Transparent Laboratory: Making Research Processes Visible

Design a research laboratory in the manner of Fumihiko Maki's Media Lab extension — a glass box in which the double-height labs are stacked around a central atrium and left visible from outside and from every floor, on the argument that seeing other people's unfinished work is the point of the building. Compose a taut curtain wall of clear and fritted glass panels in a fine aluminium grid, double-height laboratory volumes legible through the skin at several levels, an open atrium with bridges, equipment and prototypes visible inside, cool daylight with lit interiors, low three-quarter view, 24mm lens, architectural photography, ultra photorealistic, 8K