The UCL Big Space project proposes to bring together a number of related key research groups under one roof, creating a new large-scale research facility.

Understanding human usage of space by tracking and observing their behaviours and interactions is the main activity in this research facility.

My proposal for the Big Space acknowledges the voyeuristic relationship between staff and visitors and reveals backstage operations to the visitor entering the facility.

The building is organised in 2 banks around a central delivery route, allowing vehicles to distribute to each individual space.

In the centre of this delivery route, a green island is created for recreational use and for future redevelopment.

A continuous skin wrapping around the investigation pods acts like a camouflage skin, mimicking the language of neighbouring buildings and revealing very little or none of the building’s identity.