CERN's Planning and Construction: History and Inspirations
By studying the planning and construction history of the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), which is a typical representative of international large scientific devices, this paper digs deep into the professional research results in the world, tries to sort out and study the planning and construction history of CERN and the core vision of the future planning, and explores the inspiration and important reference significance of its planning and construction development from the perspective of planning and architecture.From the perspective of planning and architecture, we will explore the revelation and important reference significance of its planning and construction development to the current construction of large scientific devices in China.By studying the history of science and technology and the history of architecture, this paper divides the development history of CERN into four periods based on the construction of core large scientific devices, and analyzes and researches the planning development and architectural design features in different periods.(1) Synchrocyclotron-Proton Synchrotron period (1954—1970): during this period, the architects Rudolf Steiger and Peter Steiger led the initial planning and the main building, and it can be found that the core planning and building meet the requirements of advanced experimental technology with distinctive characteristics of modernism, and are influenced by Wright, Mies and other architectural masters; (2) Intersecting storage rings period (1971—1975): the addition of new big science devices guided the Merlin campus westward across the Swiss-French border, but the withdrawal of the architects led to a relatively unorganized construction of the campus and a further densification of the site texture; (3) Super Proton Synchrotron period (1976—1988): the construction of a giant underground gas pedal and diagonal construction of the Prevacid Campus on the circle.Initially, the Prevacid Campus is relatively simple, with office buildings, large assembly halls and auxiliary buildings such as power stations in the east in the shape of a cross, while the west and north have yet to be developed for use at a later stage; (4) Large Electron-Positron Collider- Large Hadron Collider period (1989—present): construction of the largest positive and negative electron gas pedal and collider ever built by mankind, while the construction of the United States gas pedal in the same period was halted; with the above two large scientific devices, physicists made important discoveries, such as the Higgs boson, at CERN, marking Europe's emergence as a center for basic physics research; new experimental and service facilities were built at CERN in the same period, and the functions of the various parks were gradually.In addition, CERN today also pays more attention to the environment and the image of the campus, inviting Piano to design and build the Science Gateway project; in conjunction with the "CERN Master Plan 2040", CERN, as one of the world's most advanced large-scale scientific installations, will explore the frontiers of urban and architectural sustainability, and will continue to contribute to the well-being of all mankind.
European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN)big science installationshistory of planning and constructionmaster planspublic buildings