Ben Gurion University of the Negev is one of Israel’s leading universities in many groundbreaking global research fields.
These institutes are independent entities that are managed as separate units, each with its own special needs.
The program defines the areas required for the units that will be relocating and brings into consideration the anticipated size of each one, down to the research group level.
The program serves as a “floor area program” on the basis of which a master plan can be prepared in order to determine the location of the units that comprise the institutes and their deployment over the area.
The various needs of each of the institutes finds expression in the program, including: laboratories, hothouses and nurseries, animal cages, open areas for field crops, pilots, storerooms and preparation rooms, offices, researcher offices and student rooms, service units, worker welfare units, etc.
The information was collected through interviews and meetings with the heads of the institutes, department heads and some of the researchers themselves.