the conversion of historic buildings such as the Biblioteca Hertziana in Rome by Juan Navarro Baldeweg. The buildings are commissioned by the Construction department of the Society and realised by many international architects including Heikkinen & Komonen, Henning Larsen, Brenner & Partner. This detailed documentation is completed with information on the use of laboratory and EDP technology, providing a reference work on building for science.