On the ground floor, you will first encounter the foyer. The foyer invites people to come into the building. It's a space with lots of natural light from which you can look into the building. Here, you will find the large open atrium and student rooms where users can meet. 

The teaching rooms, lecture rooms and study places are located on the first and second floors. The teaching rooms are flexible and multifunctional. All the rooms have sufficient daylight, which contributes to a healthy learning environment. The design encourages activity and is colourful. The layout and furnishings enable active learning. 

Although the study places differ in terms of atmosphere, appearance and experience, they clearly convey the function for which they are intended. A high-intensity study space creates an atmosphere in which it is clear from the outset that silence is required. All spaces must be comfortable and have a power socket.

‘The indoor greenery provides positive associations with well-being, health, relaxation and an optimal environment for work and for studying. Additionally, it contributes to a pleasant indoor climate by taking up humidity from the air. The central core fans out from storey to storey from the ground floor upwards, passing from the more sociable central zone to reach increasingly quiet spaces. Spaces for concentrated work in peace and privacy are located on the periphery. The structure provides a learning environment on every floor in which users feel fully at ease and can work in comfort.’  Heleen Verlinde, LAB42 interior project manager.

The meeting rooms, offices for SMEs and lounge areas where people can meet are located on the higher floors. LAB42 is constructed in such a way that each floor has have Discovery, Meeting and Concentration zones. There are coffee corners and common rooms and, the higher up you go, the greater the concentration of office spaces. The top floors of the building are reserved for the offices of the Informatics Institute and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation of the Faculty of Science. 

The office environment is designed for concentrated working. Comfortable, characterful spaces in a calm environment are conducive to this. You can come up with ideas or share information with each other on writable walls. Colleagues must be able to concentrate on their work without being interrupted by noise in the corridor or from the common rooms. Consequently, good acoustics are essential. Soft, warm materials help to achieve this. 

The ‘Meeting zone’, which can be used for both formal and informal meetings, also includes space for chatting over a coffee. The third area is a dynamic route between the two permanent zones. The emphasis here is on cross-pollination (Discovery) between the various disciplines.

The design pays particular attention to the design and layout of the common rooms. The common rooms facilitate meeting and a good atmosphere is conducive to this. Work groups were closely involved in the choices made during the design process, to ensure that the environment created meets everyone’s requirements. 

On the third floor there is room for co-creation. Here all users can meet each other, especially visitors and partners. Through a change in atmosphere it is clear that you are entering the zone of co-creation. The atmosphere can best be described as a combination of office and creative space. The businesslike and representative appearance of an office environment, combined with the creative side of entrepreneurship.