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The people and skills change and there are changes in social and environmental demands.This uncertainty drives a need for a combination of flexibility and adaptability..
The laboratory estate needs to be adaptable in order to be expanded, contracted, and/or repurposed without significant planning issues, cost, time and impact to ongoing operations.The spaces within the estate need to allow for flexibility in the location of people, processes and equipment, with changes, wherever possible, carried out without the need for engineering and construction.Finding the right balance is a critical factor..
Almost universal among participants in the discussion, was a concern about the sheer amount of data now generated in laboratories.This is one of the key drivers for smart systems, as the level of data already outstretches the human capability to examine, analyse, and make-sense of it.. Smart systems can provide a mechanism to inform decision making, but the sheer quantity and flow rate of new data also create practical problems.
Due to the data flow rate and a perceived lack of secure systems and protocols, WiFi is not used for laboratory instruments.
The need for wired ethernet and the development of CAT standards is driving larger service voids (bigger, more expensive lab buildings) which in turn restricts flexibility and adaptability..Northern Light floods through the central atrium of the new building, illuminating the work spaces and exhibition areas of artists, sculptors, jewellery makers, fashion designers and architects.
That people like these are drawn to the building is affirmation of everything the design set out to achieve.We caught up with the team who run the space as well as some of the residents to see why the space works so well for them.... KRISTI MINCHIN, GREAT WESTERN STUDIOS.
With only two metres separating the roof of the building from the A40 Westway and The Grand Union Canal only five meters from the walls of the building, the triangular structure of Great Western Studios is in a unique urban position.Partway between Notting Hill and Paddington in West London, the space was originally an old paint factory, which the owners enlisted award-winning architect, Bryden Wood, to turn into studio space for the artistic community back in 2009.