PEARL Person-Environment-Activity Research Laboratory, UCL Architecture Photos, Architect
PEARL: Person-Environment-Activity Research Laboratory, UCL, London
8 February 2022
Location: London, England, UK
Design: Penoyre & Prasad

photograph © Timothy Soar
Penoyre & Prasad complete first-of-its-kind research lab to simulate the urban environment
? PEARL ? the Person-Environment-Activity Research Laboratory ? is UCL?s first projected net-zero carbon in-use building.
? PEARL is a new and unique research facility for the creation of full-sized environments to test how people use infrastructure and cities, with the goal of improving urban design, for a more accessible and sustainable future.
? Highly adaptable research and collaborative workspaces serve as a prototype for new post-Covid ways of working.
photograph © James Tye
PEARL Person-Environment-Activity Research Laboratory UCL Building
?A building to house the world?
Professor Nick Tyler, Director of UCL Centre for Transport Studies
London-based architecture practice Penoyre & Prasad has completed UCL?s unique research laboratory, PEARL. The research centre?s goal is to improve the built environment and the way we interact with it. Life-sized environments ? a railway station, high street, town square for example ? will be built under controlled conditions to examine how people of all abilities interact with their urban environment and each other.
This highly collaborative project ? bringing to...