CERN Science Gateway — Meyrin
A facility devoted to education and science outreach.
The Science Gateway project gives CERN a facility devoted entirely to education, communication and outreach. While it links CERN's various buildings, it also aspires to connect with the wider community, in order to inspire new generations.
The building offers a space where the public can glimpse the science taking place in the particle accelerator, through hands-on educational activities and 1:1 scale reproductions of its main components. The project provides four exhibition rooms housed in the tubes, on either side of the walkway linking all parts of the building, which host permanent exhibitions; a laboratory area for children for teaching purposes; and a large 930-seat auditorium, fully modular and divisible.
Raised floors were preferred as a versatile solution to meet the requirements of the technical spaces and of the Explorer room, the main exhibition hall, where the system's inherent modularity will also accommodate future reconfigurations.
