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facility should cater to all age groups.
In short, the winning project should be one that creates a place for discovery, open to
all, and which provides fertile ground for reflection, curiosity and participation. It
should be a place that invites both workers and visitors to live, hare and enjoy the
experience of being in such an interesting space.
The configuration of spaces must be capable of evolving with the technologies, the
questions and the progress of science.
The site should be landscaped so that at each stage of implementation, the link between
building(s) and land should be conceived of in an inviting and dramatic way that allows
for the interaction between the indoor and outdoor spaces in articulated way’s and
allows visitors to use pedestrian walkways to explore the landscaping. Such walkways
may be reduced or changed as more buildings are implemented and the complex grows
and densifies. The landscape design should also allow for functional uses such as
parking and service facilities.
The project design should create a set of buildings and spaces that must be inspiring
from the outside and motivating and exciting from the inside to visitor and resident
worker alike. It must be imbued with a particular vision of what search for knowledge
and the pursuit of science is all about.
That philosophy was articulated in the Brief for the competition, and the key elements
of that statement attached as an Annex to this report. (see Annex 1). The rules of the
competition specified four winners and four honorable mentions.
The Winning Projects:
First Prize: Project Number 026-XQ7439: