Inside, the organisation of the building is straightforward. Its entrance, tucked below the north-west corner of the building, is an unobtrusive reminder of the fact that research does not rely on representation, but on the utmost discretion. This solitary building, with its simple form that has been reduced to a few terse design elements, was devised to have a calming effect on its heterogeneous environment and to form a new point of emphasis. The compact six-storey rectangular block of the biocatalysis lab building at the Graz University of Technology was designed as an ordering element in the urban structure.
