Communication

Abstract

Hence, in order to accomplish sustained economical viability of a building, design concepts have to be more than a simple response to the brief. Beyond the basic requirements for experimental and theoretical work, the architecture has to create an overall atmosphere of communication. It has to provide a special “communicative quality” by offering spaces where users can meet, by chance or as part of schedule. Globally, modern research buildings meet this requirement by a higher ratio of circulation areas and by improving the quality of circulation and lounge areas to serve as places of social interaction. These circulation areas can be used for spontaneous communication or scientific discussions, lectures, poster workshops, exhibitions spaces, and for increasingly socially relevant public relation work.