Nature Meets Tech in Life Science R&D Lab Interiors

Life sciences R&D facilities operate on the cutting edge, where precision, technology, and controlled systems dominate. Yet the people working in these spaces need comfort, inspiration, and sensory richness to thrive. This session explores how to design environments that support both science and scientists' celebrating high tech systems while meeting human needs for texture, variation, meaning, and connection. Labs often emphasize equipment and function, while wellness depends on natural light, organic patterns, and moments of novelty. This presentation shares how Stanteca's multidisciplinary team bridged science and nature in creating a new Innovation Hub, translating scientific concepts into materials, lighting strategies, and spatial experiences' an approach refined through early collaboration, shared narrative, visualization tools, and full-scale mockups with partners from Bristol Myers Squibb and BN Builders.