实验楼设计出发点是建筑与景观的结合，主入口通向庭院。尽管办公空间与实验室仅限相关科研人员和工作人员进入，但庭院空间面向整个社区开放。实验楼所在的庭院是围合的，为整个园区服务的一层食堂通过连廊与园区其他建筑连接。
就实验室的设计，我们的对策是灵活开放的概念——实验室和非实验室空间被一系列“起居室”（公共空间）串联起来；钢筋混凝土的结构在中心处被打开，形成中庭的开放楼梯。中庭楼梯既是交通空间，又是带图书馆功能的休息、交流中心。
陶土瓦片用于建筑外立面，它既是建筑外墙的表皮又形成遮阳作用的百叶。建筑内装中多处使用层压竹板，一种可回收重复利用的天然材料。
诺华上海园区的总体规划由非常建筑设计完成。
The laboratory building itself is an integration of building and garden, with a main entrance opening up to an internal courtyard. While the office and lab space limit access to associated scientists and staffs, the courtyard space is open to the entire campus community. The laboratory building, along with a one story building that serves as restaurant for the entire campus and covered walkways, surrounds the landscape courtyard.
The result is a flexible open lab concept, where lab and non-lab spaces are integrated by a series of centralized ‘living rooms’ (communal spaces); the reinforced concrete building structure opens up in the center to form a centralized staircase, which acts as a communication hub and library spaces.
Terracotta tiles are used on the building exterior, as both the cladding of the wall panels and the louvered sun-shading device. Laminated bamboo panel is widely used internally, which is a recyclable natural material.