GRAPHENE RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE IIC

by Saya Agha

The Graphene Research Institute combines two ideas, on the one hand it is interested in the possibility of expressing the idea of the space elevator in a symbolic built form, on the other hand it is conducting research into the possibilities of developing forms and materials (particulary Graphene) that can actually realise the space elevator as a working structure. You can see some of these experimental forms and materials in the family of elevator experiments that surround the research building and express the ambition of the institution to rise, as if effortlessly, into space.